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About this job
Position Information
Rosehill Public School is located in Western Sydney and has approximately 660 students K-6 and 80 part time preschool students and caters for the needs of a culturally diverse community 90% Non-English Speaking Background (NESB) with high aspirations for their children's learning success. The school is organised into stage and grade-based learning teams led by a dedicated and skilled executive team. Explicit, personalised and differentiated teaching in literacy and numeracy, underpinned by strong implementation of current research into effective teaching and its impact on learning, are focus areas in our school.
Our purposeful structures of cooperative planning, collective teacher efficacy and instructional leadership are strongly underpinned by high quality data-driven practice. Curriculum implementation in the Key Learning Areas is informed by evidence-based teaching practice. Rosehill Public School provides inclusive teaching and learning initiatives, ensuring opportunities that promote and celebrate diversity in teacher, student and community leadership. Our school community holds high expectations for our students. Quality teaching and learning is the uncompromising focus of the school. School directions are collaboratively developed and evaluated and teachers are actively engaged in best practice professional learning. Our parent and broader community highly value education and opportunities for student leadership and the school has a very committed and hard–working P&C who complement the educational and cultural experiences at the school.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach primary English as a Second Language and experience in the development and application of programs, tools and resources that scaffold the NSW Curriculum for EAL/D students.
2. Demonstrated experience collaborating with staff to implement EAL/D strategies into daily classroom practice for students.
3. Ability to use assessment tools, ESL Scales and EAL/D Learning Progressions to assess student language development and inform programming.
4. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively in a variety of teams and build positive relationships with all members of the school community.
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
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.