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About this job
Position Information
Mudgee Public School has approximately 545 students across 19 mainstream and 8 support classes, serving a diverse rural community with a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds. With an Aboriginal population of around 22%, the school maintains a strong partnership with the Mudgee AECG. Our school is committed to providing a comprehensive education that emphasises curriculum differentiation, wellbeing, and learning support. We offer a broad range of cocurricular and extra-curricular opportunities in Creative and Performing Arts, Sport, and Leadership, with a particular focus on challenging and supporting High Potential and Gifted Education (HPGE) students to excel through diverse learning experiences. Our school motto is Friendship through Learning, and we aim to provide an environment that promotes the value of education and learning, to give our students the best opportunity to be active and informed members of the community. Mudgee Public School is a proud member of the Cudgegong Learning Community. More information about our current school priorities can be found by viewing our School Excellence plan: https://reports.sparo.schools.nsw.gov.au/plan-report/2026/2656/2026-2029_Mudgee_Public_School_SIP.pdf
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Special Education and/or experience teaching students with Autism and Behaviour Difficulties, with a strong commitment to and passion in inclusive education. Willing to teach mild and moderate intellectual disabilities, emotional disturbances and complex challenging behaviours
Work collaboratively with parents and carers, School Learning Support Officers (SLSOs), allied health professionals and multidisciplinary teams to empower student voice, independence, learning and wellbeing.
Demonstrated ability to plan, deliver, and assess high-quality, explicit teaching and learning programs that are aligned to the syllabus, highly differentiated and responsive to the individual needs of students with complex disabilities.
Demonstrated ability to apply strong classroom management skills with school-wide wellbeing practices, to support inclusion, integration and connectedness.
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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