Classroom Teacher

Role overview

Selection criteria and eligibility

• Demonstrate curriculum knowledge, including literacy and numeracy teaching, and experience responding to student learning needs.
• Plan and implement high-impact teaching strategies and evaluate their effects on student learning growth.
• Monitor and assess learning, use data to inform teaching, and provide feedback to students and parents.
• Demonstrate communication and interpersonal skills and collaborative relationships with students, families, colleagues, and the school community.
• Reflect on practice, engage in professional learning, and demonstrate behaviours consistent with Department values.
• Communicate with staff and teach students in Auslan.
• Be registered or eligible for registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching and qualified to teach and/or experienced in the specified curriculum area.
• Applicable teacher education accreditation and LANTITE requirements depend on the candidate’s program and graduation date.

Responsibilities

• Directly teach groups and individual students and deliver planned learning programs.
• Contribute to curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation.
• Undertake classroom-related and organizational duties, parent-teacher and staff meetings, camps, excursions, and non-teaching supervision as required.
• Range 2 teachers may model exemplary practice, mentor or coach colleagues, advise on professional learning, supervise student teachers, and help staff use student data.
• Range 1 teachers teach their own classes, may assist with policy and program development, and may supervise or train student teachers.

School profile

Workplace

• The role is based at Victorian College for the Deaf in Melbourne and involves classroom teaching in a school setting.

Employment and salary

• The posting lists the work type as ongoing full-time.
• Salary is not specified.