Job Title: Leadership Role in Educational Excellence
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.
Responsibilities
* Demonstrate a high-level expertise in teaching and learning practices specifically in English.
* Model exemplary classroom practice including through teaching demonstration lessons.
* Work with the school leadership team in particular the Assistant Principal - English/Literacy and to develop a shared view of highly effective teacher practice that reflects the VTLM 2.0 and the College's instructional model.
* Lead and model the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery.
* Ensure all Curriculum Area members are actively collaboratively involved in curriculum development.
* Plan for and facilitate PLC meetings with a focus on curriculum documentation, sharing of pedagogy, use of data for differentiation and monitoring of student progress.
* Guide and monitor teacher teams in the creation of effective high-quality formative and summative assessments, their moderation of student learning evidence and the learning programs in response.
* Develop a high level of expertise in literacy teaching strategies across the whole school and work within the PLC framework to support individual teachers to develop strategies to embed literacy teaching.
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