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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 1,080 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 2021 – 2023 are the explicit teaching of literacy and numeracy across the school, collaborative practice, and differentiation. 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 special education and / or experience teaching students with autism, behavior difficulties and complex needs within a support class setting.
2. Demonstrated ability to differentiate the curriculum, cater for cross stage learning and develop personalised learning plans that respond to the learning, social and emotional needs of students with complex disabilities.
3. Demonstrated successful classroom management with a flexible and open approach, creating a positive learning environment that promotes student wellbeing, engagement authentic relationships and success.
4. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the proven capacity to work collaboratively in teams with students, families, staff, external agencies and the wider school community to promote a culture of inclusion.
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.