Teacher Special Education - Moorebank High School

Moorebank High School is a dynamic partially selective and comprehensive high school situated in southwest Sydney. The school has 998 students with 1% of students from an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander background and 78% of students from a language background other than English. In 2021, Moorebank High School established a support unit with three autism support classes and will implement a multi-categorical class in 2027. The school is committed to extending its students through excellence in teaching and learning and collaboration with its partner primary schools and other comprehensive and selective high schools. Moorebank High School offers students and teachers opportunities for leadership and quality learning, and has a proud record of academic, sporting and cultural achievements. The school continues to refine a broad and differentiated curriculum, progressive welfare practices, and quality professional learning to ensure excellence in student learning outcomes. The school's priorities for the next year include growth and attainment, effective classroom practice, and community excellence. These are supported through innovation in areas such as whole school student engagement programs, the arts, quality mentoring, enhanced student leadership and student voice opportunities, and a deepening focus on building student resilience.

• Approval to teach students with autism (secondary) and mild intellectual disability (secondary) and demonstrated knowledge, understanding and experience in meeting the complex and diverse needs of students, including those with complex behaviours, through effective and responsive teaching and support practices.

• Demonstrated ability to design and teach high-quality, differentiated programs, informed by Personalised Learning and Support Plans, to meet the diverse learning needs of all students in a multi-stage setting.

• Highly developed communication, interpersonal and organisational skills with proven capacity to establish and maintain effective partnerships with students, staff, parents and external agencies to support the implementation of a new multi-categorical class and achieve positive outcomes for students

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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education’s Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.

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