Graduate Teacher Program

Location: Melbourne | Western Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 17/02/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1459218

**Location Profile**:
Outstanding opportunity to work in a P.Y.P. School in Tarneit/Werribee.

Davis Creek Primary School is a new co-educational Prep to Year 6 that opened in 2020. Over this time, we have grown rapidly due to our positive reputation within our local community of Tarneit. We have rapidly grown from 253 students to over 900 students in 2024. Tarneit is a thriving multi-cultural community positioned only 25km from the CBD of Melbourne.

We are seeking an enthusiastic, positive, and passionate teacher to work as part of the school team and school community to contribute to our collaborative culture at our school.

We have an administration building including library, two learning community buildings and a Performing Arts and Physical Education (PAPE) building. These includes flexible collaborative learning spaces, explicit instruction glassed rooms, presentation spaces, quiet reading areas or small group nooks, specialist labs, games and construction settings and staff workspaces.

Davis Creek Primary School aims to build a school culture that demonstrates a strong belief in and a commitment to providing a rich and rigorous curriculum within a safe, secure and enriched learning environment for our children. We implement the Primary Years Programme as a rich, authentic, rigorous curriculum framework. Professional learning and training will be provided. We have a clear focus on catering for the diverse range of students at their point of need. Our core mission promotes a mindset of international mindedness, and provides a supportive, nurturing and challenging learning environment, with high expectations for student success. Our approach to wellbeing for all members of our community is aligned to our curriculum framework and we implement many practices from the Berry Street Education Model. Our school believes that relationships are the foundation of learning and life.

Another major feature of our school¿s curriculum is the development of a high-quality Music, STEM, Visual Arts, Mandarin and Sporting Program that fosters student¿s intellectual, social and physical development.

Balit Djerring-Stronger Together

We believe that together we will achieve more.

**Vision**

Davis Creek Primary School¿s vision is to nurture a creative and collaborative learning environment where teachers and students can;
- achieve beyond their goals and provide excellence in teaching and learning in a safe and supportive education environment
- flourish as caring individuals who display compassion and build positive relationships
- embrace challenges and take principled action, both locally and globally developing international mindedness
- be engaged, empowered and energised learners who demonstrate a high level of agency
- develop positive and genuine partnerships with the community.

**Mission**

Davis Creek Primary School¿s mission is to develop and support a successful and inclusive environment where all students actively participate in and assume ownership of their learning. Together we create a rigorous instructional program, which promotes globally minded, creative, curious, confident, and reflective lifelong learners.

**Values**

Davis Creek Primary School¿s values are based on the acronym of **C**urious, **_A_**_gency, _**_R_**_espect and _**_E_**_xcellence _C.A.R.E

Please visit our website to learn more about our school to ensure our school¿s philosophy is aligned to yours.

**Selection Criteria - Graduates**:
**SC1** Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.

**SC2** Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.

**SC3** Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.

**SC4** Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.

**Role - Graduates**:
The primary focus of the range 1 classroom teacher is on further developing skills and competencies to become an effective classroom practitioner with structured support and guidance from teacher