Leading Teacher Range 3

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

**Salary**: Salary not specified

**Grade**:Leading Teacher - Range 3

**Occupation**:Leading teacher

**Location**:Loddon Mallee - Macedon Ranges

**Reference**:1493036

**Selection Criteria**:
**SC1** Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.

**SC2** Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation 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 monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. 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 leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

**SC5** Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.

**Role**:

- Leading teachers will be highly skilled classroom practitioners and undertake leadership and management roles commensurate with their salary range. The role of leading teachers is to improve the skill, knowledge and performance of the teaching workforce in a school or group of schools and to improve the curriculum program of a school.
- Typically, leading teachers are responsible for coordinating a number of staff to achieve improvements in teaching and learning which may involve the coordination and professional support of colleagues through modelling, collaborating and coaching and using processes that develop knowledge, practice and professional engagement in others.
- Leading teachers are expected to lead and manage a significant area or function within the school with a high degree of independence to ensure the effective development, provision and evaluation of the school's education program.
- Leading teachers will be expected to make a significant contribution to policy development relating to teaching and learning in the school. A leading teacher has a direct impact and influence on the achievement of the school goals.
- Leading teachers are usually responsible for the implementation of one or more priorities contained in the school strategic plan.

**Responsibilities**:
**Teaching and Learning Leading Teacher - Position Overview**
- The Teaching and Learning Leading Teacher provides strategic leadership in curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment across the College. This role is pivotal in implementing the **Victorian Teaching and Learning Model (VTLM 2.0)**, ensuring that teaching practices are consistent, evidence-based, and aligned to whole-school improvement priorities.
- The position is also responsible for overseeing the **assessment and reporting program**, ensuring that policies, practices, and procedures are rigorous, transparent, and supportive of improved student learning outcomes.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Strategic Leadership in Teaching and Learning**
- Lead the **rollout and embedding of VTLM 2.0** across the College, ensuring a consistent, high-impact approach to instructional practice.
- Model effective teaching practices and promote a culture of reflective, evidence-informed teaching.
- Drive school-wide improvement in pedagogy through coaching, mentoring, and professional learning opportunities.
- Monitor the impact of teaching practices on student outcomes using multiple data sources.

**Assessment and Reporting**
- Review, develop, and implement consistent **assessment and reporting practices** across the College.
- Ensure alignment of assessment with Victorian Curriculum, VCE, and College policies.
- Provide leadership in the development of reporting processes that are meaningful to students, parents, and teachers.

**Leadership of Heads of Faculty**
- Line manage and mentor the **Heads of Faculty**, providing guidance, accountability, and support in curriculum planning, teaching practice, and faculty operations.
- Facilitate regular meetings of Heads of Faculty to share best practice, ensure curriculum coherence, and monitor progress on College-wide initiatives.
- Build a collaborative leadership culture within the Curriculum Team that focuses on improved teaching and learning.
- Lead performance development processes and provide constructive fee