0242571744
About this job
Position Information
Albion Park High School is located on Dharawal Country at the foot of the Illawarra escarpment. The school is a richly diverse and complex comprehensive high school with a rapidly growing enrolment of approximately 1060 students, including 103 Aboriginal students. The school has 13 support classes comprising of 5 AU, 4 ED, 2 IM, 1 IO/IS and a Return to School Centre. We have a strong focus on creating a safe, happy and caring environment where every student is known, valued, and cared for. The school's current ICSEA is 972 and the school's FOEI is 111. The staff at Albion Park High School are committed to providing innovative and successful programs focusing on authentic, evidence informed initiatives and teaching pedagogies.
The Strategic Improvement Plan focus areas include student growth and attainment, wellbeing, staff growth and school and community partnerships. We have a strong learning and wellbeing culture, driven by Positive Behaviour for Learning frameworks, a signature pedagogy of Cultures of Thinking and a focus on high-quality learning experiences.
We continue our emphasis on the development of students who are active, critical, and creative thinkers. The school is committed to continually improving effective classroom practices with staff professional learning being the key to this growth. This learning will ensure that both literacy and numeracy levels can be enhanced through improved data collection, analysis and use which underpins our belief in individualised and differentiated learning.
General Selection Criteria
1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice
2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs
3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams
4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents
5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning
6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policy
Specific Selection Criteria
- Highly developed interpersonal and organisational skills to build authentic relationships with parents, carers and external agencies to enhance the wellbeing of all students and foster a positive school culture.
- Demonstrated ability or capacity to lead the wellbeing and learning and support teams to deliver a coordinated, whole school approach to improve outcomes for all students and foster a positive school culture.
- Vision or experience in establishing environments to support learning and wellbeing.
- Proven capacity to plan, coordinate, implement and evaluate whole school wellbeing programs, including analysis of data, to inform Strategic Improvement Plan initiatives.
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.