Learning Specialist Range 3

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 27/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1443501

**Location Profile**:
Our school vision
- 'Nurturing Our Future¿
- is underpinned by four core values of improvement and connection: respect, responsibility, excellence, and inclusion.

This vision is the underlying premise upon which all teaching and learning at our school are based. We do this by ensuring the needs of the students academically, socially, and emotionally, are the basis of all our energies. We grow the voice, agency, and development of our learners through intentional practices and support.

The core disciplines of Literacy, Numeracy, Science, and Digital Technology are integrated with other capabilities. At Newport Gardens we strive to develop independent thinkers and creative problem solvers. Our students develop strong intra and inter-personal skills to communicate face to face, electronically or virtually by knowing themselves well and by understanding others. At Newport Gardens Primary School, we are committed to understanding our environment and reducing the negative impact we have upon it on by thinking globally and acting locally.

Our educators and learners work within learning communities whereby teaching teams take collective responsibility for the overall development of our students.

Our school site was established in 2011 after the merge of two local school communities. School facilities, which were built through a combination of Federal grants through the Building the Education Revolution program, and State Government funding, resulted in a complete rebuild of the school in 2011. These facilities provide the school with a fully functioning library, art room with kiln, administration block including offices, conference and meeting rooms, gymnasium, stage, kitchen and garden, science lab as well as 17 permanent classrooms and 9 portable classrooms. Our main building supports collaborative spaces through shared neighbourhoods used for withdrawal groups, social thinking groups and our school library.

Newport Gardens Primary School supports 555 learners from Prep to Year 6. Our staff, comprising 24 classes and 6 specialist teachers, 5 classroom-based Education Support Staff and our School Improvement Team.

We place a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy, as well as incorporating ICT across all grade levels. We offer a range of specialist programs including Creative Arts, Physical Education, LOTE
- (Japanese). Students also have the opportunity to participate in instrumental music and a variety of sporting teams, a school concert, art show and other school performances. We are also a partner school for Respectful Relationships.

As a School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support school we implement a framework that brings together our school community in developing a positive, safe and supportive learning culture. This approach enables us to improve the social, emotional, behavioural, and academic outcomes for our students while utilising a common approach, expectations, and language.

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practice, including the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum, and implement school priorities.

**SC2** Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and modelling 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 model the monitoring and assessment of student learning. 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 communication skills. Demonstrated ability to engage in collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated ability to support others to reflect on their practice and facilitate school-based professional learning.

**Role**:
Learning Specialists will be highly skilled classroom practitioners who continue to spend the majority of their time in the classroom delivering high-quality teaching and learning and have a range of responsibilities related to their expertise, including teaching demonstration lessons, observing and providing feedback to other teachers and facilitating school-based professional learning. Learning Specialists are expected to have deep knowledge and expertise in high quality teaching and learning in delivering impr