Position Information

Googong High School will open to year 7 and 8 students in 2027. Situated in the Queanbeyan Network on Ngambri and Ngunnawal Country, the school serves a rapidly growing, highly engaged and aspirational community, with the potential for the school to expand to cater for approximately 2000 students.

The Special Education Teacher position will be a founding member of our Student Matters faculty, which focuses on providing holistic learning, wellbeing and logistic support to students and their families. This position will have a critical role in helping establish our first multi-categorical support class at the school. They will not only be involved in the agile teaching of students with specific needs, but have a key voice in the development and design of a new and growing support unit at the school.

Googong High School is being designed around an exciting and innovative curriculum structure that is founded in Learning Sciences. As a new school with the opportunity to establish a dynamic and contemporary culture, the school is building a learning design that reflects a broad research base in effective and modern teaching practices. This includes a whole school skills framework (RECONI). These skills will translate across all our mainstream and special education settings.

In the absence of a school plan,



interested applicants are encouraged to visit the school’s website at and look carefully at the information regarding the school’s innovative approach to curriculum.

Selection Criteria

1. Approval to teach Special Education and/or experience teaching students withAutism and/or Mild Intellectual Disability.
2. Ability to plan, implement and reflect on quality teaching programs that support students with complex needs.
3. Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to form strong relationships with staff, students and families.

Conditions

An unconditional full approval to teach is a requirement.

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.

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📌 Teacher Special Education - Googong High School (Prov)
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