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Camden High School is a fully comprehensive coeducational high school that caters to approximately 1009 students, including 73 Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students, as well as 6 special education classes for students with identified learning needs to increase to 7 in 2023. Our school has strong ties to the local community and is highly regarded for the broad range of opportunities and social experiences offered to the students. We pride ourselves on our ability to support students in their transition into post school pathways through traineeships, employment and tertiary education options. We are one of the largest providers of school based traineeships in the region and offer extensive opportunities for student to pursue vocational education pathways through the Macarthur Trade Training Centre arrangement. In Years 7 and 8, we offer an academically selective class, which provides scope to extend these students in their educational abilities as well as a fully supervised HSC Hub to support senior students striving for academic excellence in their Higher School Certificate exams. Camden High School has a strong sporting culture, especially through the sporting exchange program with Cowra High School, which has been running for over 50 years. We also encourage students to pursue agricultural, technological, creative arts and performing arts experiences at school. School priorities include wellbeing, literacy, numeracy, Aboriginal education, as well as engagement and future focused learning.
Selection Criteria
Approval to teach and/or willingness to teach students with autism (secondary), mild intellectual disability (secondary), behaviour difficulties and emotional disturbance (secondary)
Ability to design and teach quality, differentiated educational programs and develop and implement Personalised Learning Support Plans and Behaviour Management Plans for students with a wide range of individual learning needs.
Outstanding classroom practice which creates a positive and inclusive learning environment with high expectations that promote student engagement and connection.
Demonstrated high level communication, interpersonal and organisational skills to build positive relationships with students, staff, parents and the community with a demonstrated willingness to contribute to whole school 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 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 ( ) or visit
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