Specialist Classroom Teacher - Performing Arts/STEM/Life SkillsJob posted: 20/12/2024Location: Melbourne | Southern MetropolitanJob type: Full time / From 28/01/2025 - 26/01/2027Organisation: Schools (Government)Salary: Salary not specifiedOccupation: Education and TrainingReference: 1460524Closes: 11/01/2025Location ProfileEndeavour Hills Specialist School is a rapidly expanding special education centre seeking to employ new Classroom teachers for 2025 to open several new classrooms, enabling us to offer more enrolment positions to students in need.Endeavour Hills Specialist School provides highly individualized programs of learning for students aged 5 to 18 with disabilities and high needs who have a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder with a language disorder and/or an intellectual disability.School participation maximizes life opportunities for children and young people by providing them with a comprehensive learning program and access to support networks. It also helps to develop important skills, knowledge, and values that set them up for further learning and active participation in their local community.VISION: The vision of the Endeavour Hills Specialist School community is to inspire students to achieve their personal best and become active and independent members of their community.MISSION: Our mission is to provide a blended curriculum of academic learning, high-interest programs, and therapeutic supports within a positive behaviours framework that will cater for each student at their point of need and encourage personal growth, independent learning, and sound social-emotional behaviours.OBJECTIVE: Endeavour Hills Specialist School's objective is to produce lifelong learners who are aware of their skills and strengths and have a positive attitude towards challenges and opportunities.VALUES: We have one value - BE KIND: to yourself, to others, and to the environment. We enact this value in our everyday actions and interactions - it is highly visible, explicitly taught, continuously modelled, and regularly celebrated.Our staff work in transdisciplinary teams comprising teaching staff, allied health practitioners, and education support staff to cater for the diverse range of student abilities and needs. This approach respects professional knowledge and expertise while also providing the opportunity for staff to learn from one another.Endeavour Hills Specialist School places the child at the centre of all decisions regarding learning and teaching. We hold high expectations for and of the learning community. Diverse learning needs are accommodated with differentiated learning and the application of a wide range of teaching strategies and learning technologies.Relationships are fundamental to ensuring positive engagement and collaboration across the school community. Endeavour Hills Specialist School staff explicitly teach, model, and demonstrate school and DET values in all their dealings with students, parents/carers, staff, and the broader community.ResponsibilitiesThe 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 ApplyTeachers 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.EEO AND OHS CommitmentApplicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.The Department of Education is committed to the principles of equal opportunity, and diversity and inclusion for all. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability, and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department.Child Safe StandardsVictorian 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.Contact:To apply for this role, you will be redirected to the Schools (Government) job application system.
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