Teacher Mathematics - Kotara High School

 Kotara High is a comprehensive co-educational high school located in the city of Newcastle with an enrolment of 1192 students and over 120 staff, with a 4% Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander student population. The school offers an extensive curriculum allowing for students to access post-school studies at work. 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 at Kotara High School and the whole community is committed to promoting its cultural and linguistic diversity.

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, Student Mentoring, the Senior Learning Hub, transition and vocational programs.. 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 2021-2024 School Improvement Plan, KHS will be focused upon a number of key areas including, but not exclusive to, improving the percentage of students in the top two NAPLAN bands, improving the percentage of students in both Band 5 and 6 in the HSC, and increasing the percentage of students attending school greater than 90% of the time. These improvement measures have been isolated from a deep situational analysis and collaboration with all stakeholders, including students, staff, community and AECG.

1. Approval to teach Mathematics (7-12) and approval and/ or willingness to to teach Mathematics Extensions 1 & 2.
2. Demonstrated capacity to utilise technology as a tool for effective teaching and learning.
3. Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to work cohesively with students, parents and staff.
4. Demonstrated implementation of effective literacy and numeracy practices and the ability to deliver differentiated teaching and learning programs to meet the needs of students with diverse backgrounds and learning needs.
5. Highly developed administrative and organisational skills with the ability to work collaboratively within a team environment.
6. Demonstrated capacity to implement strategies and programs into effective teaching practice which support student wellbeing.

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.

From 8 November 2021 all Department of Education employees undertaking relevant work, including any work conducted on a NSW school site, will be required to meet mandatory double vaccination requirements against COVID-19. The successful candidate for this position will be required to meet mandatory double vaccination requirements prior to the Department of Education finalising the appointment of the candidate and entry on duty. Further information on the Department’s COVID-19 response is available at https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19.

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, 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.