Classroom Teacher LOTE

Hampton Primary is situated in a quiet bayside suburb 13 kilometres southeast from the Melbourne CBD. The school was established in 1913 and has strong community participation. The school fosters a caring atmosphere with clearly defined expectations, where students can develop in a supportive and safe learning environment. We educate our students to be enthusiastic, curious learners who are individuals and productive community members. Today’s child needs to become a highly literate and numerate student who will develop, thrive and contribute as tomorrow’s adult by being a confident life-long learner. We strive for excellence in academic achievement and promote the development of the whole child through a strong co-curriculum that values the arts and active participation in sport. The school values drive the management of student welfare including the development of norm based classroom environments. The student wellbeing program and inquiry learning assist students to develop independence, confidence and resilience. We currently have 685 students. The school has 35.6 equivalent full time staff which includes 2 principal class, 4 leading teachers and 37.6 equivalent full time teachers, and 6.8 equivalent education support staff. We have a strong commitment to promote professional conversations and reflect on best practice using a team approach and educational consultants as critical friends

SC1 Demonstrated ability to productively contribute to a high performing professional learning team.

SC2 Demonstrated capacity to form, maintain and continually strengthen genuine relationships with students whilst delivering  Mandarin

SC3 Demonstrated high level knowledge of Mandarin and the way students learn; Capacity to respond at the school level to emerging educational needs and priorities, with a particular focus on Mandarin.

SC4 Demonstrated high level classroom teaching skills and the capacity to work with colleagues to continually improve teaching and learning in Mandarin.

SC5 Demonstrated ability to monitor and assess student learning data and to use this data to inform teaching for improved student learning in the area of  Mandarin.

SC6 Demonstrated high level written and verbal communication skills and high level interpersonal skills including a capacity to develop constructive relationships with students, parents and other staff.

SC7 Demonstrated commitment and capacity to actively contribute to a broad range of school activities and a commitment to ongoing professional learning to enable further development of skills, expertise and teaching capacity.

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;

- 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.

The Department values diversity and is committed to workforce diversity and equal opportunity in schools and all education workplaces. The Department recognises that the provision of family friendly, supportive, safe and harassment free workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work, diversity and safety across all schools and Department workplaces.

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. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the Department’s exemplar available at http://www.education.vic.gov.au/about/programs/health/protect/Pages/childsafestandards.aspx