Learning Specialist

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Learning Specialist - Range 3

**Occupation**:Learning specialist

**Location**:Melbourne - Inner South East suburbs

**Reference**:1484359

**Selection Criteria**:

- SC1: Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to model exemplary teaching practices, 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**:

- The Curriculum and Pedagogical Practice Learning Specialists, led by the Curriculum and Pedagogical Practice Leading Teachers, work in partnership with specific Domain Leaders to support the implementation of evidence-based teaching practices and high-quality curriculum planning across the college. Operating at the domain level, they build teacher capacity to promote consistency in curriculum entitlements, instructional and assessment approaches, aligned with the MGC curriculum frameworks.

**The Curriculum and Pedagogical Practice Learning Specialists will lead specific Domain Leaders and s**taff to achieve**:

- A shared understanding of curriculum entitlement for students at MGC.
- Consistent approaches to curriculum and assessment in specific domains across Years 7 to 10.
- A documented guaranteed and viable curriculum in specific domains across Years 7 to 10.
- Consistent, evidence based instructional approaches across all year levels in specific domains.
- A shared and embedded understanding of the VTLM and MGC Instructional Model.
- A culture of reflective practice, professional learning, and collaboration among teaching staff.

**Responsibilities**:

- Support specific Domain Leaders and teaching teams to build a shared understanding of curriculum entitlement for all students at MGC.
- Promote and guide consistent approaches to curriculum design, assessment practices, and instructional delivery within specific domains across Years 7 to 10.
- Guide the development and documentation of a guaranteed and viable curriculum within specific domains, aligned with the MGC curriculum frameworks.
- Support the consistent implementation of evidence-based instructional approaches across all year levels, aligned with the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM) and the MGC Instructional Model.
- Build teacher capacity through modelling, coaching, and facilitating professional learning.
- Foster a culture of reflective practice and collaboration within domains by supporting the use of student learning data, peer feedback, and inquiry to inform teaching and learning.
- Collaborate with Domain Leaders to ensure curriculum and pedagogy are aligned, coherent, and responsive to student needs.
- Contribute to whole-college improvement initiatives through active participation in professional learning communities and leadership of domain-level implementation.
- Monitor the impact of pedagogical and curriculum practices within specific domains and provide feedback to support continuous improvement.
- The Curriculum and Pedagogical Practices Learning Specialists will work together with the Curriculum Leaders and Professional Practice Learning Specialists as a team across the school.
- The specific duties and responsibilities outlined in this role description may be varied or adjusted at the discretion of the principal to meet the evolving needs of the College.

**EEO AND OHS Commitment**:
**Child Safe Standards**:

- Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
**DE Values**:

- The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness