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About this job
Position Information
Gosford High School is a selective high school catering for the needs of highly academic students. The current enrolment is 1075 students from Year 7 to Year 12. Gosford High School strives to ensure excellence through diversity and opportunity. The school provides a safe and supportive environment which supports high potential and gifted students to reach their potential. The ethos of academic excellence and personal best are at the core of the school’s vision and purpose. The school community is diverse with approximately 45% of students from language backgrounds other than English. This provides the school with a rich cultural context that encourages and celebrates tolerance and difference. Diverse and experienced staff bring a range of expertise and passion to the school. Student wellbeing, strong learning connections and partnerships with parents are important dimensions which enrich school excellence.
Specific Selection Criteria
1. Approval to teach Food Technology, Design and Technology, Textiles and Design, and Technology Mandatory.
2. Proven experience in developing and delivering Stage 6 teaching and learning programs that are responsive to the needs of high potential and gifted students.
3. Highly developed communication, interpersonal, and organisational skills to effectively collaborate with teachers in managing resources and to support the classroom learning environment.
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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