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About this job
Position Information
Willoughby Girls High School (enrolment 1020 students, including 55% students from a language background other than English and 3 supported learning classes) is recognised as a leader in girls’ education with a strong reputation for academic excellence. The school has a highly motivated staff and an engaged parent community who support students’ academic, social and personal growth through a focused learning environment and a broad range of co-curricular opportunities. The school’s philosophy is based on achieving individual excellence, enhancing an established culture of learning, encouraging independent, collaborative and lifelong learners, and developing good citizens and leaders.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach History (Years 7 – 10), Ancient History, Modern History and Society and Culture.
- Highly developed communication, interpersonal and organisational skills to build positive relationships with students, staff, parents and the community.
- Demonstrated capacity to differentiate curriculum and develop innovative, engaging teaching and learning programs, that cater for a diverse range of students' needs, inspiring growth, and improvement in student outcomes.
- Ability to work as a collaborative member of the History faculty and contribute to designing, implementing and evaluating high quality teaching and learning programs and assessments.
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.