2025 Learning Enrichment Teacher

**Learning Enrichment Teacher, 2025**

**Fulltime contract, commencing January 2025**

**Milkwood Steiner School**

**Closing Date**:23 October 2024

Milkwood Steiner School is situated on Larrakia land (Darwin), in the tropical north of Australia delivering a Steiner Curriculum to 170 students from Kindergarten to Class 8. Our school has unique large tropical style buildings with classrooms that open out on to broad verandas, with a playground that extends to a beautiful native bushland. Our school is growing and adding an additional class in 2025, so we are seeking another teacher to join our College.

Milkwood Steiner School delivers a model of classroom teaching that allows each child to reach their full potential, through the richness of the Australian Steiner Curriculum Framework. When additional support is needed, the College of Teachers draws on a deep understanding of Steiner Pedagogy and child development, to collaborate with a Learning Enrichment Specialist to designing Educational Adjustment Plans and interventions, documenting recommendations and referrals, to meet a child's needs.

In practice, this role includes a combination of classroom teaching, and running programs for 1:1 or small groups tto address individualised academic, social, emotional or behavioural goals. For some children these interventions may be temporary, and for others, the support will be ongoing. It also includes time working with class groups, collaboratively delivering areas of learning that build on and support the class teacher's direction for the class.

The learning enrichment teacher has a high level of experience and expertise in inclusive education, disability and trauma-informed practice, and gifted education in the Primary School setting. They have an excellent knowledge of assessment processes and are confident leading a process for writing Educational Adjustment Plans in collaboration with other staff, specialists and the child's family. They are creative and resourceful, and have the skills to adapt their practice to a Steiner setting.

Indigenous applicants are strongly encouraged to apply.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Work effectively with the College of Teachers, Principal, Administration Staff and external student support services
- Develop, document, assess and report on Educational Adjustment Plans for individual students based on best practice interventions for inclusion, wellbeing, and learning
- Engage with incident reporting, behaviour management reporting and mandatory reporting as required
- Develop and oversee a range of student activities including learning support, health and wellbeing and social/emotional learning programs
- Attend relevant meetings, including a reasonable number of planning meetings, at the discretion of the Principal
- Deliver 2 x Staff in-services and 2 x parent information sessions per year, on topics identified as needed for professional learning, by the Principal and College of Teachers.

**Key Selection Criteria**

**Essential**
- Registered for or eligible for Teacher Registration in the NT, an Ochre Card, Current First Aid
- Specialised training in one or more of Inclusive Education, Disability, Trauma-informed Education, Gifted Education or qualifications in a therapeutic profession.
- Demonstrated experience leading, planning, delivering and assessing best-practice Educational Adjustment Plans, in collaboration with staff, students and parents.
- A high level of skill in reporting, verbal and written communication.
- A love for children and an inclusive approach that values diversity and wellbeing
- A commitment to the principles of Steiner Education

**Desirable**
- Training in any area of Steiner Education, or experience working in a Steiner School

Applications to include
- Cover Letter addressing the selection criteria
- CV and registration documents
- 2 referees
- SCHOOL:

- Milkwood Steiner School
- CLOSING DATE:

- 23 October 2024
- CONTACT:

- Netanela Mizrahi