Learning Specialist 3

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3

**Occupation**:Learning specialist

**Location**:Melbourne - Southern suburbs

**Reference**:1486626

**Location Profile**:

- Somerville Rise Primary School is located on the Mornington Peninsula approximately 10 kilometres southeast of Frankston. The school was officially opened in 1995 on the corner of Worwong Avenue and Graf Road Somerville.
- Somerville Rise has attractive open spaces with extensive indoor and outdoor areas that provide ample opportunities for children to play and learn. The school has four asphalt basketball / netball courts, two adventure playgrounds, leafy courtyards, a sensory garden, a barn and a large, grassed oval.
- Somerville Rise Primary school is part of a large educational precinct. The school shares a boundary with Somerville Secondary College and the Yumarrala Wetlands Reserve. Adjacent to our school is the Tillerkite Pre-School which has strong connections with our school community.
- Somerville Rise Primary School currently has a confirmed enrolment of 155 students enrolled across Foundation to Year Six. The workforce consists of:

- 2.0 Principal Class
- 0.8 FTE Learning Specialist
- 9.99 Classroom Teachers
- 1.0 FTE Business Manager
- 1.47 FTE Office Staff
- 0.4 FTE Maintenance
- 4.69 FTE Integration Staff

**20.35 FTE Staff**

**Somerville Rise Primary School Mission**:

- Empowering ALL students to be their best

**Somerville Rise Primary School Vision**:

- Somerville Rise Primary School delivers a high quality, differentiated curriculum using evidence-based teaching and learning practices. We develop and support student relationships and wellbeing to increase engagement and develop active, inclusive members of our community.

**Somerville Rise Primary School Motto**:

- Keep your eyes on Somie Rise

**Somerville Rise Primary School Values**:

- The Somerville Rise School community has developed a set of core values which underpin our relational learning philosophy.
- These values are:

- KINDNESS
- CURIOSITY
- CREATIVITY
- Somerville Rise Primary School is committed to using current evidence-based approaches to assist our students in becoming positive and active members of our community. As a school we pride ourselves on creating warm and welcoming learning environments where students are at the centre of everything we do, empowering all students to be their best

**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.

**SC6**Demonstrated knowledge and experience in leading Student Wellbeing and working with students, coaching and mentoring teachers, supporting families, and liaising with varied allied health services in Disability Inclusion.

**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