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About this job
Position Information
Narrandera High School is a comprehensive secondary school in the Riverina region, with a current enrolment of approximately 330 students where 30% of students identify as Indigenous.
Narrandera High School has an Aboriginal Learning and Engagement Centre (ALEC) , a Clontarf Academy and an Intervention Centre to support inclusive practice and personalised learning. There are also two multi-categorical classrooms in operation. NHS is a successful Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) school with a focus on restorative practice and positive relationships.
The school is committed to improving effective classroom practice with staff professional learning and collaboration being instrumental in achieving this goal. This learning will prioritise improving student literacy and numeracy levels through explicit teaching and effective data collection, analysis, and use. This underpins our belief that all students at Narrandera High School will make progress and achieve learning growth. Narrandera High School has a strong focus on building and maintaining a school culture where there is an expectation that every student, every teacher, and every leader will improve every year. The school is also committed to developing a learning environment that is strongly committed to the building of educational aspiration and high expectations. There will be a focus on effective partnerships in learning with students and parents to ensure that students are motivated to deliver their best and continually improve.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach Visual Arts.
- Ability to differentiate programs and learning to meet the needs of a diverse range of learners.
- Demonstrated effective classroom management practices to build positive learning outcomes.
- Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish and maintain positive working relationships with students, staff and parents.
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.