AddressKillarney Heights High School is a comprehensive co-educational school with a population of 1025 students, 43% EALD, located 20 minutes from the Sydney CBD in a bushland setting near the northern beaches of Sydney. The school has a strong tradition of high academic achievement, catering for individual student needs and providing a broad co-curricular program. The school is focused on quality teaching and learning, positive education and skills for the future, aiming to develop well informed, critical and creative thinkers with high resilience. The school community is committed to a strong learning culture with respect for others and aspiration to excellence in all endeavours.
Selection Criteria
Applicants must satisfy the teacher training and academic qualification requirements for this position.
- Approval to teach Physics and Junior Science with proven success in the classroom using explicit teaching practices.
- Demonstrated ability to deliver rigorous programs, which effectively assess student progress, provide quality feedback and differentiate to meet the needs of all students.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills with the capacity to build strong working relationships with staff, students, parents and the wider school community.
- Capacity to implement whole school Positive Behaviour for Engaged Learning framework to consistently to manage student wellbeing and behaviour.
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 (*****@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.
