Maths / Science Teacher-secondary fixed Term with

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 23/01/2026

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1452525

**Location Profile**:
**An Outstanding Opportunity To Work In A **PPP** School**

**Offering State-Of-The-Art facilities**

**This is a fixed term position with the opportunity for it to translate to Ongoing**

Featherbrook P - 9 College is located in Point Cook, adjacent to the Featherbrook Community Centre. The school opened in term 1, 2017. The school has been constructed through a Public Private Partnership which supports an optimal learning environment as well as enrichment of curriculum programs through partnering with the YMCA and CERES. The school also includes a Community Hub which includes the provision of an outside school hour’s program managed by the YMCA and facilities which will support other community programs for local families.

The facilities have been designed to:

- Provide contemporary learning neighbourhoods that facilitate learning and learner-centred opportunities for all students, regardless of learning needs, through flexible spaces and responsive programs;
- Support digital technology enriched learning
- Support contemporary collaborative learning and teaching for teacher practitioners;
- Promote inclusion, access and choice for all learners;
- Promote environmental sustainability principles;
- Support a sense of community and belonging within the school and wider community.

**A Contemporary Education**

The school offers a progressive approach to educating students from Prep - Year 9. The school leadership team and teachers are purposeful in providing optimal learning experiences for each and every student and as such, provide all children with learning that is personalised, evidence-based and technologically rich. Our students enjoy and are engaged in a broad and differentiated curriculum promoting creativity, resilience and a growth mindset drawing on their sense of curiosity. STEM, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Camps, Sports and Physical Education provide students with diverse learning opportunities. Digital Technologies enhances and enriches learning opportunities and engagement for students. The strengths, talents and learning styles of each student are harnessed and celebrated. As a State Government school, our teachers draw from the best available education resources, knowledge and expertise from across the education system.

**Curriculum**

Featherbrook P - 9 College delivers the mandated Victorian Curriculum and learning takes place in an environment that is conducive to preparing children for a rapidly changing world that demands technological capacity and knowledge, heightened interpersonal skills, critical thinking and problem solving skills, plus strong literacy and numeracy skills. Our students learn and excel in flexible, purposely built learning spaces that support and inform responsive and innovative learning and teaching. Our programs are enriched through our partnership with the YMCA eg student leadership and camping programs, while CERES informs our learning programs as we seek to become a 5 star sustainability school, supporting our students to become socially and environmentally literate, aware and responsible. The learning spaces facilitate students’ engagement through collaborative structures and groupings.

Professionalism, instructional capacity and accountability of our teachers is foundational to the education our students receive. Teacher quality is crucial for optimal student achievement and so our energies are strategically directed towards coaching and capacity building of our teaching staff. High expectations of our students underpin the rich learning tasks and challenges provided for all students as they are supported to achieve and thrive. The following are enablers of Featherbrook College’s education provision:

- Collaboration and knowledge sharing
- High expectations for self and others
- Respect, inclusiveness and trust Safe and secure learning environment.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated experience in responding to student learning needs.

**SC2** Demonstrated experience in planning for and implementing high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluating the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

**SC3** Demonstrated experience in monitoring and assessing student learning. Demonstrated experience in using data to inform teaching practice and providing feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school c