Leading Teacher

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 25/01/2027

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1439596

**Location Profile**:
Coolaroo South Primary School and Kindergarten is situated in a well-defined residential area in the City of Hume. The school is in a comprehensive community recreational precinct with proximity to a range of local facilities including public transport. Along with Foundation to Year 6 programs, Coolaroo South also facilitates a playgroup through our community hub. Our 3 and 4-year-old Kindergarten programs are managed by Northern Schools Early Years Cluster. The school has excellent facilities with 13 well-resourced classrooms along with staff offices and spaces to allow for small teaching groups.

This year the school has an enrolment of 270. Its 49 staff include 2 principal class, 21 teaching staff and 26 ES staff. The SFO Index is 0.79 and its SFOE Index is 0.6. The school's community draws from a wide range of cultural backgrounds. It has a very high proportion of families from disadvantaged backgrounds and generally, very high numbers of newly arrived EAL learners.

Coolaroo South Primary School has spent time and energy in developing strategies, processes and procedures that not only improve student learning but provide a safe and efficient working environment. The school is a Respectful Relationships partner school and is focussed on developing socially competent students who are aware of their responsibilities in the wider community. The school also works hard to build positive relationships with all families ensuring they feel safe and supported.

Coolaroo South Primary prides itself on its commitment to improving student achievement by offering all students a challenging academic program devised to meet their individual needs. All teaching teams implement inquiry cycles using the Professional Learning Communities (PLC) and the Extending Mathematical Understanding (EMU F-2) intervention model.

The schools aims to connect all members of the community to learning and through its community hub, engages parents in a range of courses and programs preparing them for life in Australia.

The school is organised into single classes whenever possible. It provides instruction in Physical Education, Visual and Performing Arts, Science, STEM. The school offers weekly Arabic immersion classes to mother tongue students for years 2 - 6.

Student wellbeing continues to be a high priority for staff. The school employs the equivalent of 1 EFT speech therapists who provide phonological work alongside teachers as well as individual clinical work for PSD students. A Play Therapist and student counsellor are employed to work individually with students experiencing social, emotional and behavioural challenges. All staff are trained in Berry Street (trauma informed practice) ensuring consistent implementation of these strategies.

**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.

SC6 Demonstrated ability to lead Professional Learning, liaise with Allied Health and coach staff to ensure reasonable adjustments are in place for students.

**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