2025 Learning Specialist

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 27/01/2025 - 25/01/2027

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Teacher

Reference: 1432409

**Location Profile**:
The community of Greenvale has long-awaited its own a secondary school and is eager for it to be a success story: the secondary school of choice for local families and a school of which all in the community can be proud. The future of education for Greenvale is now here and students will be prepared for, and encouraged to dream, believe and achieve.

Our school opened on day 1 of Term 1, 2022 at 2 Glencairn Drive, Greenvale and will grow rapidly. In its first year of operation, the school will open to Year 7 students only, and progress by year level thereafter.

At Greenvale we are unrelentingly supportive and overwhelmingly positive with the growth of every individual student our absolute core focus. We have created a learning environment that is built on high expectations for all, where all students are engaged in academic enrichment with a diverse and challenging curriculum, while ensuring they enjoy the caring and supportive environment in which they learn every day.

Students are exposed to a diverse and challenging curriculum as well as offering academic enhancements in all learning areas.

The College also supplements students¿ learning with a wide range of co-curricular programs as well as encouraging them to get involved with the wider community.

Our school vision, mission and values were developed in partnership with the community and are:
**Vision**:

- We stay at the forefront of education to encourage the development of the whole student, providing them with the knowledge, skills and confidence to succeed and become lifelong learners who are generous, active and informed citizens._

**Mission**:

- We¿re on a mission to provide the best education we can for our students by partnering with our community and fostering the natural care and passion our staff have to make a difference._

**Values**:

- Excellence:_ We relentlessly pursue excellence and achieve our best_
- Leadership:_ We support and influence others to achieve more than they thought possible_
- Respect:_ We respect others for who they are and value their opinions_
- Teamwork:_ We work together to achieve our goals through trust and mutual support_

**Facilities**

Current funding allows for the following permanent facilities:

- Administration and Learning Resource Centre building
- STEM building
- Learning Neighbourhood building
- Stage 1 carpark
- 2 x bike shelters
- 1 x temporary hardcourt
- Landscaped outdoor play and learning areas

At completion of Stage 1 works, the school will accommodate a capacity of approximately 550 students.

Future stages will be delivered when Stage Budgets release additional funding and will allow for the construction of the remaining facilities:

- Additional Learning Neighbourhood building
- Visual Arts Building
- Performing Arts and Physical Education (PAPE) building including indoor multi
- court
- 4 x hardcourts
- Sports oval
- Landscaped outdoor play and learning areas
- Stage 2 carpark

**Selection Criteria**:

- Ability to successfully lead the implementation and evaluation of learning and teaching programs, inclusive of evidence based pedagogical approaches, curriculum implementation, and effective assessment and reporting, in accordance with the relevant (or equivalent) Victorian Curriculum F¿10, Victorian Certificate of Education and Victorian Certificate of Applied Learning.
- Outstanding classroom teaching skills and capacity to model high impact classroom teaching strategies and lead colleagues to improve their teaching and learning to enable all students to achieve their full potential.
- Outstanding ability to monitor and assess student learning data at the individual, cohort and whole school level and to use this data to inform teaching for improved student learning.
- Outstanding written and verbal communication skills and high level interpersonal skills including the ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with parents, other employees and the broader school community focused on student learning, wellbeing and engagement.

**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 an