Leading Teacher

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

**Salary**:Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher Range 3

**Occupation**: Education and Training

**Location**: Koo Wee Rup

**Reference**: 1468107

**Location Profile**:
Tooradin Primary School is located 17 kilometres east of Cranbourne on the South Gippsland Highway in a semi-rural area. The township is situated on Westernport Bay. The school was founded in 1875 and moved into new school buildings in 2004.

The current enrolment is 289 students. The students are drawn not only from Tooradin, but also the coastal villages of Blind Bight, Warneet and Cannon¿s Creek.

Tooradin Primary has a strong values and social skills program. The school values of Respect, Responsibility, Teamwork, and Care, encourage and support a positive learning program in a safe and caring environment.

Throughout the school, classes are grouped according to Victorian Curriculum levels with teachers working together for curriculum planning and professional development. Classes are organised depending on the numbers of children at each level, gender balance, maintaining friendship groups and ensuring that there is equal distribution of ability throughout the grades. Usually classes are straight groups which encourage and enhance individual achievement and social development.

The school has a strong focus on student wellbeing and teaches a social skills program which is consistently implemented across the school. The behaviour of the students both in class and in the playgrounds reflects the consistent approach to discipline and high expectations of the school. The development of leadership skills in senior students is encouraged and their input into the tone of the school is important.

Many enrichment opportunities are offered, some of which are choir, school concert, interschool sports, sporting clinics, camps and excursions.

In striving for continuous improvement, Tooradin Primary School is committed to maximising educational opportunities for all students, with staff professional development playing a vital role in achieving this.

We continually seek to maintain the school vision of one where students are offered a high quality education in a supportive learning environment.

**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.

**SC6** Demonstrated high-level knowledge and exemplary skills to promote and facilitate inclusive education for students with diverse learning needs through the implementation of the Disability Inclusion Initiative.

**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 influ