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About this job
Position Information
James Busby High School is a diverse and inclusive co-educational comprehensive high school located in south-west Sydney with an enrolment of 548. Our setting includes a large and dynamic Special Education Unit comprising 10 classes, with 96 enrolled students. We celebrate our multicultural student body that includes 41 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students, as well as 81% of students from a language background other than English.
At James Busby HS we are committed to delivering outstanding leadership, teaching and learning through our strong commitment to excellence and equity within Learning, Teaching and Leadership. We commit to practices that transform the learning lives of our students and to growth and attainment in literacy and numeracy and the Higher School Certificate by providing a curriculum that is rich, authentic and responsive to individual student needs. Our extensive support structures for students and staff guide us in meeting the complex learning needs of our diverse student body.
Underscoring our philosophy is our approach to trauma-informed practice and our core values that greatly enhance the wellbeing of our students and behaviour management. We continue to build the capacity of staff empowering them to maintain safe inclusive learning environments that deliver quality learning experiences enriching students' ability to connect, succeed, thrive and learn.
We continually strive to create opportunities to grow the potential of our students and recognise their strengths and capacity across the academic, social/emotional, physical and creative domains. We deliberately support student potential through a significant number of curricular and extra-curricular offerings. Excellence underpins these programs, which remain a central focus for our school.
Specific Selection Criteria
1.Approval to teach History 7-10, Modern History and Ancient History.
2. Deep curriculum knowledge with demonstrated commitment to improving academic achievement through effective feedback and assessment.
3. Demonstrated effective classroom management skills which promote an engaging and inclusive learning environment, fostering a culture of high expectations.
4. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills that build positive relationships with staff, students, school community, and a collaborative HSIE faculty.
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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