Teacher - Mathematics - Molong Central School

Position Information

Molong Central School has an enrolment of 399 students from K-12, with 24.3% identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander. Students come from a diverse range of socio-economic backgrounds, making equity a priority for the school community.

The school offers a broad curriculum, and its unique K-12 environment allows staff and students to share opportunities across both the Primary and Secondary sections. The school's results reflect consistency across all Key Learning Areas (KLAs), with a strong emphasis on personal achievement. Molong Central School is well-renowned for offering a diverse academic pattern of study in the senior years.

Extra-curricular opportunities in sport, debating, and the arts are embraced as valuable experiences for students in a small rural community. The proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students is increasing, and the school is committed to improving the delivery of education for these students while ensuring all students have meaningful exposure to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander perspectives across all KLAs.

The school currently employs 48 teachers and 30 administration and support staff, including additional temporary staff funded through school-based initiatives to better support student learning.

As a result of the school's situational analysis, a focus on explicit, differentiated teaching has been identified. This will involve:

• Increasing the capability of staff to analyse student performance data through formative and summative assessment practices, improving teacher effectiveness, system-negotiated target intervention, and student outcomes.
• Supporting all students and their families to actively engage with their educational commitments.
• Developing high expectations across the school community to foster a culture where students and teachers are motivated to strive for continuous improvement.
• Implementing wellbeing approaches that enable students to engage meaningfully in their learning.
• Developing a Reconciliation Action Plan to enhance engagement and educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Selection Criteria

• Approval to teach Mathematics (7-10) and Mathematics (11-12).
• Demonstrated capacity to work as part of the maths faculty and wider school team to develop and maintain a quality teaching and learning program that focusses on catering to the needs of individual students.
• Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to establish positive working relationships with students, staff and parents to improve student numeracy outcomes for a diverse range of learners.
• Proven ability to implement effective classroom management strategies and to plan and implement differentiated teaching and learning programs to maximise student growth and promote high expectations for all 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 all ages and genders, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, culturally and linguistically diverse groups, the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, refugees and people with disability. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better enable you to shine, please contact the Diversity and Inclusion Team (dandi@det.nsw.edu.au) or visit NSW Department of Education Diversity and Inclusion

New merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals have been introduced to provide greater clarity to applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are located here. To ensure that your application complies with the guideline page limits, your attachments must be in PDF format.