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About this job
Position Information
Northern Beaches Secondary College (NBSC) Mackellar Girls Campus is a successful girls' secondary school with an enrolment of 1000 students. The school sets high expectations for student learning, behaviour and school values. While academic excellence is highly valued and supported, the school encourages it's students to take part in a broad range of learning activities including cultural, physical and social to challenge and develop students in a safe and happy environment. The school creates and stimulates a learning environment where students are encouraged to achieve their personal best and are keen to learn.
NBSC Mackellar Girls Campus is one of five campuses in the Northern Beaches Secondary College, which provides our students with opportunities to access a wide range of enrichment and curriculum choices, including a comprehensive range of academically challenging HSC subjects and access to a range of TAFE courses.
The school population comprises girls from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with 27% from a language background other than English, predominantly Chinese, Tibetan, German, Italian and Spanish. The campus' Higher School Certificate results are exemplary with an 17% success rate for Band 6 attainment. This academic excellence is supported by rigorous teaching and learning programs, wellbeing programs and a comprehensive co-curricular program.
NBSC Mackellar Girls Campus' culture of students aspiring and striving to achieve their personal best is supported by the vision of aiming to develop independent, resourceful and tolerant young women, equipped with the personal, social, academic and technological skills necessary in a changing world.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Aboriginal Studies, Modern History and History Extension
2. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with the faculty to develop, implement, deliver and evaluate effective teaching programs and resources to improve student engagement and learning outcomes.
3. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to contribute to faculty and whole-school programs and build positive relationships across 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, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion
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