About this job
Location: Temora, NSW
Employment Type: Temporary
Employment Status: Part-time
Salary Range: $76,754 to $129,948 full-time equivalent plus superannuation. Salary is determined based on years of teaching service.
Start Date: January 2025
Closing Date: 11.55 pm, Sunday 17 November 2024
About St Anne's Catholic College
St Anne's is a community that encourages all students to value and respect themselves and others in their journey of faith, learning and life. We strive for excellence and enthusiastic participation in all activities and provide opportunities for growth across all areas of human endeavour, including the spiritual, the moral, the intellectual, the social, the emotional and the physical.
About the Role
As a Library Teacher, you play a key role in fostering students’ academic growth and a love of learning. You teach essential information literacy skills, helping students navigate both print and digital resources. By promoting reading for pleasure, you inspire curiosity and creativity, while also guiding students in digital literacy and research. Working closely with teachers, you support the curriculum with curated resources, encouraging critical thinking and independent learning. The library becomes an inclusive, welcoming space where all students can explore ideas and develop skills that will serve them for life.
Benefits and Opportunities
- A positive and collaborative workplace culture
- Extensive training in our high-quality professional learning program, Catalyst
- Access to curriculum resources that support evidence-based, high-impact teaching practice
- 24 weeks of paid parental leave (maternity/adoption)
- Up to 14 weeks of paid parental leave (paternity/non-initial primary carer leave)
- Support for professional development and study opportunities
- Opportunities to transfer to other schools within the Archdiocese across ACT and NSW to support lifestyle choice
Key Responsibilities
- Create a learning environment that stimulates learning promotes excellence and accepts and acknowledges the needs of students to be both challenged and supported.
- Use a variety of teaching and learning techniques to meet individual needs.
- Identify learner needs, conferring with specialist staff in the school when necessary.
- Present and explain assessment criteria to students in advance.
- Provide timely and useful feedback about completed assessment items for students.
- Communicate in a clear, respectful, and professional way to optimise each student’s development.
- Maintain professional confidentiality on information about students.
- Be proficient in the use of IT as a teaching and administrative tool.
- Plan, prepare, record, and evaluate work to be undertaken by classes.
- Mark and assess students’ work and keep complete and accurate records of each student’s progress.
- Communicate with parents in written reports and parent-teach interviews and at other times as required.
- Communicate with and establish effective and cooperative working relationships with staff.
- Undertake playground, class, and other supervision according to rosters as required.
- Work with colleagues to review and develop the curriculum and write course documents.
- Keep abreast of knowledge and curriculum development in teaching areas as well as current developments in educational thinking.
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Teaching or Master of Teaching.
- Working with Vulnerable People (WWVP) and Working with Children’s Check (WWCC) registrations.
- Teaching Quality Institute (TQI) accreditation and NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) accreditation.
Selection Criteria
- A thorough knowledge of the Australian Curriculum with the ability to organise, select and design content for effective teaching and learning.
- Highly effective communication and interpersonal skills to engage positively with colleagues, students, and parents.
- The capacity to be a proactive member of a professional learning community complying with the legal, administrative, and professional requirements.
- Classroom practices and organisational skills that create supportive and safe environments for all students, including meeting a variety of learning needs.
- A comprehensive understanding of assessment and reporting strategies and the need to provide effective and timely feedback to parents and students.
Please refer to the position description for in-depth details regarding the position duties, criteria, and skill set required.
Other Eligibility Criteria
- You must be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident to be eligible to apply for this position.
- Appointment is subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment in accordance with CECG policy.
Application Process
Applicants are required to submit a current resume and a cover letter that addresses the selection criteria as outlined in the Position Description.
This position involves working with children. The appointment of successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory employment screening for child-related employment in accordance with CE policy.
For further information about the School please visit our website. Information about the Catholic Education Archdiocese of Canberra & Goulburn can be accessed here.
Position-specific queries: Please contact Grant Haigh on 02 6977 1011 or via email grant.haigh@cg.catholic.edu.au.
Application queries: Please contact the Recruitment team on 02 6234 5427 or via email recruitment@cg.catholic.edu.au.
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