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Chemistry Teacher for 2019 (or earlier by agreement)

Chemistry Teacher for 2019 (or earlier by agreement)

Ballarat Clarendon College

Ballarat, Victoria

Job type:
Part Time, Full Time, Permanent

Job overview

Outstanding opportunity to teach at Australia’s Top Co-educational School.  

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 1,500 students attend the school, from 3-year-old Early Learning to Year 12.

For 2019 (or earlier start by agreement), Ballarat Clarendon College is seeking expert teachers in the area of Chemistry. Teachers of other subject areas who are interested in working at Ballarat Clarendon College are also encouraged to apply. Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful applicant’s skills, qualifications and experience.

Interested applicants are required to apply via our website and are required to submit an application/cover letter, up-to-date resume, including details of two professional referees, and a statement addressing the Key Selection Criteria.

Before commencing work at Clarendon and throughout a teacher’s time at Clarendon, teaching staff must be registered with the Victorian Institute of Teaching.

Ballarat Clarendon College is an equal opportunity employer and provides a non-smoking environment for all students and staff. 

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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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