Location Profile Elwood College is seeking a dynamic and experienced instructional leader to join our leadership team in 2026. This is a unique opportunity for a visionary educational professional who is passionate about enhancing teaching practices, fostering an inclusive and positive school culture, and building strong, collaborative teams. Expert Curriculum Knowledge: Demonstrates expert ability to design and implement curriculum to build and progress students' literacy levels in a whole school approach. High-Impact Teaching Strategies: Demonstrates high level understanding of HITS and the VTML 2.0 and the capacity to implement best practice across the school to support the school's literacy aims and objectives. Exemplary Assessment and Data Use: Demonstrates a proven ability to seek, collect and use a range of data to examine and identify areas needing focus related to literacy and use data to monitor the effectiveness of literacy strategies and approaches. Exemplary Interpersonal and Communication Skills: Demonstrates exemplary ability to establish and build professional relationships and communication skills to assist in the implementation of literacy objectives across the whole school. Department Values and Professional Learning: Demonstrated ability to model behaviours consistent with Department of Education values and facilitate professional learning to help colleagues reflect on and improve their own practice. Our maxim "Together We Grow" reflects the collaborative approach to learning that is central to Elwood College. A co-educational secondary college situated in the heart of the leafy, seaside suburb of Elwood, Elwood College strives for academic excellence, to be a place where all students are empowered to learn and achieve. The student enrolment is currently 830 but can increase to 900 depending on international student enrolments. We focus on high quality teaching practice and the best conditions for learning to equip students with the knowledge, skills and dispositions for lifelong learning and shaping the world around them. We are passionately a government school and are proud to be the school of choice in the local area. Our values are Respect, Integrity, Care and Compassion. Our mission is to foster in students a love of learning; to build their resilience; to enable them to approach the future with optimism; and to provide students with the skills and attitudes that will enable them to be productive and responsible global citizens. Elwood College encourages students to pursue excellence in a culturally diverse learning environment through the development of positive, respectful and cooperative relationships. We have a high expectation that students will continue onto tertiary studies with enthusiasm and confidence. We focus on developing 'future-ready' students, equipped for life beyond school in a challenging local and global environment. Independent, inquisitive learning, and global perspectives are incorporated throughout the curriculum. A strong and motivated Student Representative Council ensures that student voice is heard. In addition to being an active subcommittee of school council the SRC hosts a number of events each year, including a wonderful Student Talent Show. Curriculum is designed to allow all students to participate in a wide range of purposeful learning experiences. Its structure ensures that students can build on their achievements and plan for the development of specialised skills in later years. With the recent completion of much of our ongoing building and grounds redevelopment program, students and staff learn and teach in a sophisticated, technologically well-equipped environment to meet the 21st century educational needs of teachers and students. We value collaboration and partnership with our families as well as with a range of community, educational, industry and government organisations both in Victoria and overseas. We encourage and support parents and families to be engaged in student curriculum activities, our school culture and environment. Elwood College has developed a sophisticated transition process, Second Storey, with our feeder primary schools, and we are working on building stronger relationships between primary, secondary and tertiary education settings to provide students with a continuum of learning and a strong sense of community. Global citizenship is fostered through real world contexts for learning. Our diverse student population, International Student Program and Sister City relations provide opportunities for open and sustained global communication and interactions. The Student Family Occupation Education (SFOE) index was 0.1844 in 2025. The staffing profile of Elwood College includes a Principal and two Assistant Principals, 72 teachers and 17.5 full time equivalent Education Support (ES) staff. 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 professional learning. Role Learning Specialists will be highly skilled classroom practitioners who continue to spend the majority of their time in the classroom delivering high-quality teaching and learning and have a range of responsibilities related to their expertise, including teaching demonstration lessons, observing and providing feedback to other teachers and facilitating school-based professional learning. Learning Specialists are expected to have deep knowledge and expertise in high quality teaching and learning in delivering improved achievement, engagement and wellbeing for students. The role of the Learning Specialist will be to model excellence in teaching and learning through demonstration lessons and, mentoring and coaching teachers in improving the skill, knowledge and effectiveness of the teaching workforce. The Learning Specialist role is aimed at building excellence in teaching and learning within the Teaching Service. Responsibilities In recognition of the importance of exemplary practice for improved student learning outcomes, the key roles of the Learning Specialists may include but are not limited to: Demonstrating high-level expertise in teaching and learning practice Modelling exemplary classroom practice including through teaching demonstration lessons Working with the school leadership team to develop a shared view of highly effective teacher practice Leading and modelling the implementation of whole-school improvement strategies related to curriculum planning and delivery Playing a key role in the provision of professional learning, including through developing processes and protocols for observation and feedback of teacher practice and peer collaboration Modelling effective learning practice and supporting teachers to seek, analyse and act on feedback and on their practice Providing evidence-based feedback to teaching staff to inform their effectiveness and development Providing expert advice about the context, processes and strategies that will shape individual and school professional learning Supervising and training one or more student teachers and mentoring and/or coaching teachers Modelling exemplary use of student data to inform teaching approaches Developing and promoting school-wide professional learning structures, processes and protocols through Professional Learning Communities Modelling exemplary professional learning practice included through seeking feedback from other teachers and leaders on their own classroom practice as part of critical reflection and inquiry to improve practice Who May Apply No job description available EEO AND OHS Commitment Applicants 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. 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. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines). Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via education.vic.gov.au 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, 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: https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy DE Values The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at: https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview Other Information No job description available Conditions of Employment No job description available Program Benefits No job description available VIT LANTITE To be eligible for employment, transfer or promotion in the principal or teacher class a person must have provisional or full registration from the Victorian Institute of Teaching. In addition, from 3 August 2020, to be eligible for employment in the principal class or teacher class, a person who graduated from a Victorian Initial Teacher Education program after 1 July 2016, must demonstrate that they have passed the literacy and numeracy test for initial teacher education (LANTITE) requirements. This condition is satisfied where the LANTITE requirement is part of the Victorian Initial Teacher Education program completed by the person.
