Leading Teacher Range 3

**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs

**Reference**:1483993

**Location Profile**:

- Ringwood Secondary College is located within the city of Maroondah, providing for students from nearly 50 feeder Primary Schools including substantial numbers from the local Primary Schools network. The college maintains its numbers at capacity which is currently 1500 students. This enables a guaranteed and viable curriculum for all students and a rich array of extracurricular programs and activities.
- We foster a learning community that caters for the development of the whole person, allowing them to flourish and reach their full potential. A balanced and viable curriculum of studies meets the varied learning needs of students. Most students choose a university placement as their preferred Year 12 destination.
- Our well developed house system is the basis for enabling opportunities for student leadership and participation and the delivery of our approaches to positive education and Bounce program.
- The College is proud to provide an educational environment that ensures that all students are valued and cared for. Students feel they are part of the school and can engage effectively in their learning and experience success. Every member of the college community has a right to fully participate in an education environment that is safe, supportive and inclusive. A culture of high expectations ensures that students are supported to achieve their educational potential and personal best in their learning.
- Ringwood Secondary College acknowledges that the behaviour of staff, parents, carers and students has an impact on our school community and culture. We acknowledge a shared responsibility to create a positive learning environment for the children and young people at our school.

**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.

**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 staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.
- Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.
- Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
- Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:
**DATA, ASSESSMENT AND REPORTING POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES**
- Lead and implement whole school improvement initiatives related to the school strategic plan and school priorities including the use of data to inform practice
- Model teaching practice commensurate with salary range and mentor/coach other teach