**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time
**Salary**: Salary not specified
**Grade**:Classroom Teacher
**Occupation**:Classroom teacher
**Location**:Melbourne - Eastern suburbs
**Reference**:1488693
**Location Profile**:
- Casey Fields Primary School is situated in the richly diverse and rapidly growing suburb of Cranbourne East. We are a progressive/state of the art, 21st Century school, boasting one of the most contemporary learning environments in Australia. Our projected student population for 2025 is in excess of 1045 with a long-term projection of 1100 students.
**Is the CFPS badge for you?**
- Do you want to be a part of a school that:
- Works hard towards its goals but is a fun, rewarding place to come to work?
- Has high expectations of its staff but supports them to succeed?
- Encourages risk-taking but acknowledges failing forward is an important part of learning?
- Invests in the potential of each individual but recognises our greatest strength is our team?
**We are on a journey of curiosity**
- A positive culture is part of our DNA. We are committed and engaged in our role of making Casey Fields PS an inspiring place for learning. All decisions are centered around our students. We work together and support each other on our chosen journeys and encourage everyone to explore their curiosities. We respect all members of the community and approach all challenges with an open mindset.
- We are focused on continual improvement and actively encourage our staff to explore and innovate within their practice. We have adopted a Design Thinking approach where staff and students are encouraged to think outside of the box. Our student-centered approach to teaching and learning actively promotes creative and critical thinkers.
- As a part of our Design Thinking approach, staff regularly work in teams to undertake practitioner inquiry projects that tackle authentic issues facing our new school community. Every staff member is expected to have an impact on our journey of building Casey Fields PS.
**Will you join us?**
- Are you a teacher who:
- Has the potential to grow and a disposition for learning.
- Is self-aware and possesses a desire to improve as an educator.
- Is willing to take risks and innovate when presented with a challenge.
- Is a positive and dedicated team player, who also likes to have fun
**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 th