High Ability, Gifted

**Overview**:
**Work type**:Full time

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist Range 3

**Occupation**: Teacher

**Location**: Melton

**Reference**: 1480611

**Location Profile**:
**Are you a passionate, positive and proactive teacher looking for an exciting Learning Specialist level position focussed on High Ability, Gifted & Talented Literacy Extension? Then we have the position for you**

Located on beautiful Wurundjeri Country, Strathtulloh Primary School has been educating with HEART since 2022. We are a brand-new state of the art school, located in the suburb of Strathtulloh. We opened in January 2022 with 710 students already growing to over 1350 students and employing over 150 staff.

Our students are phenomenal and eager learners who are beautifully behaved and respectful. We are supported by families and a community which really values and supports education and our school.

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) and Respectful Relationships (RR) feature strongly at our school, along with a culture that supports positive, proactive and passionate wellbeing and learning for students and staff. Our students, staff and community demonstrate outstanding positive behaviours and consistently work to demonstrate and build their #StrathtullohHEART.

We pride ourselves on being an inclusive and progressive school community. Our staff are our most valuable resource and we provide support & recognition accordingly. Our Coaching, Wellbeing and Principal Class teams are visible and working together with staff to support the best outcomes for students.

**Why work at Strathtulloh?**
- 5hrs non face to face time provided to full time teachers per week;
- Shared and supported planning of lessons each week;
- 3 meetings times a month allocated to meeting and connecting with parents/families (inside regular work hours);
- Reports with one paragraph of written comments, Parent Teacher Interviews held inside the 38hr work week;
- No requirements for communication outside 38hr work week;
- Co-Teaching Environment - you're not alone, you have the support, shared planning and camaraderie of a team;
- Flexible teaching spaces, NOT open plan, purpose built for our co-teaching explicit teaching approach;
- Free before & after school program for children of staff;
- A terrific team of staff who engage in a variety of social events and functions;
- Getting here is easy It's a 30 minute drive against traffic from Sunbury, Gisborne, the inner west or north of Melbourne and an hour from the eastern suburbs, Ballarat & Geelong. We're also only a short walk from the train station with plenty of seats heading away from the city.
- On site Cafe with great food and coffee

The Strathtulloh community are encouraged to be Helpful, Excelling, Accepting, Resilient and Trustworthy people as they demonstrate, support and strive for a #StrathtullohHEART

**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 particularly in high ability, gifted and talented literacy areas.

**SC2** Demonstrated expertise in the implementation and modelling of high impact teaching strategies that respond to student learning needs particularly in high ability, gifted and talented literacy areas. Demonstrated ability to support teachers to evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth particularly in high ability, gifted and talented literacy areas.

**SC3** Demonstrated exemplary ability to model the monitoring and assessment of student learning, particularly in high ability, gifted and talented literacy areas. 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.

**SC6**Demonstrated high-level expertise and knowledge with high ability, gifted and talented students. Proven record of building practice excellence in literacy teaching and learning. Demonstrated capacity to coach colleagues to become better teachers.

**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 l