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About this job
Position Information
Pendle Hill High School is a comprehensive, co-educational school with an enrolment of 650 students from Years 7 to 12. A rapidly growing school enrolment includes 60% of students from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds, as well as students with a range of learning support needs. Our school has a high potential and gifted education class in each of Years 7 to 10, as well as a Support Unit for students with a range of disabilities.
Our school community is committed to improvement, personal best in student learning and achievement, quality teaching and equity in educational opportunities and outcomes. Our strategic directions are Reading and Numeracy, Attendance and HSC Pathways. Our school is focused on identifying and embedding effective systems and structures that improve learning and wellbeing outcomes for students and staff and support a culture of high expectations and collaborative teacher professional learning and work.
A newly completed major building and refurbishment project provides new facilities such as a modern Library and resource centre, lecture theatre, seminar and multimedia spaces as well as outdoor learning spaces and flexible classroom spaces. We provide a broad curriculum for our students, taking advantage of our new facilities and flexible learning approaches.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach secondary English as an additional language or dialect or currently undertaking or currently enrolled in English as an additional language or dialect qualifications approved by the NSW Department of Education.
· Ability to work collaboratively to plan and deliver engaging and differentiated teaching and learning programs and supports that meet the needs of EAL/D learners and foster a culture of high expectations
· Demonstrated commitment to improving student learning through explicit teaching, assessment and effective feedback
· High level interpersonal, communication and organisation skills and the ability to build positive and effective relationships with students, staff and parents so that learning outcomes improve
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 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
This is a permanent part time position for (4 days per week) 0.8FTE (full-time equivalent)
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.