Selection Criteria

Principal

SC1        Vision and Values

Demonstrated capacity to create a shared vision, define and gain acceptance of school goals and set and communicate expectations for effective performance.

SC2         Teaching and Learning

Demonstrated ability to manage the quality of teaching and create a positive culture of challenge, support and collaboration.

SC3        Improvement, Innovation and Change

Demonstrated capacity to produce and implement clear, evidence-based improvement plans and policies and lead innovation and change. 

SC4        Management

Demonstrated capacity to ensure that the school’s human, physical and financial resources are efficiently allocated and managed.

SC5        Development

Demonstrated capacity to create a professional learning community that is focused on the continuous improvement of teaching and learning, supporting all staff to achieve high standards and commitment to their own learning and well-being.

SC6        Engagement

Demonstrated capacity to develop positive relationships with students, parents/families and the local community and participate in and contribute to system-level activities.

SC7        Community Criterion

A Community criterion may be chosen specific to the role

Assistant Principal

SC1        Educational leadership

1) Outstanding capacity for visionary and exemplary educational leadership of a school.

2) Highly developed skills in leading and managing change including the leadership of others in the process of change.

SC2         Financial, managerial and administrative ability

1)Outstanding financial, organisational and resource management skills.

SC3        Planning, policy and program development and review

1) Exemplary values appropriate to the development of student learning with a demonstrated capacity to achieve high-quality student outcomes.

2)Demonstrated ability to implement Department policies to a high level.

3) An understanding of, and a commitment to, the use of learning technologies to improve teaching and learning.

 SC4        Leadership of staff and students

1)  highly developed capacity to motivate staff, develop their talents and build an effective team.

2) A clear capacity to foster a learning environment that takes account of the individual needs of students and helps students to develop their special abilities and talents.

SC5        Interpersonal and communication skills

1)Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills in individual, small group and community contexts.

2) Exemplary values pertaining to personal qualities of objectivity, sensitivity and integrity.

3) An ability to work with parents and the community to develop a strong learning environment.

SC6        Community Criterion

A Community criterion may be chosen specific to the role

Leading Teacher

SC1        Demonstrated expert knowledge of the relevant curriculum. Demonstrated ability to lead and manage the implementation of school priorities, and the teaching of literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum.

SC2        Demonstrated ability to lead the planning and implementation 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 monitor and assess student learning at a class, cohort or whole-school level and use this data to lead improvement initiatives. 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 leadership skills. Demonstrated ability to lead collaborative relationships with students, colleagues, parents and the broader school community focused on student learning, agency, wellbeing and engagement.

SC5        Demonstrated ability to model behaviours and attitudes consistent with Department values and support colleagues to adopt these behaviours and attitudes. Demonstrated ability to reflect upon their own, others and whole-school practice and contribute to the provision of whole-school professional learning.

Learning Specialist

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.