Tas Teacher

**Job no**: 504212

**Work type**: ongoing full-time

**Location**: Gilroy Catholic College - Castle Hill

**Categories**: Teaching

Gilroy Catholic College, Castle Hill is looking for a skilled, contemporary and passionate Secondary TAS Teacher to be part of our school community and enrich the lives of our students. This is a full time permanent teaching role

Gilroy Catholic College is a faith-filled learning community where every student is nurtured to achieve in all aspects of their lives.

Our mission statement, “We all strive to learn, achieve and progress as we walk in the light of Christ”, is central to all we do therefore we provide our students with opportunities to grow in their relationship with Jesus Christ. As a faith community we encourage our students to be active and responsible community members guided by the ethos of Saint Mary of the Cross, ‘never see a need without doing something about it.’

At Gilroy Catholic College, we understand that every student is unique with their own individual learning needs so we provide personalised learning experiences and differentiated learning within our classrooms. Teaching and learning across all faculties encourages critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, problem solving, and independent learning. We provide experiential and enquiry-based learning opportunities enabling our students to develop the skills, knowledge and understanding to succeed in a changing world.

**Key focus areas**

The Secondary TAS Teacher will fit the following criteria:

- Ability to teach Stage 6 Food Technology
- Ability to teach Design and Technology
- Extensive, contemporary and authoritative professional knowledge and understanding of the teaching of technology and the factors that influence learning and the development of skills.
- Use effective pedagogies, a range of differentiated assessment approaches and a wide variety of stimulating and interactive resources to enhance student learning outcomes.
- Build effective relationships and manage complex interactions and balancing the development of skills and knowledge.
- Create engaging, intellectually challenging and safe learning environments through planning, implementing and evaluating rigorous and inclusive learning programs.
- Make a positive difference to the learning outcomes of the students taught.
- Sensitive and responsive to all aspects of the context in which they teach including use of technology and other resources, teaching practices and ways in which assessment and feedback is provided to students.
- Excellent teachers of Technology are committed to the continual improvement of their teaching practice and take opportunities for personal professional development.
- They work creatively and constructively within a range of 'communities' inside and beyond the school and set high, achievable goals for themselves and their students.
- Exhibit personal approaches characterised by caring and respect for others.

**The Organisation**

Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta provides quality learning and teaching in a faith-centred environment across 83 primary and secondary schools and within early learning and out of school hours care centres in Western Sydney.

**Advertised**: 07 Mar 2023 11:03 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 21 Mar 2023 09:03 AUS Eastern Daylight Time