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About this job
Position Information
Gundagai High School is a small, comprehensive rural secondary school with 168 students with 12% Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander. School staffing entitlement is 24 teachers. The school is committed to continually improving effective classroom practices with staff professional learning being a key to ensuring this. This learning will ensure that both literacy and numeracy levels can be enhanced through improving teacher excellence, early data collection, analysis and action.
Learning and support is an important aspect of the school teaching and learning programs. We offer extensive support to students to reach HSC minimum standards, achieve in general school assessments and cope with the rigours of mandatory courses. Students with additional needs are catered for through a multi-categorical class with an inclusive focus across the school. The school attracts significant funding for low socio-economic background. As a result, the school provides high levels of access to technology across the school and commits to wellbeing activities for students.
The school utilises the location allowance subsidy to lease a school bus and car, providing greater access for educational experiences and activities that strengthen community connections for students. The school strives to maintain a strong culture of collaborative practice through regularly engaging with P&C, AECG, staff and students to share school decision making and resource allocation and by reviewing and gaining feedback on school policy and practice.
Student wellbeing is a high focus area for the school, recognising student participation, commitment, and community connections in line with the school values of Respect, Responsibility, and Integrity. The wellbeing team strives to provide quality initiatives that inform students about living life well and support networks available to them, allowing them to connect, succeed and thrive in the school and society. Students are encouraged to participate in a range of sporting and cultural opportunities, including learning about local Aboriginal culture. We offer extension and vocational education and training (VET) courses. Students have access to a broad range of post-school options within industry and tertiary education providers. All Stage 6 Science curricula are offered to students, with small classes and well-equipped laboratories and storerooms available. Science forms part of a combined cross-faculty staffroom.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach science with knowledge of assessment, curriculum and reporting requirements.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver engaging lessons that cater to all students, including practical activities, while consistently maintaining high expectations and positively supporting student behaviour.
- Well-developed interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with the capacity to build and support relationships and work collaboratively with teachers, support staff, parents and external agencies.
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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
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