Job Description
Location: Gippsland | Omeo
Job type: Full time / From 28/01/2025
Organisation: Schools (Government)
Salary: Salary not specified
Occupation: Teacher
Reference: 1451861
Location Profile
Applications are sought for a Teacher at our Dinner Plain Campus. The School for Student Leadership (Trading as The Alpine School) is an exciting and unique year-nine specialist school. The school has been operating for 24 years and more than 10,000 students have participated in that time both in Victoria and when an international operation was conducted in China from 2014-2019. It currently consists of four campuses.
All campuses are in regional Victoria and include:
* Alpine School Campus, Dinner Plain.
* Snowy River Campus, Marlo.
* Gnurad-Gundidj Campus, Noorat-Glenormiston.
* Don Valley Campus, Don Valley.
Forty-five students live, learn, work, play, recreate, and undertake adventures at the schools in a unique highly supported leadership education program. The school has modelled the educational program on an Experiential Education model, and at its core has a project/inquiry learning and social-enterprise focus.
A highly developed curriculum, pedagogical, assessment, and reporting approach relates to the Victorian Curriculum F-10 Capabilities.
An extensive outdoor, environmental, and adventure education program is an embedded part of the school learning program. All students participate fully in this as it is an essential component of the character education aspect of leadership and experiential education.
Roles and Responsibilities Specific to the Setting
As a result of the multi-campus operation and the residential 9-24/7 operation on each campus, the role requires a person with a flexible, enthusiastic, and team-oriented approach. All staff work in a close team environment with their colleagues, and a culture of collaboration, sharing, and feedback permeates this relationship.
* The Principal is the instructional leader in the school, the Ex-Officio member of council, direct line-manager to all staff but delegates this responsibility as required.
* The school Principal is currently primarily based at Snowy Campus and will be often mobile.
* The Campus Principals and the Leading Teachers will form the core of the teaching staff.
* The Education Support Staff are intrinsically connected to the successful outcomes that the school aims for.
* All teachers have a crucial role in coordinating and delivering a comprehensive outdoor education component of our program.
* Because of the unique nature of the operation of the school, the delivery of the programs involves a range of evening, overnight, early morning, public holiday, and weekend duties for all staff.
Selection Criteria
* SC1: Demonstrated knowledge of the relevant curriculum, including the ability to incorporate the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills.
* SC2: Demonstrated experience in planning for and implementing high impact teaching strategies, guided by how students learn.
* SC3: Demonstrated experience in monitoring and assessing student learning.
* SC4: Demonstrated interpersonal and communication skills.
* SC5: Demonstrated behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values.
* SC6: Demonstrated knowledge, skills or experience in teaching and learning related to education for year-nine students away from usual school settings.
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;
* 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.
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.
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