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About this job
Position Information
Cheltenham Girls’ High School with an enrolment of 1400 students, including 69% students from a non-English speaking background, is a leading comprehensive girls' school with strong traditions. The school is committed to providing all students with opportunities to achieve excellence in all areas of student achievement. The school has dedicated and highly experienced staff, and articulate and involved parents. School strategic directions include strengthening the partnership between the school and the community, supporting literacy, numeracy and HSC. Curriculum differentiation is implemented for all students across all key learning areas and supporting the delivery of high quality teaching in every classroom. The school enrols an HPGE class in Year 7 each year. This position involves managing a faculty of diverse skills and abilities and working collaboratively to support the delivery of whole school improvements in teaching and learning.
General Selection Criteria
Specific Selection Criteria
Demonstrated ability to lead the analysis of data to direct effective, evidenced based pedagogies for improved student learning outcomes for a diverse range of learners including HPGE students.
Capacity to lead and manage a diverse faculty at a variety of career stages in professional learning to support the development and implementation of new syllabus courses with quality teaching, learning, and assessment programming in Social Sciences.
Highly developed communications and interpersonal skills with the ability to provide strong educational leadership to create a cohesive and collaborative learning environment supporting student wellbeing and a culture of high expectations
Demonstrated capacity to work as a dynamic middle leader and member of the executive team to lead and support initiatives that address whole school strategic directions in literacy, numeracy and HSC for continuous improvement.
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.