Classroom Teacher Foundation Year

Description:

This is a full-time teaching position in a Foundation classroom of 22 students. The position is a maternity leave replacement teaching position and will be a contract position commencing at the beginning of August 2023 until the end of the year. There will be an opportunity to extend the contract into 2024.

Our Lady of the Way is committed to teaching reading, writing and spelling using the body of evidence that underpins the science of reading and science of learning models to teach explicitly. Our Lady of the Way is willing to coach, mentor and support interested teachers who wish to teach in an evidence based way.

Graduates are encouraged to apply. Teachers who wish to be fully immersed in evidenced based teaching methods and are wishing to learn are also encouraged to apply.

This position has the possibility to have the Student Wellbeing Leader in addition to this role.

Applicants require:

• a passion for teaching
• a willingness to actively participate in the school's coaching and mentoring processes
• an ability to show an understanding or a commitment to learning the cognitive science models needed to teach literacy
• the ability to show differentiation in teaching to accommodate a range of abilities
• an understanding and practical implementation of the use of data to inform teaching and learning
• Current registration with the Victorian Institute of Teaching
• Accreditation to Teach Religious Education or a willingness to undertake accreditation.