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About this job
Position Information
Glendenning Public School is proudly located on Dharug land, in the western suburbs of Sydney. The school serves approximately 440 students from Kindergarten to Year 6. In 2026, we will have two newly established multi-categorical support classes.
Our community is culturally diverse, with 86% of students born in Australia and 61% identified as English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D). The school community represents 30 different languages, with Punjabi, Gujarati, and Hindi among the most prevalent. We proudly support 28 students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Our committed teaching team foster a culture of collaboration, ensuring a shared vision that supports all students, teachers and leaders to grow. We prioritise high expectations, explicit quality teaching practices and the tracking of student growth.
Student data is used to guide our decision-making. As a restorative practices school, students are at the core of everything we do, ensuring every child is known, valued and cared for which is evident through our proactive and supportive approaches to wellbeing.
General Selection Criteria
- Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice.
- Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs.
- Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams.
- Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents.
- Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning.
- Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy.
Specific Selection Criteria
- In addition to the general selection criteria, approval to teach infants and/or primary with demonstrated ability to effectively balance the dual roles of an exemplary classroom teacher with the complex responsibilities of a leadership role, showing proven capacity to lead staff in the implementation of evidence-based, explicit teaching practices underpinned by high expectations.
- Demonstrate effective leadership in managing whole school wellbeing initiatives by positively contributing to wellbeing processes that enable students to connect, succeed, thrive and learn.
- Act as a visible leader, exhibiting strong emotional intelligence and outstanding interpersonal skills to initiate, mentor, build and strengthen positive partnerships in a diverse school community, with students, parents, staff and the wider community.
- Display proven ability to strategically and collaboratively lead data driven pedagogical change and professional learning that embeds quality teaching, high expectations, and differentiated instruction for all learners, focused on improving student learning outcomes with a specific focus on literacy and numeracy practices.
Conditions
An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement. If you do not hold a full approval to teach with the NSW Department of Education, you are required to commence the application process at the same time as you apply for this teaching opportunity.
Special Notes
Applicants are to include details of their WWCC clearance number as part of this application.
About the NSW Department of Education
The Department of Education is the largest provider of public education in Australia with responsibility for delivering high-quality public education to two-thirds of the NSW student population. We welcome applications from all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
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