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About this job
Position Information
Menai High School is a comprehensive, co-educational high school located in Illawong, Sutherland Shire on the southern outskirts of Sydney region with an enrolment of 1,078 students in 2024. The student population is comprised of approximately 35% LBOTE, 13% EALD and 19 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Menai High School offers an extensive curriculum with a focus on academic excellence, student welfare and extra-curricular programs. Areas of focus for the school plan 2024 – 2027 are the explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy across the school, student engagement, differentiation, and community connections. Our students are highly motivated learners who excel academically across the curriculum. The school prides itself on its academic record and on-going commitment to high standards of student improvement.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Personal Development, Health and Physical Education (PDHPE), Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation (SLR), Physical Activity and Sports Studies (PASS), Community and Family Studies (CFS) and Geography (Years 7-10).
2. Demonstrated ability to plan, implement and deliver a range of explicit teaching strategies and differentiated learning that will improve outcomes for all students at all levels of learning.
3. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively as part of a team to contribute to faculty and whole school initiatives and programs.
4. Capability and willingness to engage with the school’s strategic directions and be part of a community committed to the learning and well-being needs of students.
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
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