Teacher Learning and Support - Cheltenham Girls High School

Cheltenham Girls’ High School, with an enrolment of 1404 students, including 74% of students from a non-English speaking background, is a leading comprehensive girls' school with strong traditions. The school is committed to providing all students with opportunities to achieve excellence in all areas of student achievement. The school has dedicated and highly experienced staff and articulate and involved parents. School strategic directions include strengthening the partnership between the school and the community, supporting literacy and curriculum differentiation for all students across all key learning areas and supporting the delivery of high-quality teaching in every classroom.

Through the school’s learning and support team, the Learning and Support Teacher will provide direct and timely specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers. The emphasis in the role will reflect the needs of individual students, school priorities and programs that support student growth in Literacy and Numeracy. The role will be underpinned by a collaborative and consultative approach so that the student and their parent or carer are actively involved in the student’s education.

Find out more on the school website: https://cheltenham-h.schools.nsw.gov.au/

Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (secondary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (secondary) in regular classes

Teaching qualifications and recent school-based experience

Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students with additional learning and support needs in regular classes  

Recent experience working with individuals and groups of students to improve their literacy skills 

Capacity to support teachers to differentiate assessments and class work to facilitate student learning 

Demonstrated ability to plan, implement, model, monitor and evaluate personalised adjustments for learning 

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.

The role statement for the Learning and Support Teacher may be accessed at:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/content/dam/main-education/teaching-and-learning/disability-learning-and-support/media/documents/last-role.pdf

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.