Classroom Teacher

Wonga Park Primary School is set in a semi-rural environment and values its strong sense of community and history. The school is an integral part of the Wonga Park community and enrolments have steadily grown. This year our enrolments are at 392. We provide a nurturing, engaging and innovative learning environment that develops students who are healthy, caring and connected community members, who have a love of learning and strive for excellence. Our purpose is to support all members of our learning community to develop the values, knowledge and skills that will enable them to become self-reliant, resilient and effective members of an ever changing global community.

Wonga Park Primary School values integrity, commitment, respect, courage and confidence, self-responsibility, persistence, creativity, critical thinking, individuality, fun and celebrating success. Our dedicated staff demonstrate a strong commitment to continuous improvement, achieving excellence in teaching and learning using technology to maximise student learning. Programs are designed to be engaging, flexible and authentic and through challenged based learning, we explicitly teach the language, tools and strategies to engage in analytical, critical and creative thinking tasks. Our learning community is committed to building positive relationships and this has contributed to strong student connectedness, improved student attendance, high parent satisfaction and strong partnerships between home and school.

Selection Criteria

• SC1: Demonstrated high level of knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills. Demonstrated high level of ability to respond to student learning needs.
• SC2: Demonstrated high level of ability to plan for and 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 high level of ability to monitor and assess student learning. Demonstrated high level of ability to use data to inform teaching practice and to provide feedback on student learning growth and achievement to students and parents.
• SC4: Demonstrated high level of interpersonal and communication skills. Demonstrated high level of ability to establish and maintain collaborative relationships with students, parents, colleagues and the broader school community to support student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.
• SC5: Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values. Demonstrated high level of ability to reflect upon practice and engage in professional learning to continually improve the quality of teaching.
• SC6: Demonstrate the capacity to utilise technology to maximise student learning across all areas of the curriculum including Challenged Based Learning (CBL).

Responsibilities

• The role of classroom teacher may include but is not limited to:
• 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.

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 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.

Conditions of Employment

This vacancy is to replace an employee on parental absence and is for a period of seven years or until the employee absent on leave returns to duty at the school.

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 of initial teacher education programs in Australia: Standards and Procedures'; 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.