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About this job
Position Information
At Bowral High School we are committed to building positive relationships with students, parents and staff that support students to feel connected to the school and learn. Our student population, totalling 600, encompasses 54 Aboriginal students and a growing number of students from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
We want our students to have a sense of belonging at the school, to feel valued and supported and to have respectful relationships with their teachers and each other. Positive relationships underpin engagement, along with strong pedagogy and personalised learning.
Bowral High School has strong links to its community and its partner primary schools. A rich and challenging academic program exists side by side with opportunities in vocational education that offer students individual pathways to work, university, and TAFE or private colleges.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with Autism (secondary), Mild Intellectual Disability (secondary) and Emotional Disturbance (secondary).
Ability to deliver high quality, differentiated teaching and learning for a diverse range of students with a disability.
High level communication and interpersonal skills with students, staff, parents / carers and external stakeholders.
Capacity to develop, monitor and review ILSP's (Individual Learning Support Plans), PLP's (Personalised Learning Plans, Risk Assessments, Access Requests and Behaviour Management Plans to track student progress and improvement.
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.