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About this job
Position Information
Picton High School (1300 students including 150 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students) is a comprehensive secondary school in the Wollondilly Shire. We are located outside of Southern Sydney and have a regional outlook. Our school was rebuilt in 2022, with innovative learning spaces and specialist facilities. Students are offered a diverse curriculum including targeted literacy and numeracy programs in Stage 4 and extensive vocational education opportunities in stages 5 and 6. The school has seven feeder primary schools, approximately 100 teachers and support staff and eleven support classes. Our school prioritises wellbeing, literacy and numeracy and future-focused and innovative teaching practices to engage students. Our library, located centrally within the school, contains a range of digital and physical resources and is utilised by students as both an educational and social hub.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Library or currently undertaking or currently enrolled in Library qualifications approved by the NSW Department of Education
2.Capacity to innovatively manage a contemporary library learning environment encompassing the physical space, digital resources and software management systems.
3.Capacity to engage and support teachers and students from diverse backgrounds, in delivering effective teaching and learning, including developing student literacy, numeracy, research skills and critical thinking.
4.Capacity to manage and create resources and technologies to support evidence based future focused pedagogies and to deliver whole school professional learning in system and school identified priority areas.
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.
If applicable, engagement will be temporary until successful completion of the Teacher Library qualifications as recognised by the NSW Department of Education which must be completed within 24 months
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.