Learning Specialist: Learning Design and Data

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1448483

**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 improved achievement, engagement and wellbeing for students. The role of the Learning Specialist will be to model excellence in teaching and learning through demonstration lessons and, mentoring and coaching teachers in improving the skill, knowledge and effectiveness of the teaching workforce.

The Learning Specialist role is aimed at building excellence in teaching and learning within the Teaching Service.

**Responsibilities**:
In recognition of the importance of exemplary teaching practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key expectations of this Learning Specialist include but are not limited to:
¿ Demonstrating high-level expertise in teaching and learning practice;
¿ Provide a child safe environment in accordance with the child safe standards;
¿ Modelling exemplary classroom practice including through teaching demonstration lessons;
¿ Working with the school leadership team to develop a shared view of highly effective teacher practice;
¿ Leading and modelling the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery;
¿ Playing a key role in the provision of professional learning, including through developing processes and protocols for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration;
¿ Modelling effective learning practice and supporting teachers to seek, analyse and act on feedback on their practice;
¿ Providing evidence-based feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development;
¿ Providing expert advice about the content, processes and strategies that will shape individual and school professional learning;
¿ Supervising and training one or more pre service teachers, and mentoring and/or coaching teachers;
¿ Modelling exemplary use of student data to inform teaching approaches;
¿ Developing and promoting school-wide professional learning structures, processes and protocols through Professional Learning Communities;
¿ Modelling exemplary professional learning practice including through seeking feedback from other teachers and leaders on their own classroom practice as part of critical reflection and inquiry to improve practice

The Learning Specialist: Learning Design and Data will support colleagues to deepen their data literacy skills and importantly to assist colleagues to measure the impact of their pedagogical practices on student learning. The Learning Specialist will also support the Leadership Team to use data to drive school improvement initiatives and to assist colleagues tailor these initiatives to support the diverse needs of their cohorts.

Specific Position Responsibilities:
1. Take a leading role in building teacher capacity to understand and use data to improve student learning performance.

¿ Work with PLC leaders and instructional coaches to embed the PLC initiative, including providing support in identifying, collating and analysing student learning data sets to best measure the impact of their