Teacher English - Granville Boys High School

Granville Boys High School has an enrolment of 931students and is a partially selective secondary school for boys. Our culturally diverse school nurtures inclusivity, personal responsibility, and friendship with 98% of students coming from a language background other than English.

The school motto is ‘Aiming for Excellence’ and has a focus on high academic achievement and quality teaching in a rich learning environment. The school has increasingly outstanding HSC and NAPLAN results due to a strong commitment to building collective teacher efficiency and using evidence-based practices to target areas including literacy, numeracy and High Potential Gifted Education (HPGE).

An extensive co-curricular program caters for diverse student interests including sport, debating, Duke of Edinburgh, music, chess club and student leadership. In addition, the school runs an award-winning robotics program, offers a Saturday tutoring program, and has its own work skills programs which includes a Barber Shop and the Pulse Café.

1.      Approval to teach English Years 7–12

2.    Demonstrated capacity using explicit teaching strategies in boys education with an emphasis on maintaining high academic expectations and improving student outcomes.

3.    Demonstrated ability to implement effective teaching, assessment and classroom management practices that create supportive and inclusive learning environments.

4.     Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to work collaboratively with colleagues and build positive relationships with students, parents and the wider school community.

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.