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About this job
Position Information
Auburn Girls High School is a partially academically selective and comprehensive high school with an enrolment of 850 girls, 98% of whom have a language background other than English. The school has increasingly achieved outstanding HSC and NAPLAN results. This is due to a strong commitment to building collective teacher efficacy and using evidence-based practices to target areas including literacy, numeracy and HPGE. Auburn Girls High School has developed a strengths-based Positive Education wellbeing platform where every student is known, valued, and cared for within a culture of high expectations and academic rigour.
Our school's vision statement is "Auburn Girls High School is a centre of excellence in girls' education". This can be seen through not only academic results but also through the commitment to student leadership and the thriving extracurricular programs such as sport, dance, school band, debating and competitions. The school's motto is: Learn, Lead, Succeed.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach Economics, Legal Studies, and willing to teach 7-10 Geography
- Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver engaging and effective teaching programs that meet syllabus and curriculum reform requirements for diverse learners including High Potential Gifted Education (HPGE), and English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D).
- Well-developed interpersonal, communication, and organisational skills with the capacity to work collaboratively with students, teachers, staff and parents.
- Demonstrated ability to use effective classroom management skills and wellbeing practices to create an engaging, inclusive learning environment that fosters a culture of high expectations
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.