Leading Teacher Range 3

Location: North West Region | Sunbury

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 26/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1450897

**Location Profile**:
Gisborne Secondary College is a large, stand alone, Year 7-12 College with an enrolment of just over 1000 students. Our large catchment area covers the Macedon Ranges, north-west of Melbourne. Over 70% of our students travel to school by bus and the College is an important social focal point for students from different towns of the region.

Our school has an incredibly strong pathways and transition program, supporting close to 70 VCE units of study each year, over 50 School-based Apprenticeship and Traineeships, and numerous VET programs. A comprehensive VCAL program operates, with excellent outcomes for the students involved.

We have also established an excellent reputation in the Performing Arts, a program supported by our superb Performing Arts Centre.

The College aims to ensure that individuals feel safe, secure and supported in their learning within a large cohort. We are seen by the community as having a strong focus on student wellbeing and have strong links to local support agencies.

Staff work together in Professional Learning Teams dedicated to building teacher capacity and improving student outcomes at all levels.

Other key features of the College include:

- A new instructional Framework developed by the College (LEARN), which includes a strong focus on evidence-based HITS.
- Year 7 and 8 Learning Centres
- A specific Year 9 Program designed to lift engagement and develop adult-like responsibilities
- A three-year Senior School Program that allows all students to accelerate across year levels, and ensures students are better prepared for the challenges of senior school qualifications.
- An extensive VET program, including: Building & Construction, Business, Engineering, Automotive, Creative Digital Media, Music Tech Production, Equine Studies, and Electrical Industry.
- A strong vocational program including access to School Based Apprenticeship and the HeadStart program.
- A strong careers development and pathways program
- A Double-court Gymnasium, in joint use with the Macedon Ranges Shire Council, valued at $4m
- The 216-seat Barcham Theatre housed within the new performing arts complex, refurbished at a cost of $1.3m.
- A 1:1 'Bring Your Own Device¿ Computer program that provides for computer connectivity for all students across all year levels.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.

**SC2** Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

**SC3** Demonstrated exemplary ability to monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. Demonstrated ability to support others in using data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated exemplary interpersonal and leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.

**Role**:
Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.

Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.

Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.

Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to