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About this job
Position Information
Pagewood Public School is a learning community that strives to ensure its students become curious, confident, resilient and respectful members of Australian society. The school motto ‘Learning for Life’ supports our diverse educational environment with students from a wide range of cultural, socio-economic and linguistic backgrounds.
The school has an enrolment of 190 students with 8 mainstream classes including 7 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and 29 language backgrounds other than English. The diverse needs of our students are met by learning and support programs, high potential and gifted education and extracurricular activities.
There are strong, positive relationships between staff, students and families resulting in a cohesive community that values a safe and supportive learning environment, working cooperatively with the school's active Parent and Citizens Association.
School priorities include highly effective teaching programs and practices leading to improved reading and numeracy outcomes for students, commitment to staff accessing high quality professional learning at all stages of their career and an inclusive and rich curriculum with strong co-curricular activities for students.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Demonstrated proven ability to build and strengthen staff capability while successfully balancing the dual responsibilities of classroom teaching and leadership. Skilled in motivating teaching staff and fostering a positive and growth-focused school culture that supports continuous student improvement.
2. Highly developed skills in building collaborative partnerships with families and the community, demonstrated through leading school initiatives that enhance student engagement and promote inclusive participation.
3. Demonstrated exemplary classroom practitioner and a visible, approachable leader with outstanding interpersonal skills and the ability to foster a safe, supportive, and inclusive school community.
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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
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