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About this job
Position Information
Normanhurst Boys High School is an academically selective school of 750 students, with around 87% from language backgrounds other than English. It includes three autism support classes and has a strong wellbeing program where students are known, valued, and cared for. Student wellbeing and success underpin all decision-making. The school is dedicated to excellence in boys’ education, with a focus on meeting the needs of high potential and gifted learners. There is a strong culture of continuous improvement within a holistic learning environment built on high expectations and talent development. Students are offered rich opportunities to develop leadership skills and a strong sense of social justice, values, and civic responsibility. The school maintains strong partnerships with its community.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach English 7-12, with demonstrated capacity to teach English Extension 1 and 2.
- Capacity to differentiate teaching and learning programs to engage, challenge and inspire High Potential and Gifted learners to achieve academic growth and use a range of assessment strategies to gather, analyse, and interpret data to support positive student outcomes.
- Highly developed communication skills with a demonstrated ability to establish positive, respectful relationships with students, colleagues and families.
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.