Classroom Teacher - Physical Education

The Hawkesdale P12 College is a school where high expectations are set and students have real opportunities to learn and grow in a safe, supportive and enjoyable learning environment. Our school values focus on respect, responsibility and resilience – vital life qualities to foster in children and young people as they transition through their primary and secondary learning years towards meaningful adult pathways.

Our school enrolment is currently 145 students, with 50 primary students and 95 secondary students; our current school personnel comprise a Principal, Assistant Principal, Learning Specialists and 35 full and part time teaching and ES staff. The Hawkesdale P12 College is located in a picturesque corner of SW Victoria between the coastline of the Southern Ocean and the ranges of the Gariwerd National Park. Our small township sits in an area surrounded by Koroit, Port Fairy, Woolsthorpe, Macarthur and Penshurst, with dairying, wool growing, beef production and forestry being major local agricultural industries.

Our school features a range of excellent facilities and resources to enhance student learning and wellbeing, including an indoor basketball stadium, synthetic turf sports spaces, a warm and inviting community library, a fully equipped technology wing for art, woodwork, food studies, ceramics and design subjects, and a canteen that is open three times per day for breakfast, break snacks and lunchtime meals.

The Hawkesdale community is enriched by many influences from around the world, and from its connection to First Nations people. Our school is a multicultural setting, with a range of students involved in EAL studies, or who come from a Language Background other than English. Indigenous students make up 10% of the school population, and a school priority is to increasingly engage our First Nations students and the wider school community with a growing awareness of and involvement in indigenous culture and sense of Country.

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.

Conditions of Employment

All staff employed by the Department and schools have access to a broad range of employment conditions and working arrangements. Appointment of successful applicants will be made subject to a satisfactory pre-employment conditions check.

Program Benefits

This position has been advertised as part of the Regional Relocation Incentives (RRI) and includes retention payments. Payments are only applicable and payable if the successful candidate meets the candidate eligibility criteria.

Qualification Requirements

The person must have provisional or full registration approved by the Victorian Institute of Teaching.