Teacher English - Mount Annan High School

Mount Annan High School is a comprehensive co–educational school offering an extensive curriculum for 937 students, including a support unit of four classes and Aboriginal cohort of 5%. Our school motto is 'Be the best you can be' and our core values are: Co-operate, Respect and Strive. Student leadership is constantly supported through the SRC and our students have a very high positive profile in the community. Our school is situated on a beautiful, treed site and was established in 2003. We are very well supported in our community by our parents and local organisations, our P&C continue to work tirelessly to support our students and staff. Over 40% of our staff are new to the school in the past three years including most of the Senior Executive and Executive teams. Whilst we constantly strive for excellence, we test ourselves against our annual school targets and communicate via evaluation and feedback with our community on a regular basis. We aim to build a curriculum path that is as individualised as a student may need, striving to set attainable goals such as Literacy and Numeracy, HSC results, Wellbeing and Attendance, and moving all students forward to achieve these goals Our thorough situational analysis which involved deep consultation with all stakeholders outlined our need to focus on:

· Student growth and attainment in reading and numeracy through high impact professional learning focusing on whole school programs to support development.

· Staff growth and attainment through building quality learning environments and embedding collaborative practice within the school.

· High expectations and creating an aspirational culture within the entire learning community ensuring students connect, succeed, thrive and learn.

Our school is committed to providing rich programs to develop higher order skills in analysing, critical thinking, problem solving and technology enabling all students to 'Be the best they can be'.

• Approval to teach English (7-12), Approval and/or willingness to teach Extension 1 and 2 English.
   
• Proven ability to implement effective classroom management strategies and to plan and implement high-quality and differentiated teaching and learning programs to maximise student growth and promote high expectations for all students. 
   
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with an innovative English faculty and to contribute to whole school programs that aim to improve student well-being.  

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.

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.