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About this job
Position Information
Prairiewood High School is a co-educational, partially selective, comprehensive secondary school located in Wetherill Park in Sydney's South West on Dharug land. The school has a stable enrolment of approximately 1280 students. This includes 60 students in each year in the selective stream and four Support Unit (Autism and IO) classes across Years 7 to 12. 87% of students have a Language Background Other Than English (LBOTE) and students represent 30 countries of origin. Approximately 50% of the students population requires English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D) support which has been steadily increasing. Currently 18 students identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background. Find out more on the school website, at https://prairiewoo-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach
1) Personal Development Health and Physical Education (PDHPE), Sport, Lifestyle & Recreation, Community and Family Studies, and Exploring Early Childhood.
2) Demonstrate the ability to effectively implement teaching programs that integrate literacy, numeracy and differentiated practice.
3) Collaborate effectively in a dynamic school by utilising highly developed interpersonal skills to build positive relationships with students, staff and the community.
4) Commitment to actively participate and contribute to faculty and school-wide initiatives and programs.
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.