Vce/vm Leading Teacher Range 3, Start January 2025

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 26/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1438810

**Location Profile**:
**Noble Park Secondary College is a multicultural school with students speaking 48 languages, an SFO of.7788 and a SFOE index of.7022. 80% of students speak another language other than English at home with 72% of our student population born outside Australia.**

Noble Park Secondary College is currently in our fourth year of a new strategic plan (SSP) with our next Review scheduled for 2025. Our current SSP Student Achievement Goal is to achieve continuous improvement in the learning growth of each student. Our Student Engagement Focus is to improve engagement through increased authentic student agency in their learning. Our Student Wellbeing Goal is to develop resilient, self-confident aspirational learners.

Our student management structure is divided into Junior (Years 7-9) and Senior (Years 10-12) with a sub school leader each for Junior and Senior and year level coordinators at each year from 7-12. Our management structure is student centred with an emphasis on support, safety, and security. Attendance is checked each lesson with parents notified by SMS.

School Council endorses the wearing of compulsory school uniform.

All students at the College have their own personal device to ensure that they have access to the required use of technology necessary for 21st Century learning. These learning technologies enhance personalised individual learning tasks, assessment practices as well as increasing collaboration between students, teachers, and parents.

The College has introduced an ongoing reporting system through Compass, so that students and parents/ guardians can monitor student progress and assessment on a regular basis.

Student learning is maximized through extra-curricular activities in the areas of self-confidence, social skills, participation, and leadership through programs such as Peer Support, Year 11 Formal and Year 12 Valedictory celebrations, outdoor education camps, year level camps and a multicultural concert. In addition, the College has an established cultural exchange program with its sister school in Japan, Shinminato Senior High.

We continue to celebrate our traditional values and look forward to our exciting future to cater for the diverse needs of our students, with an emphasis upon understanding each student¿s current level of achievement, to ensure continual improvement and growth, academically, psychologically aa well as socially.

**Context**

Noble Park Secondary College is a Year 7-12 co-educational College which embraces the traditional values of:

- Respect
- Excellence
- Teamwork
- Responsibility
- Integrity

Our curriculum focuses upon value added growth in all Curriculum Areas with an emphasis upon understanding individual student achievement through a variety of assessment processes.

The College is proud of the connectedness of the students to the College which is enhanced with the strong relationship between staff and students and followed up with extensive co-curriculum programs to enhance student engagement and learning.

**Purpose**

At Noble Park Secondary College our purpose is to provide a nurturing, supportive and safe learning environment of all members of our community:
Every Teacher:

- Knows their students and how they learn.
- Plans for and implements effectively Teaching and Learning Practices.
- Demonstrates individual student growth.

Every Student:

- Works co-operatively with their teachers.
- Is actively involved in their learning growth.

**Key Improvement Strategies**

Our current School Strategic Plan focuses on:

- Student achievement, particularly for an increase in the percentages of students in the top two bands of achievement in the National Assessment Program
- Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN)
- Instructional and shared leadership
- Pathways and transition outcomes
- Student voice and agency in their learning

Our college has introduced a consistent instructional teaching model. Staff are aligned to the College's vision of this consistent teaching and learning model through professional learning teams demonstrating evidence through their performance development process in a collaborative and professional manner. Through this process staff are committed to meet A.I.P. targets and goals to continually improve student outcomes.

**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