Learning specialist - instructional coach

Berwick College is a Year 7-12 coeducational school with a student population of over 1650 students. The College is located on Bunurong Country, in the beautiful eastern suburb of Berwick. The location is only 35 minute drive from the centre of Melbourne.

Berwick College delivers a rigorous curriculum with a huge range of individualised pathways. We support our students to become critical and creative thinkers in areas of passion and interest. Teachers implement the school's Instructional Model to guide pedagogy and use our Effective Learning Environment and SWPBS guidelines to support positive behaviours across the school.

We place great emphasis on our exceptional co‐curricular program to connect students to our school and to develop students as collaborative problem solvers. Our students regularly participate in a range of community events and represent the school at state and national levels. The huge variety of programs allows our students to flourish as they pursue their particular interests and goals.

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 programs 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

The Learning Specialist – Instructional Coach is an educational leader who is committed to the provision of a high‐quality education for every student at Berwick College.

The Learning Specialist – Instructional Coach will lead the actions to achieve these key improvement strategies:

• Build teacher capacity and collaboration in curriculum and assessment design and documentation which is aligned with the Victorian Curriculum 2.0.
• Embed a purposeful use of data to cater for all learning needs.
• Use student learning data to enhance student agency and opportunities for feedback.
• Improve teacher capability to implement instructional practices in line with the Victorian Teaching and Learning Model 2.0.
• Build leadership capability to ensure collective responsibility to improve instructional practices.
• Develop and embed a leadership framework for wellbeing and inclusion through a tiered approach to enable a positive learning environment across all classrooms.
• Embed the college identity in a culture of excellence.
• Strengthen student agency, leadership and voice in learning.

Other responsibilities include being an exemplary classroom teacher, leading a professional culture of learning and school improvement, building strong partnerships with leadership, ensuring student needs are at the centre of curriculum planning, contributing to leadership of curriculum and pedagogical responses to data, building capacity of teachers to implement Individual Education Plans and Behaviour Support Plans, contributing to a holistic approach to curriculum planning and assessment, and enhancing the capacity of teachers to deliver a differentiated curriculum.

Responsibilities

Learning Specialists spend the majority of their time in the classroom delivering high‐quality teaching and learning. Key responsibilities include:

• Modelling high‐level expertise in teaching and learning practice.
• Teaching demonstration lessons and providing observational feedback.
• Working with the school leadership team to develop a shared view of highly effective teacher practice.
• Leading and modelling the implementation of whole‐school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery.
• Playing a key role in the provision of professional learning, including developing processes and protocols for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration.
• Providing evidence‐based feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development.
• Supervising and training student teachers and mentoring/coaching teachers.
• Modelling exemplary use of student data to inform teaching approaches.

Who May Apply

Teachers currently registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or have demonstrated experience in the curriculum area(s) specified for the position.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms – culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).

Child Safe Standards

Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards.

Conditions of Employment

All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements.

Qualification Requirements

To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class:

• The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching; and
• If the person completed an Australian postgraduate level initial teaching program or course of study on or after 1 January 2024, they must demonstrate that they have satisfactorily completed a postgraduate level accredited initial teacher education program that has been accredited by an Australian State or Territory Teacher Regulatory Authority as satisfying the requirements of the Australian Institute for Teaching and School Leadership accreditation; and
• A person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education (ITE) program after 1 July 2016 must also demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements (this condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian ITE program completed by the person).

Applications close Thursday 18 June 2026 at 11.59pm