excellence for equity in the pursuit of exceptional post school outcomes. The learning environment at BBHS provides students with tailored learning experiences through planned, explicit and differentiated learning activities. The school also offers a wide curriculum allowing students to successfully transition into a diverse range of future learning and employment opportunities. BBHS takes pride in being an inclusive community, working closely with local partners to ensure success for its students. The successful candidate will be a dynamic educator who can demonstrate impactful design and implementation of high-performance teaching and learning culture through capacity building in students, high expectations and engagement with the community.
Specific Selection Criteria
- Approval to teach English as an Additional Language/Dialect (EAL/D),
- Capacity to work effectively in a culturally and linguistically diverse school community, including supporting students from refugee and migrant backgrounds and delivering differentiated programs using the EAL/D Learning Progression to improve literacy outcomes across KLAs while fostering inclusive relationships within the School community.
- Strong collaborative practice, including the ability to work with mainstream teachers to embed EAL/D strategies across the curriculum and contribute to whole-school literacy and targeted support initiatives
- Effective classroom management and commitment to student engagement and wellbeing, including the ability to create structured, supportive learning environments using culturally responsive practices in a boys’ education setting
Conditions
This advertisement qualifies for permanent part-time employment; therefore, applicants seeking either permanent full-time or permanent part-time work are encouraged to apply. Candidates must indicate their desired FTE (up to the maximum FTE of the advertised position) in their application prior to submission.
Please note:
- The FTE selection is final.
- No changes (increase or decrease) will be permitted at the point of offer if you are the recommended applicant.
- If no FTE is indicated, it will be assumed you are seeking the full FTE of the advertised role.
Recommended applicants seeking part-time employment will be appointed at their nominated FTE. Any remaining FTE may be offered to applicants on the eligibility list, who are not obliged to accept. Further information can be found on the merit selection webpage.
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.
Special Notes
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.
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.
If you are new or returning to the Department of Education and have relevant prior professional experience, you can submit a Salary determination for classroom teachers application form to request a salary determination. Until the outcome of any such determination is confirmed, your salary offer will remain at Step 1 then be updated at a later date (typically a 1–2-week processing time post receipt of the form). For further details on this process, please see the Department’s policy here: Salary determination.
