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About this job
Position Information
Guyra Central School provides high quality, future focused, and personalised learning and teaching. We are a Kindergarten to Year 12 educational setting, fostering a culture of high expectations, wellbeing, and achievement for all. The school has a current enrolment of 318 students, including 32% Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.
Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) has a high profile and impacts significantly within the school to address student wellbeing and consequently, student learning outcomes.
Guyra Central School is in its third year as a Big Picture Education learning facility. Big Picture Education runs parallel to our mainstream curriculum, providing our 7-12 students with an alternative learning mode. Our Big Picture students do not follow the HSC pathway, with an option to enter university through portfolio. We currently have 46 students across our three Big Picture Advisory classes.
The school is well resourced with technology and state of the art learning facilities including a Trade Skills Centre for Metals and Engineering, Science Block, sensory learning area, gymnasium, and productive Agricultural farm. A new commercial kitchen/hospitality hub was completed during Semester2023.
The school has a 1.2 allocation for an Assistant Principal, Curriculum, and Instruction (APCI) a school social worker and Wellbeing Deputy Principal (ACIP) who works shoulder to shoulder with our existing K-12 Deputy Principal.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Technology Mandatory (Year 7 -8), Industrial Technology – Timber and Metals and Approval to teach or preparedness to undertake VET teacher training in VEG Metal and Engineering providing the qualification entry benchmark is met.
- Demonstrated capacity to develop, deliver and evaluate differentiated, evidence-based teaching and learning programs that integrate current and emerging industry-based technologies.
- Demonstrated capacity for effective classroom and workshop management and student wellbeing practices that promote positive relationships with students.
- Proven highly developed communication, organization, and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to work collegially as part of a team, and a willingness to contribute to whole school and faculty engagement programs.
- Demonstrated ability to develop extended community partnerships with parents, and the wider community, including industry and businesses, to promote positively whole school culture and deliver successful student engagement programs.
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.
The successful applicant may be eligible to receive a one-off recruitment payment of $20,000. (Conditions Apply).
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.