Teacher Special Education - John Edmondson High School

John Edmondson High School, with an enrolment of approximately 1130 students, including 75% of students from a non-English speaking background and 33 Aboriginal students, is a dynamic Year 7 - 12 comprehensive co-educational high school. The school serves a community inSouth WestSydney in the Liverpool area that includes a wide range of families from diverse cultural and socio-economic groups living in suburban, as well as semi-rural environments. The school has an extensive curriculum and promotes academic, sporting and leadership development and achievement. Innovative features include extensive technological resources andnumerousopportunities for student enrichment. Strong links with partner Primary Schools as well as external providers are being extended to further develop student opportunities for learning and success. Applicants should refer to the school website foradditionalinformation:

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John Edmondson High School, with an enrolment of approximately 1130 students, including 75% of students from a non-English speaking background and 33 Aboriginal students, is a dynamic Year 7 - 12 comprehensive co-educational high school. The school serves a community inSouth WestSydney in the Liverpool area that includes a wide range of families from diverse cultural and socio-economic groups living in suburban, as well as semi-rural environments. The school has an extensive curriculum and promotes academic, sporting and leadership development and achievement. Innovative features include extensive technological resources andnumerousopportunities for student enrichment.



Strong links with partner Primary Schools as well as external providers are being extended to further develop student opportunities for learning and success. Applicants should refer to the school website foradditionalinformation:

Specific Selection Criteria

Approval to teach special education teaching students with Autism and willing to teach students with Mild Intellectual Disability.

Demonstrated capacity to create a safe, inclusive and supportive learning environment, with proven classroom managementexpertiseand wellbeing practices to suppport students with autism and/ou mild to moderate intellectual disabilities.

Demonstrated ability to differentiate curriculum and pedagogy to effectively support a wide range of student learning needs, while maintaining high expectations for all students.

Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills, with the capacity to establish and sustain effective partnerships with all stakeholders to improve educational and wellbeing outcomes for students.

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 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 availablehere.

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 qualified 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.

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📌 Teacher Special Education - John Edmondson High School (Sydney)
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