2025 Learning Specialist Literacy, Assessment, PLC

Location: Melbourne | Cranbourne Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 25/01/2028 Organisation: Schools (Government) **Salary**: Salary not specified Occupation: Education and Training Reference: 1435971 **Location Profile**: Kilberry Valley Primary School is an inclusive school, characterised by its rich cultural diversity with students representing 40 different language backgrounds. Our teaching and learning provides a Prep to Year 6 program that meets the needs for each of our 425 students. At Kilberry Valley Primary School, we have high expectations for all students in literacy and numeracy. In literacy our teachers intensively implement the Little Learners Lover Literacy program in our early years, with a major focus on synthetic phonics to support all children to be successful readers and spellers. In the middle and senior years, our teachers implement the Reader¿s workshop model, using a differentiated teaching approach and a focus on every student becoming independent readers. In Numeracy our teaching approach uses the Victorian Curriculum with hands on manipulatives and real-life learning. Our vision is to "Develop Responsible Learners for a Changing Society¿. We believe that all students, staff, and the community can learn. The values of respect, responsiveness, integrity, impartiality, accountability, leadership, and human rights are paramount at Kilberry Valley Primary School. As our school motto states, our staff strive daily to 'Make THE Difference¿ to meet the needs of every student. Our school Wellbeing program is well equipped with a Mindfulness room, Regulation Station and Wellbeing centre. Social emotional approach to learning underpins everything we do to ensure an inclusive environment building resilience and maintaining positive relationships. The school community continues to embrace the use of information technology to challenge our students and communicate with each other. Our well-resourced specialist programs are exemplary in Media Arts, Performing Arts, Physical Education, and Personal and Social Capabilities Program. The school has a fully operational TV Studio, two computer labs, media arts space, performing arts rooms and full-sized gymnasium. Our school participates in in interschool sport, and we regularly achieve successful teams in many different sports. Kilberry Valley Primary School is situated in Hampton Park and is categorised in the 'low to mid¿ range compared with other state schools in socio-economic terms with an SFO of 0.6227 and SFOE of 0.5042. We are committed to excellence and to ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our children. We are a child safe and equal employment opportunity employer. **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 prac