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About this job
Position Information
Cheltenham Girls’ High School is a leading comprehensive public school for girls, with an enrolment of 1,408 students—78% of whom come from a language background other than English. The school has a proud tradition of academic, cultural, and social excellence and is committed to providing every student with the opportunity to succeed across all areas of learning and development.
The school community is supported by a team of dedicated, highly experienced staff and by articulate, engaged parents. Strategic directions focus on enhancing student growth and attainment, strengthening literacy and curriculum differentiation across all key learning areas, and ensuring the consistent delivery of high-quality teaching in every classroom.
More information can be found on the school website:
https://cheltenham-h.schools.nsw.gov.au
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach Biology and Earth and Environmental Science, with a willingness to teach Investigating Science.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the Junior Science, Biology, and Earth and Environmental Science syllabuses, with the ability to design effective, differentiated learning experiences that incorporate explicit teaching practices, including strategies to support the learning needs of high potential and gifted students.
- Demonstrated ability to foster strong student engagement in science by creating a positive, inclusive learning environment that incorporates effective hands-on experiments, connects scientific concepts to real-world applications, and integrates high-quality assessment tasks using appropriate technologies to enhance learning and accurately assess student achievement.
- Demonstrated capacity to foster student wellbeing through positive relationships with students, parents, and staff, supported by high-level interpersonal and communication skills.
- Capacity to collaborate effectively as part of a team to achieve faculty and whole-school goals, while building strong partnerships with students, colleagues, parents, and the broader school community.
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
This is a permanent part-time position of 4 days per week, 0.8FTE (full time equivalent)
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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