Biology Teacher
Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat
- Expired
- Salary:
- Levels 1-12 of the Ballarat & Clarendon College Enterprise Agreement Teaching Scale ($72,480 - $106,301)
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- January 2021
- Apply by:
- 18 August 2020
Job overview
Outstanding opportunity to teach at Australia’s Top Co-educational School.
Winner 2019 Secondary School of the Year (Non Government)
Ballarat Clarendon College is unrivalled as Australia’s top co-educational school. We have an unwavering commitment to excellence that is evident in both our academic results and in the outstanding contribution our school and students make to our community.
Ballarat Clarendon College is seeking expressions of interest from teachers to commence in 2021 and welcomes applications from expert teachers. Graduates may apply.
Applications are invited in the areas of:
• Biology
• English
• Mathematics
• General Science
• Chemistry
Salary will be commensurate with the successful applicant's skills, qualifications and experience and will be based on levels 1-12 of the Ballarat & Clarendon College Enterprise Agreement Teaching Scale ($72,480 - $106,301). For further information visit our website www.clarendon.vic.edu.au.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat Clarendon College is a co-educational school associated with the Uniting Church. It is based in Ballarat, a rural city in the heart of Victoria, just over an hour’s drive from Melbourne, with a population of around 100,000 people. Approximately 1,600 students attend the school, from 3-year-old Early Learning to Year 12.
Ballarat Clarendon College is an equal opportunity employer and provides a non-smoking environment for all students and staff.
Before commencing work at Ballarat Clarendon College, teaching staff must be registered with the Victorian Institute of Teaching - https://www.vit.vic.edu.au/registering-as-a-teacher
Key Selection Criteria:
• Appropriate tertiary qualifications (including any additional certifications that provide ability to register for VIT).
• Strong curriculum understanding.
• Strong understanding of Child Safe Standards.
• Ability to effectively plan and design lessons.
• Commitment to and understanding of the process of formative assessment.
• Strong subject area knowledge.
• Proven ability to provide feedback to students.
• Solid understanding of how to analyse data in relation to student progress and teaching effectiveness.
• Commitment to continuous improvement in and out of the classroom.
• Proven ability to manage time and conflicting priorities effectively.
• Ability to communicate and interact with all Ballarat Clarendon College community members positively and appropriately.
• Experience working within a team environment.
• Proficient user of information technology.
Special requirements:
Please include your cover letter and resume. Applicants are required to address the Key Selection Criteria.
Applications close 19 August 2020
Attached documents
About Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat Clarendon College – where learning comes first
Throughout a student’s time at Ballarat Clarendon College our focus is to maximise their competence, skills and capacity so that, at the end of their time at the school, when they stand on the threshold of their future, they can choose their ‘heart’s desire’.
Ballarat Clarendon College is a community that values learning and the positive impact learning can have on young people and through them, the world. A carefully planned and sequenced knowledge-rich curriculum is married with a robust health, wellbeing and co-curricular program that ensures the whole child is supported and nurtured.
Our core values – learning, effort, responsibility, community and wellbeing – define the behaviours and attitudes by which we hold ourselves and each other to account. In seeking to enact these values, we draw upon the best available evidence. Teachers at Ballarat Clarendon College make use of explicit instruction, providing the appropriate level of modelling and guidance to ensure success. They believe that success in learning and motivation are mutually reinforcing.
For students to make optimum progress, the most important resource is the quality of the teaching. It is our responsibility to ensure that every opportunity for learning, in every context, for every student, is maximised, directed and supported. Clarendon is committed to continuous improvement in teaching practice. To deliver on this commitment, significant resources are allocated maintaining an exemplary standard of practice and to improving that practice in line with emerging evidence.
The curriculum provides students with diverse opportunities: from physical fitness and team sports, musical ensembles and theatrical productions to international study tours and involvement in local and overseas service programs.
Clarendon is a co-educational day and boarding school, enrolling students from Early Learning to Year 12. There is a Junior School (ELC to Year 4) campus and a Years 5 to 12 campus located in Ballarat and a residential program at Yuulong, just west of Cape Otway, where Year 9 students spend part of their year.
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