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About this job
Position Information
Located on Ngunnawal land in the rapidly growing regional centre of Queanbeyan, Queanbeyan High School is a comprehensive high school educating 492 students from diverse backgrounds. 22% of students have English as an additional language or dialect and 14% of students identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Our school has 8 Support classes meeting a wide range of needs. The school team are committed to working to consistently improve the cultural safety of the school, for all students, families, and staff.
Proud of our ongoing history of graduates gaining places at universities, apprenticeships, traineeships, and employment our school consistently performs in the area of post school pathways. A focus on working as a community to build school readiness, work readiness and job readiness begins with a focus on attendance and personalised post school pathway planning. Respectful Responsible Learners underpins our focus on interactions with learning and each other to develop the skills for school readiness, work readiness and future readiness.
A collaborative community of practice is growing within and between our partner primary and secondary schools in the Queanbeyan Network of Schools which supports quality improvement across all schools.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approved or willing to teach French and/or Japanese and/or approved or willing to teach any Language (other than English).
2. Highly developed interpersonal skills with a demonstrated ability in building a culture of high expectations and strong relationships with staff, students, parents, and the wider community to support student outcomes.
3. Demonstrated capacity and commitment to developing innovative, engaging teaching programs and assessments to meet the individual needs of a diverse student body.
Conditions
The successful applicant may be eligible to receive a one-off recruitment payment of $20,000. (Conditions apply)
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.