Instructional Leader: Elevate Teaching & Learning

Government schools; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Tarneit Rise Primary School invites applications for a Learning Specialist: Instructional Leader in Teaching and Learning. The role focuses on exemplary classroom practice, supporting teachers with high impact strategies and data-informed improvement.

Successful candidates will lead professional learning, mentor staff, and drive school-wide priorities in alignment with the School Strategic Plan, promoting student achievement and wellbeing in a collaborative community.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Demonstrated capability to drive instructional excellence, while executing operational oversight and professional learning for a whole-school strategic improvement area.

Responsibilities

• Focus: To champion pedagogical excellence across Tarneit Rise Primary School through the modelling of exemplary Tier 1, 2, and 3 practices, and by leading strategic professional learning that measurably improves teacher impact and student growth.
• 1. Instructional Excellence: Model high-quality pedagogy by demonstrating precise delivery of, and fidelity to, Direct Instruction (DI) and Explicit Direct Instruction (EDI) frameworks through a collaborative classroom-sharing arrangement between two Learning Specialists.
• 2. Instructional Leadership: Provide professional learning and coaching in an identified academic curriculum area and its effective teaching to support teachers to understand the curriculum area, its sequence, and how to execute its instruction effectively.
• 3. Evaluating Pedagogical Impact: Analyse school wide cohort data to evaluate instructional effectiveness or to inform targeted academic intervention.
• 4. Whole-School Strategy: Drive the whole school implementation of teaching and learning priorities, including a MTSS, aligned with the school’s priorities as described in the School Strategic Plan.
• 5. Operational Planning: Collaborate with the Teaching and Learning APs to monitor the health of the implementation of the whole school improvement area and oversee the management of its learning materials.
• 5. Any other duties as determined by the principal

Skills

Curriculum knowledge

High impact teaching

Data-informed practice

Collaborative leadership

Job description

Tarneit Rise Primary School invites applications for a Learning Specialist: Instructional Leader in Teaching and Learning. The role focuses on exemplary classroom practice, supporting teachers with high impact strategies and data-informed improvement.

Successful candidates will lead professional learning, mentor staff, and drive school-wide priorities in alignment with the School Strategic Plan, promoting student achievement and wellbeing in a collaborative community.