Location Profile Learning Specialist: Instructional Leader
- Teaching and Learning (TAL) Tenure: 27.1.2027
- 26.1.2029 Areas: English, Mathematics or Academic Intervention Positions available: 7

Outstanding opportunity to work at Tarneit Rise Primary School Tarneit Rise Primary School is a strong, inclusive community that proudly celebrates our diversity and multiculturalism, and we are recruiting Our Mission Creating citizens for the future: compassionate, curious and strong. Our Vision We empower all students to achieve personal goals, experiencing high quality education and the best community for learning. This will ensure all learners have the knowledge, skills and attitudes to become lifelong learners, shaping the world around them and believing that, with effort, great things can be achieved. Our Values Respect, Responsibility, Kindness, and Growth Our facilities are state of the art, our children are gorgeous, our curriculum is rigorous, and our leadership is strong. We are looking for teachers of any level of experience who will engage the evidence base so that they can make a difference. TRPS is committed to drawing on the evidence base and cognitive science to design and map the curriculum, select effective instructional strategies
- aligned to explicit teaching-, and structure lessons. Our children and families are highly aspirational and respectful, consistently display a positive attitude, and are committed to learning. This positive and respectful school culture fosters academic excellence and personal growth, making our school a wonderful place to teach and learn. Families and teachers are genuine partners in the learning process, ensuring our children strive to achieve their personal best and show kindness towards others.

Selection Criteria





- SC1 ¿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.
- SC2 ¿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.
- SC3 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.
- SC4 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.
- SC5 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 skilled learning.
- SC6 Demonstrated capability to drive instructional excellence,



while executing operational oversight and professional learning for a whole-school strategic improvement area.

Responsibilities

- 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.
- 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.
- Evaluating Pedagogical Impact: Analyse school wide cohort data to evaluate instructional effectiveness or to inform targeted academic intervention.
- Whole-School Strategy: Drive the whole school implementation of teaching and learning priorities, including a Multi‑Tiered System of Supports (MTSS), aligned with the school’s priorities as described in the School Strategic Plan.
- Operational Planning: Collaborate with the Teaching and Learning (T&L;) Assistant Principals (APs) to monitor the health of the implementation of the whole school improvement area and oversee the management of its learning materials, and other learning specialists to ensure best practice.
- Any other duties as determined by the principal

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 w

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