Learning specialist range 3 (healesville)

Overview

Work type: Part time

Salary: Salary not specified

Grade: Learning Specialist Range 3

Occupation: Education and Training

Location: Healesville

Reference: 1478405

Location Profile

Millwarra Primary School is a multi-site school situated in a semi-rural area in the Upper Yarra Valley, 70 kilometres from Melbourne. It is the only dual campus Primary School in the North‐Eastern Victoria Region. This enables flexibility of staff, which is critical in the provision of specialist programs. Students have access to resources from both campuses. The two school sites, one at Millgrove and the other at Warburton East, are approximately nine kilometres apart, with the township of Warburton in between. The school administration is centred at the Millgrove site.

The current total enrolment of the school is 46, with 21 students at Warburton East and 25 students at the Millgrove campus.

The school provides a balanced, comprehensive curriculum across the key learning areas including an integrated approach to curriculum planning and delivery, to benefit our student¿s academic strengths. We maintain an important focus on our student¿s well‐being.

Specialist teachers provide programs across both campuses. We have Visual Art, Physical Education, Library, Auslan, Drumming and Respectful Relationships sessions. Special assistance is provided to students through the Program for Students with Disabilities. All curriculum programs and administration, are supported and enhanced by the latest development in learning technologies and digital learning. All students from Grades 2 to 6, have access to their own school laptops, and the junior students have access to laptops and PCs.

To support the curriculum areas, enrichment programs are provided in: Camps, inter‐school sports, sports clinics, school production, junior sleepover, cooking classes, cyber safety sessions, intergenerational engagement, private music lessons, Electives, Bike Ed, Ben¿s Shed Woodworking, National Reconciliation Week events, First Aid In Schools for students, and many more sporting and other activities. Our campuses have their own sets of school bikes for students to use.

Student academic, sporting and personal achievements are formally acknowledged at our fortnightly assemblies. The school incorporates the Values program into the school¿s operations.

Millwarra Primary School has spacious, attractive and well‐maintained grounds and modern play equipment at both sites, with modern classrooms at both campuses.

Millgrove has a modern administration building and the office at Warburton East is within the current classroom building. The Warburton East building has been set up to be used as a Community Fire Refuge. Both campuses have 4 modern classrooms, Libraries and Art rooms. The Millgrove Campus also has a multi‐purpose room, canteen and the Millwarra Community Building, which includes a theatre space, Basketball Court & kitchen.

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 programmes 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 i