English Teacher
Ballarat Clarendon College
Australia
- Expired
- Job type:
- Full Time, Fixed Term
- Apply by:
- 28 February 2016
Job overview
Outstanding opportunity to teach at Australia’s Top Co-educational School.
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.
Throughout each student’s time in the College our focus is to build personal mastery within each individual so as to maximise the competence, skills and capacity to choose their heart’s desire when they stand on the threshold of their future.
For 2017 (or earlier start by agreement), Ballarat Clarendon College is seeking expert teachers in the area of English (including possibility of Head of Faculty). Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful applicant’s skills, qualifications and experience.
Interviews will be held in London and Dublin from 21 to 28 March 2016 or otherwise by arrangement.
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 85,000 people. Approximately 1,400 students attend the school, from 3-year-old kindergarten 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 Clarendon, teaching staff must be registered with the Victorian Institute of Teaching - http://www.vit.vic.edu.au/registration/apply-for-registration/Pages/default.aspx .
Key Selection Criteria:
Essential
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications, minimum four years study;
- Eligibility for VIT registration;
- Strong curriculum understanding;
- Ability to affectively plan & design lessons;
- Commitment to and understanding of the use of a range of assessment tools and techniques;
- Sophisticated knowledge of subject curriculum, study designs and continua;
- 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;
- Strong interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to build rapport with students, staff, parents and all other persons associated with Clarendon;
- Ability to communicate and interact with all Clarendon community members positively and appropriately;
- Previous experience working within a team environment with a focus on success and outcomes; and
- Proficient user of information technology.
Special requirements:
- Must be able to obtain an appropriate visa to work in Australia
Applications close 28 February 2016. For further information, and to apply, visit our website www.clarendon.vic.edu.au.
About Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat Clarendon College – different by design
Ballarat Clarendon College is different by design. Clarendon’s knowledge-rich and sequenced curriculum, its commitment to explicit teaching, approach to the structure of lessons, classroom management and data analysis makes it different from other schools – deliberately so.
At Clarendon, we believe that learning should not be a lottery. Students should never feel ‘lucky’ to have one teacher but ‘unlucky’ to be taught by another. If a teacher is supporting and progressing their students through a nuanced approach to a topic, a particular sequence of tasks, a more effective explanation or a striking analogy that illuminates a complex concept, then all teachers should know about and use those same methods. Everyone wants to get better.
We believe that all students deserve the best curriculum we can offer – one that draws from the research evidence that points to the effectiveness of a knowledge-rich curriculum, explicitly taught.
And this is what drives Clarendon’s approach to common planning, to developing a high-quality curriculum that contributes to better learning opportunities for students and for staff.
The approach that we take is not the same as other schools that pursue different pathways towards excellence, but it is what we do.
Clarendon’s commitment to professional learning – using research-based best practice to get better – ensures that our teachers, working closely with and learn from their colleagues, strive, thrive and achieve.
We are about learning. That might sound obvious for a school. Yet, to us, everything is an opportunity for learning – every interaction, every game, every performance, every calculation or paragraph. We are as much about teacher learning as we are about student learning.
And who would not be up for that? Who would not want to get better all the time?
Clarendon is not like other schools. Deliberately so. We are daring and we are intentionally and purposefully different.
If Clarendon sounds like the type of school that you’d like to be a part of, we’re keen to meet with you.
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