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About this job
Position Information
Kotara High is a comprehensive co-educational high school located in the city of Newcastle with an enrolment of over 1100 students and over 120 staff. The school offers an extensive curriculum allowing for students to follow a complete academic, vocational, or hybrid model of learning. Our students are highly motivated learners who excel academically across the curriculum. Students have built a strong sporting culture at the school, that historically, has been, and continues to be, competitive on a state and national level. There is a significant enrolment of Aboriginal students (4% of enrolments) at Kotara High School which is continuing to grow further, and the whole community is committed to promoting its cultural and linguistic diversity. Our Support Faculty is well established and respected within our community with a clear focus on inclusion, academic excellence and transition to further education and work.
The staff at Kotara High School is dynamic with various levels of experience and differing expertise. They are all committed with a strong ethos of collaboration, professional learning and continuous school improvement.
Recent initiatives that have had a positive impact upon our school include – the ALARM Matrix, Canvas implementation, Student Mentoring, the Senior Learning Hub, the literacy and numeracy and vocational education. Kotara High School has strong connections with its partner primary schools, The University of Newcastle, Ube High School in Japan and the business community of Newcastle.
Throughout the 2024-2027 School Improvement Plan, KHS will be focused upon a number of key areas including, but not exclusive to, improving student levels of literacy and numeracy through the external check-in assessment program, improving the percentage of students in both Band 5 and 6 in the HSC, and increasing the overall attendance rate of the entire student cohort. These improvement measures have been isolated from a deep situational analysis and collaboration with all stakeholders, including students, staff, community and the Muloobinbah AECG.
Specific Selection Criteria
Approval to teach Industrial Technology – Timber (ITW), Engineering Studies (ENS), Construction – General (VCG) and Manufacturing and Engineering (VEG) or preparedness to undertake Vocational Education and Training (VET) teacher training in Manufacturing and Engineering (VEG), providing the qualification entry benchmark is met.
Proven ability to use effective classroom management and the capacity to manage practical work spaces to ensure student safety and a culture of full participation in a range of practical contexts.
Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver engaging and differentiated programs to support diverse student learning needs, including Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander students, students from a non-English speaking background and students requiring learning support.
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.