Instructional Leader

Location: Melbourne | Southern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 25/01/2028

Organisation: Schools (Government)

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Education and Training

Reference: 1436080

**Location Profile**:
Clyde Creek Primary School is a brand-new multi-campus school located in the City of Casey. Having opened in 2022 as part of the Victorian Government commitment to deliver 100 new schools between 2019 - 2026. We currently have 640 students across both our Primary Campus and Specialist Campus. We have classes across Year Prep - Year 6.

Our beautiful school facilities support our commitment to our school mission, vision and values.

Clyde Creek Primary School's mission is to provide a high-quality education in a safe, connected and inclusive environment that nurtures individual abilities and life-long learners.

Clyde Creek Primary School's vision is to:

- Foster a respectful, inclusive community.
- Develop high expectations for learning growth.
- Create the conditions for students to succeed.
- Support responsible, engaged and empowered learners.
- Promote positive partnerships between home, school and the wider community.

Clyde Creek Primary School's values are**:C**ARE, **C**OLLABORATION, **P**ERSISTENCE and **S**UCCESS.

**CARE**:

- We model and demonstrate care for ourselves, each other, our learning, our environment and our community.
- We are polite, friendly, empathetic/respectful, inclusive and show genuine kindness.
- We are a community of students, staff and families supporting the hopes and educational aspirations of all.
- We respect diversity.

**COLLABORATION**:

- We work in partnership with other students, staff, parents, and carers to listen, learn and evolve together.
- We value teamwork to help each other to grow and achieve.
- We communicate, build trust, support and inspire each other.

**PERSISTENCE**:

- We are motivated to learn and succeed.
- We persist and use our growth mindset, giving our best efforts in all of our learning.
- We practice, self-reflect, problem-solve, and build resilience.
- We persist with challenges and build resilience.

**SUCCESS**:

- We recognise we are all members of the school community who are encouraged to be confident, positive, persistent and resilient.
- We continually work to achieve our personal best as we embrace new learning.
- We are drivers of our own learning and take pride in ourselves and school.
- We encourage each other's success and always strive for our personal best.
- We are ambitious learners and work hard towards our goals.

See our school values, classes and grounds in action

**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.

**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 practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of th