Secondary Teacher

**Posted**:
09/05/2025

**Closing Date**:
30/01/2026

**Job Type**:
Permanent - Full Time

**Location**:
Brookfield

**Job Category**:
Secondary Teaching
- Job Description

**MELTON CHRISTIAN COLLEGE**
**Secondary Teacher**

**How the Position fits within the overall Teaching Team**

Each Secondary Teacher is one member of a team of Teachers who prepare and deliver MCC’s curriculum and programs with enthusiasm and passion to engage students with learning and achieve specific student outcomes. MCC Teachers support each other’s effectiveness. Secondary Teachers report to their respective Level Coordinator, Faculty Team Leaders, and Head of Secondary. It is an inherent requirement that MCC Teachers be fully committed to the ethos of MCC and be role models for students through a life of Christian service.

**Main Objectives of Role**:

- To love students, to love teaching, and to love helping students learn.
- To build a learning culture around the College’s core values: Christ-centredness, Community, Respect, Excellence, and Passion for Teaching and Learning
- To fulfill the inherent requirement of Christian education to teach and model Christian lifestyle and values in every area of the operation of the College, not only in instructional teaching.

**Teachers are responsible for**:

- Their own professionalism in
- Curriculum knowledge and excellent pedagogy including Christ-centred teaching
- Professional reputation including the values of the College.
- The learning, progress, behaviour, welfare, and management of their students
- Establishing and maintaining successful partnership and liaison between school and home
- Planning, teaching, assessing, and reporting on student progress.
- The tone and tenor of their classes: student behaviour, wearing a uniform, attending assemblies, participation in events, inter-student communication, and conflict resolution.
- Communicating effectively, considerately, and constructively with staff, students, and families to enhance the reputation of the College and increase goal alignment.
- A Biblically, God-honouring model of teaching, behaviour, and lifestyle in all aspects of College life

**Specific Activities and Duties**:
**1 - Regarding Teaching and Students**:

- Accurately recording student attendance as required.
- Actively identifying weaknesses in student learning and implementing improvement strategies, and identifying and providing for students with special needs
- Enforcing school uniform policies
- Implementing Christ-centred classroom and management practices
- Making excellence desirable among the students
- Providing pastoral care for their students, and supporting any new students through orientation
- Recording and reporting student performance accurately and considerately
- Responding to parent concerns in such a way that win-win outcomes are achieved.
- Setting homework according to College protocol
- Staying free from bias or favouritism
- Teaching, speaking, and acting in a way that inspires students to love learning.
- Competently using a range of methods, practices, and resources to engage students effectively.

**2 - Regarding Teaching and Curriculum**
- Excellent teaching from a Christian perspective
- Initiating and participating in co-curricular activities to enhance the students’ learning.
- Maintaining excellent knowledge of curriculum to communicate accurately to parents and students.
- Participating in developing a distinctively Christ-centred curriculum for the College
- Preparing and delivering high-standard teaching programs which reflect best educational practices.
- Preparing excellent short and long-term documented curriculum plans.

**3 - Regarding Wider**Responsibilities**
- Attending and participating in scheduled meetings including year-level, staff-team, and other meetings
- Working both independently, and collaboratively as part of a team
- Intentionally support Colleagues, Level Coordinators, Faculty Team Leaders and Head of Secondary
- Ordering materials required within budget limitations and assisting with budget preparations.
- Participating and planning co-curricular activities; including camps and excursions, parent information sessions, orientation programs, Open Days, tutoring, and other special events
- Participating in all professional development activities arranged by the College.
- Positively influencing the morale of staff and students
- Supporting and implementing College policies, protocols, and procedures
- Taking personal responsibility to improve their own professionalism, including professional knowledge.
- The teacher is a professional colleague who is expected to protect the reputation of other staff, share in the responsibilities and duties of all staff, and cooperate with other staff to implement College values.

**4 - Regarding**Responsibilities of**Teachers who work in a Specialist area with Specialised Rooms or Equipment**

(e.g.: PE, Music, Science, Art, Technology)
- Develop plans and make recommen