City Cite - City immersion experience for secondary students

Staff Roles

To ensure that students thrive with City Cite's learning environment both staff from the visiting school and City Cite work closely together. This ensures that the academic and pastoral needs of the students are successfully met. Each class is staffed with two teachers: a City Cite teacher and a visiting school teacher. Together, they facilitate all aspects of the program.

School City Cite coordinator

The visiting school's City Cite coordinator communicates all of the required details for their cohort to ensure that City Cite is prepared to deliver a first-class experience for each student. This includes providing us with any important medical or learning issues.


Visiting school staff

Visiting teachers help to provide a safe and valuable learning experience. Visiting teachers know the students best and enable us to personalise the learning as much as possible. Student learning is most powerful when a visiting teacher is a teacher of the students and participates in the whole program with the class, and we therefore strongly recommend schools ensure class teachers attend City Cite.

This shared teaching experience enables a better transfer of skills, knowledge and understanding from City Cite to our partner schools. The school visiting teacher is also responsible for maintaining the standards and expectations of the school, which includes punctuality. The timetable for the program can be very busy and external providers such as venues and guest speakers rely on our punctuality. Note that start and finish times for your City Cite program may differ from your school's timetable, and therefore it is important to communicate these times with your staff and students.

City Cite Staff

City Cite staff will mentor and support students as they work on their learning enquiry. Staff will act as an informed source of knowledge and a conduit to educational sites in Melbourne. Our staff also have the prime responsibility for organisational aspects of the program.


City Cite staff will be aware of, and sensitive to, the ethos and teaching practices of the visiting school. They will develop co-operative partnerships with students allowing for decision-making opportunities for the students. Likewise, they will develop positive partnerships with client schools, their staff and parents with a view to providing programs that satisfy student goals.


Learning experiences/tasks have been designed with the Victorian Curriculum framework in mind. It should be noted that teaching within City Cite is collaborative, with the visiting school's staff team-teaching alongside City Cite staff. This encourages students to take responsibility within their group and to be active in the observation of group dynamics, fostering a positive, supportive and professional environment.

City Cite staff provide administrative structures for schools' programs to run efficiently and safely, are vigilant and knowledgeable in risk management issues associated with running a city-based education program. City Cite staff remain up-to-date in knowledge of contemporary Middle Years’ pedagogy and are actively involved in a range of educational networks.

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