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About this job
Position Information
Bowral is the largest town in the Southern Highlands, about 90 minutes southwest of Sydney. Bowral High School acknowledges its location on Gundungurra land and was established at this site in 1929. It is a comprehensive high school with a virtual selective stream (Aurora) and a support unit of seven classes. The student enrolment of 616 includes 75 Aboriginal students and an increasing number of culturally and linguistically diverse students. The school has a Family Occupation and Educational Index of 107 and serves families from Bowral, Mittagong and the northern villages of the Southern Highlands. Through effective partnerships, Bowral High School has collaborated with primary school partners to strengthen high school transition and with the broader community to build successful pathways beyond school, including work experience, vocational education and training, school-based traineeships and apprenticeships, university access and TAFE. We are a High Potential Gifted Education partner school and are invested to deliver challenging quality instruction that enables all students to access opportunities to meet their potential and extend their talent in one or more of the following domains: intellectual, physical, creative and social-emotional.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
1.Capacity to lead an experienced team and support all career stages to implement quality instruction using the teaching and learning cycle that reflects NESA Syllabi shows evidence-based pedagogy and differentiation that works for students.
2.Capacity to create provisions for your faculty to maintain safe and inclusive learning environments that enable student engagement with learning.
3.Outstanding interpersonal skills that reflect the values of the department, drives high expectations and promotes a positive team culture within the faculty and across the whole school with all stakeholders.
4.Ability to deliver effective teaching and learning programs designed to challenge, support and extend all students including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students.
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
The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here.
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 and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.