Leading Teacher: Student Leadership

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs

**Reference**:1487704

**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 teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
- Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:
**Student Leadership**:

- Develop and regularly review the LSC Student Leadership structure, including having clear and documented role descriptions for each role
- Create multiple opportunities for student leadership groups to plan, run and reflect on activities to ensure their leadership is visible and valued by the community
- Facilitate the operation of the LSC Peer Support Program as a part of the LSC Transition Team, including collaboration with Sub School teams to schedule sessions for Year 7 students
- Develop and run leadership training sessions for all student leadership roles
- Meet with student leadership teams (College Captains, House Leaders, SRC) regularly to support students to develop and implement their own student-led action plans for positive school improvement
- Support student leaders to take more active roles in leading year level/Sub School assemblies e.g. MC, reports
- Establish and foster links for students to positively engage with the school and wider community, including opportunities to build/use their voice and leadership skills e.g. RSL, local businesses, MPs
- Develop a House structure that is documented and includes House point scoring systems, events and activities
- Lead an active House structure, including varied opportunities to participate and build pride and participation (House pride at carnivals, House days, fortnightly House competitions)

**Engagement - Student Voice and Agency**:

- Plan and lead termly student forums, including an AIP priority forum (Years 7 to 12), as well as targeted year-level or cohort forums based on AToSS or other selected data
- Collate, prepare and present data from student voice forums to relevant stakeholders (students, staff, parents/carers)
- Lead the implementation of twice-annual PIVOT surveys to gather student voice in learning
- Develop and lead staff professional learning to analyse and interpret AToSS, student forum and/or PIVOT results, as well as plan strategies to respond to the data
- Prepare summaries of data and key le