Teacher Personal Development, Health & Physical Education/Dance - Georges River College Hurstville Campus

About this job

Position Information

Georges River College (GRC) Hurstville Campus is a vibrant coeducational setting focused on innovatively meeting the needs of the students in Years 7-10. The school has an enrolment of approximately 325 students, with 86% of students from a non-English speaking background with increasing enrolments across the campus.

GRC Hurstville Campus works collaboratively with the other Campuses making up GRC: Penshurst, Peakhurst and Oatley Senior Campus. The school priorities Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL), ensuring the values of respect, responsibility and excellence underpin all school activities. A broad range of co-curricular programs complements classroom learning and supports strong student engagement both in and beyond the classroom.

The Support Unit at GRC Hurstville Campus includes three Autism (AU) classes and one Autism/Moderate Intellectual Disability (IO) class. The school has dedicated staff committed to academic excellence and student wellbeing, using evidence-based teaching practices to support student learning. High impact professional learning remains central to strengthening teacher practice and building collective efficacy across the campus.

The successful candidate will teach in the PDHPE Faculty and develop the Dance program across the school.

Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to contribute to faculty planning, whole school programs, and develop positive relationships with students, staff and the wider community

Specific Selection Criteria

Approval to teach PD/Health/PE and Dance

Ability to implement engaging and effective teaching strategies which cater for the individual needs of students with a diverse range of abilities, fostering a high expectations behaviour culture and student growth.

Well-developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to contribute to faculty planning, whole school programs, and develop positive relationships with students, staff and the wider community.

Conditions

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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees, neurodiverse people and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please contact the hiring manager using the contact details provided above. For more information, visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

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