Coach in ICT Capability - Mornington Island State School

Mornington Island State School is currently seeking a dedicated and passionate Coach to join their dynamic workforce of teaching professionals to drive student and teacher engagement with the Australian Curriculum General Capability: ICT Capability.

Job details
Position status: Fixed Term Temporary
Position type: Full-time
Occupational group: Education & Training
Classification: Teacher
Workplace Location: North West Qld
Job ad reference: QLD/NQR368591/21
Closing date: 01-Apr-2021
Yearly salary: $109092 - $109092
Fortnightly salary: $4181.50 - $4181.50
Job duration Commence: 19 April 2021 until 3 December 2021
Contact person: Luke Bowering, Principal
Contact details: Ph: (07) 4747 9333 | Em: lobow0@eq.edu.au
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Your role will include:

• Coach and mentor teachers to embed practice that develops students' Digital and ICT Capability across all Learning Areas
• Co-Design with the Leadership Team relevant policies and procedures to support the resourcing and implementation of ICT Capable Curriculum
• Support innovative implementation of the KLA: Digital Technologies, integrated across other Learning Areas
• Manage all relevant hardware and software - from Server to Classroom
• Liaise with EQ ICT Support to troubleshoot and maintain a high level of ICT operational capability across the school.

Mornington Island State School (MISS) is a Remote Indigenous Community School located in the Gulf of Carpentaria. At MISS we share a strong commitment to providing 21^st Century Education to ALL students, regardless of their location or Cultural Background. We are also committed to our students developing their ICT Capability through learning, exploring and expressing their local Indigenous Culture and Language.

If you are a teacher with a few years' experience, who is passionate about using technology to excite and engage students, and to stimulate their Critical and Creative Thinking, and you are ready for the exhilarating challenge of helping to build a Digitally Capable 21^st Century School in one of the Remotest parts of Australia…then we absolutely want to hear from you.

Contact load would be around 50%, mostly in an instructional coaching / co-teaching role. The remainder of your time would be spent implementing and maintaining ICT infrastructure across the School.

It is highly desirable for applicants to have a current Orange Card, or be willing and able to obtain an Orange Card soon after starting the role.

Applicants for this position must possess:

• A relevant teaching qualification.
• Current full registration or current provisional registration with eligibility for full registration, as a teacher in Queensland. Pre-service/graduate teachers must have been granted provisional registration prior to commencing employment as a teacher. 
• In addition to registration, teachers working in Education and Care Services (including State Delivered Kindergarten programs) require an exemption card issued by Blue Card Services. 

Applicants are encouraged to commence and submit their application as early as possible as the Department of Education reserves the right to reduce the application period and/or remove the job advertisement  early should a suitable applicant be found.