Classroom Teacher – Performing Arts

Knox Gardens Primary School provides a challenging and engaging environment for all children. Our current enrolment for 2025 is 457 students and our numbers are expected to increase over the coming years. Our dedicated staff are passionate about delivering high-quality teaching and learning, fostering creativity, and building strong foundations for lifelong success, as our motto states 'Learning for Life'. We are committed to nurturing a love of learning in every student, while also encouraging kindness, resilience, and respect for others through our school values of Respect, Honesty, Responsibility and Fairness.

Our curriculum places a strong emphasis on literacy and numeracy including additional assistance for students where English is an Additional Language or extension/challenge programs for high abilities students. Our specialist programs in Performing Arts, Visual Arts, Science, Physical Education, and LOTE (Mandarin) enrich the educational experience while building confidence and unlocking hidden talents. Our BYOD Program for Years 3-6 combined with other digital technologies such as robotics, coding and 3D Printing ensures students are engaged while being equipped to be 21st-century learners. Students with disabilities and impairments are also integrated into an inclusive curriculum, offered from Foundation to Year Six.

Parent and community participation complements and extends the programs provided by the staff, as we believe in the power of strong partnerships between school and families. At Knox Gardens Primary School, you will be joining a community with a strong commitment for high expectations and a priority to maximise the learning growth for all students. You will be a valued member of our school who ensures that our students feel safe, inspired, and empowered every day.

Selection Criteria

• Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills.
• Demonstrated experience in responding to student learning needs.
• Demonstrated experience in planning for and implementing high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn, and evaluating the impact of learning and teaching programs on student learning growth.
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring and assessing student learning.
• Demonstrated experience in using data to inform teaching practice and providing feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
• Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills.
• Demonstrated experience in establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.
• Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values.
• Demonstrated experience in reflecting upon practice and engaging in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.

Responsibilities

• Direct teaching of groups of students and individual students;
• Contributing to the development, implementation and evaluation of a curriculum area or other curriculum program within the school;
• Undertaking other classroom teaching related and organisational duties as determined by the School Principal;
• Participating in activities such as parent/teacher meetings; staff meetings; camps and excursions;
• Undertaking other non-teaching supervisory duties.

Diversity and Inclusion

The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. 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.

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.