**Overview**:
**Work Type**:Ongoing - Full-time
**Salary**: Salary not specified
**Grade**:Graduate Teacher Program
**Occupation**:Classroom teacher
**Location**:Melbourne - Western suburbs
**Reference**:1488558
**Location Profile**:
- Riverbend Primary School is a vibrant and inclusive learning community located at the intersection of Communal Road and Tathra Road in Wyndham Vale, approximately 40km from Melbourne, in the rapidly growing City of Wyndham. Our purpose-built facilities include three learning neighbourhoods, an administration building, double-storey classrooms, a performing arts building, purpose built gym, outdoor play courts, and a spacious sports field.
- At Riverbend Primary School, students are at the centre of everything we do. We are proud to foster a learning environment that values diversity, promotes inclusion, and holds high expectations for all learners, resulting in excellence for everyone. Our specialist programs in Visual Arts, Performing Arts, STEM, and Physical Education support the development of the whole child.
- Guided by our school mascot PERRI, we live our core values every day: Positivity, Excellence, Resilience, Respect and Inclusion. Our collective responsibility is to ensure every student leaves Riverbend as a well-rounded, critical and creative thinker who is a kind, respectful, and resilient citizen, ready for the future.
- We also recognise that happy, healthy staff are vital to a thriving school community. At Riverbend, we prioritise staff wellbeing through a friendly, collaborative and well-supported environment. Staff have access to dedicated wellbeing facilities, including a fully equipped gym and a quiet relaxation space, supporting balance, connection and self-care.
**Selection Criteria - Graduates**:
**SC1** Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the capacity to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated capacity to respond to student learning needs.
**SC2** Demonstrated capacity to implement high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluate the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
**SC3** Demonstrated capacity to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated capacity to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
**SC4** Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated capacity to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, wellbeing and engagement.
**SC5** Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated capacity to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.
**Program Benefits - Graduates**:
**Role - Graduates**:
- The primary focus of the range 1 classroom teacher is on further developing skills and competencies to become an effective classroom practitioner with structured support and guidance from teachers at higher levels and the planning, preparation and teaching of programs to achieve specific student outcomes.
- These teachers teach a range of students/classes and are accountable for the effective delivery of their programs. Range 1 classroom teachers are skilled teachers who operate under general direction within clear guidelines following established work practices and documented priorities and may have responsibility for the supervision and training of one or more student teachers.
- At range 1, teachers participate in the development of school policies and programs and assist in the implementation of school priorities.
- Teachers at range 1 are responsible for teaching their own classes and may also assist and participate in policy development, project teams and the organisation of co-curricula activities.
**Responsibilities - Graduates**:
- Core responsibilities include:
- Planning and implementing a range of teaching programs or courses of study
- Teaching an area of the curriculum or a general curriculum to a year level
- Monitoring, evaluating and reporting student progress in key learning areas
- Implementing strategies to achieve targets related to student learning outcomes
- Maintaining records of class attendance and recording student progress
- Implementing effective student management consistent with the school charter.
- Working with a mentor to participate in professional development planning, implementation and reflection developing a professional portfolio
- Additional responsibilities may include but are not limited to:
- Supervising a range of student activities including support and welfare programs
- Contributing to a range of co-curricular programs
- have completed their course requirements and graduated in the last 4 years, and
- not be employed as a teacher by the department at the time the advert