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About this job
Position Information
Elderslie Public School (student enrolment approx. 543) is a school situated in Southwestern Sydney. The school currently has 20 mainstream classes, 5 support classes for students with Autism and 2 support classes for students with Mental Health. At Elderslie Public School, 9% of our students are Aboriginal and 18% of students are from a language background other than English.
Our vision is to create an innovative, inspiring, and inclusive community. We aim to empower our students through student agency and ensure they feel valued in a safe environment that celebrates cultural identity. A child's wellbeing is at the centre of all decisions, with each student's welfare being everyone's responsibility.
Our success is achieved by strong literacy and numeracy and specialised support programs. Our dedicated, expert teachers foster an environment that is driven by knowing our students well and knowing our content. Our teachers engage in deep professional learning on a range of innovative practices including visible learning. We foster reflection, passion and lifelong learning of all staff supported by collaboration and High Impact Professional Learning.
Our community is strongly connected with the school and is genuinely included in school decision making. This successful partnership is based on mutual respect and responsibility.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Infants and Primary, with a demonstrated ability to use data-driven practices to design and deliver high-quality literacy and numeracy programs that meet the needs of a diverse range of learners, and a demonstrated commitment to ongoing professional learning.
2. Proven capacity to work collaboratively with colleagues, students, and parents, demonstrating highly developed communication and interpersonal skills to build trusting relationships, and contribute to a positive staff culture and an inclusive and culturally safe school community.
3. Outstanding classroom management and highly developed skills to create and maintain a positive and inclusive learning environment with a focus on student wellbeing.
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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