With 545 student enrolments, 70% of which come from a non-English speaking background, Georges River College Penshurst Campus is a comprehensive co-educational school. The school is diverse and inclusive and is well known for its excellence in education. Georges River College Penshurst Campus has a focus on quality teaching, high potential and gifted education and learning support within an environment where technology is strategically embedded.
All students are encouraged to achieve their personal best in a future focused environment that provides academic challenges and artistic, cultural and sporting opportunities. Georges River College Penshurst Campus is a high performing school with a strong learning culture and high expectations of students.
Approval to teach Special Education and/or demonstrated experience supporting students with Autism and diverse learning, communication, sensory, behavioural and wellbeing needs.
Demonstrated ability to design, implement and evaluate differentiated, personalised and data-informed teaching and learning programs using explicit teaching, evidence-based practice and high expectations to improve students' academic, social, communication, emotional and behavioural outcomes.
Demonstrated effective classroom management skills that create safe, inclusive and engaging learning environments, using flexible and adaptive strategies to support the diverse learning, communication, behavioural and wellbeing needs of students with Autism.
Highly developed communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated capacity to build and maintain positive, collaborative partnerships with students, parents/carers, colleagues and external agencies to support student learning, wellbeing, engagement and successful participation in school.
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.
How to Apply
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.
For technical support in applying for the role please contact School Recruitment Support at 1300 863 694.
