Head of Department - West Perth, Australia - Department of Education, Western Australia
Description
Advertised Vacancy Number: IPS/SA883094
This is a permanent full-time position commencing Term 3, 2024
Rossmoyne Senior High School (SHS) is seeking to appoint an energetic, inspiring, and dynamic leader to take up a position as Head of Learning Area - Mathematics. This represents an exciting opportunity for you, as an instructional leader, to display the vision, experience, professional knowledge, and skills required to lead staff and students to academic excellence.
As Head of Learning Area, you will ideally have the ability to bring people together and work collaboratively with the members of the senior leadership team and the wider school community to provide educational leadership through developing and promoting the school's vision and strategic directions.
The successful applicant will ideally be responsible for the management of a large and diverse team. You should display a high level of understanding of the Australian Professional Teacher and Leadership Standards, the Western Australian curriculum, and innovative practice in the teaching of Mathematics. You should take on significant levels of accountability through the monitoring and tracking of student progress, reflect and assess the effectiveness of teaching practices, and engage staff to revitalise curriculum to ensure that teaching and learning programs are responsive to the needs of the 21st century learner. You will ideally implement collaborative practices to support positive futures for the students in our community and report against targets outlined in the school's Business Plan.
The successful applicant should embrace a personal commitment to the values of the school; integrity, connection, aspiration, respect, and excellence (iCARE). Additionally, teachers should embrace the school's pedagogical process including the application of key learning capabilities within teaching programs, ongoing performance development processes and the associated program of quality teaching strategies, including peer observation. Our staff should work collaboratively with their peers and other staff across the campus.
All staff should ideally have a focus on pastoral care, student wellbeing and a commitment to forming positive working relationships with students and colleagues. Staff engage with parents to assist student learning and ensure there are no surprises about student progress.
This position will include a teaching component.
As a Quality Teaching Strategy Lead School, successful applicants should ideally be familiar with the Teaching For Impact Framework and have an understanding of what effective teachers believe, know and do to support student success. Our current Business Plan focuses on our vision to "honour the culture, embrace opportunity and shape the future".