Teacher Technology - Lightning Ridge Central School

Lightning Ridge Central School has a multicultural enrolment of approximately 320 students, including 54% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students.The school has a vibrant, energetic and caring learning environment and excellent, well maintained facilities. There is a strong and supportive staff, including a school executive who work across the whole school K-12. The school is focused on the needs of students and has established supportive community links. Current school priorities include explicit instruction, welfare and engagement. All staff develop and provide an appropriate, quality, differentiated curriculum. Lightning Ridge Central School is included in the Rural & Remote Strategy, is an 8 point school and as such attracts additional incentives, including a 90% rental subsidy. Teaching Housing is available.

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Lightning Ridge Central School has a multicultural enrolment of approximately 320 students, including 54% identifying as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander students.The school has a vibrant, energetic and caring learning environment and excellent, well maintained facilities. There is a strong and supportive staff, including a school executive who work across the whole school K-12. The school is focused on the needs of students and has established supportive community links. Current school priorities include explicit instruction, welfare and engagement. All staff develop and provide an appropriate, quality, differentiated curriculum. Lightning Ridge Central School is included in the Rural & Remote Strategy, is an 8 point school and as such attracts additional incentives, including a 90% rental subsidy.



Teaching Housing is available.

Specific Selection Criteria

- Approval to teach Technology Mandatory and Food Technology. Approval to teach or preparedness to undertake VET teacher training in Hospitality - Commercial Cookery and Hospitality - Food and Beverage providing the qualification entry benchmark is met.

- Demonstrated capacity to implement effective classroom management strategies and deliver differentiated teaching programs that support student growth and maintain high expectations for all learners.

- Well-developed interpersonal, communication and organisational skills with the capacity to contribute collaboratively within the Technology and Applied Sciences (TAS) faculty and across whole school programs.

- Knowledge of and commitment to the Department’s Aboriginal Education policies.

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 prospect.

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

Special Notes

Lightning Ridge Central School is an 8-point incentive school and as such attracts additional incentives.Please refer to: teach-nsw/find-teaching-jobs/choose-rural/benefits-and-incentives

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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