Head Teacher English

**Position Information**:
Albion Park High School is located on Dharawal Country at the foot of the Illawarra escarpment. The school is a complex, P4, comprehensive high school with a rapidly growing enrolment of approximately 1008 students, including 80 Aboriginal students and 12 support classes. We have a strong focus on creating a safe, happy and caring environment where every student is known, valued, and cared for. The school's current ICSEA is 972 and the school's FOEI is 111. The 100 teachers and 34 administrative staff at Albion Park High School are committed to providing innovative and successful programs focussing on authentic, evidence informed initiatives and teaching pedagogies.

Our school has an active and supportive P&C and enjoys close connections with the local community. We seek feedback from all members of the school community to underpin ongoing school improvement. Our Strategic Improvement Plan focus areas include student growth and attainment, wellbeing, staff growth and school and community partnerships. All staff play an active role in diverse Strategic Improvement Teams to promote school improvement. We have a strong learning and wellbeing culture, driven by Positive Behaviour for Learning frameworks, a signature pedagogy of Visible Thinking and a focus on high-quality learning experiences.

We continue our emphasis on the development of students who are active, critical, and creative thinkers, incorporating a project-based learning approach and a visible thinking pedagogy. The school is committed to continually improving effective classroom practices with staff professional learning being the key to this growth. This learning will ensure that both literacy and numeracy levels can be enhanced through improved data collection, analysis and use which underpins our belief in individualised and differentiated learning.

**Selection Criteria**:
Applicants must satisfy the teacher training and academic qualification requirements for this position. In addition to the general selection criteria,

1. Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire the faculty to develop skills and practices in explicit teaching while maintaining relationships, accountability, curriculum and assessment requirements.

2. Demonstrated ability to work as a collaborative member of the school's Executive team to foster a cohesive and effective learning culture, supporting faculties across the school to revitalise reading and enhance literacy growth.

3. Demonstrated capacity to improve the outcomes, opportunities and engagement for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students while maintaining a connection to culture through rich and authentic learning experiences.

4. Demonstrated capacity to collaboratively design, deliver, monitor and evaluate differentiated, high-impact teaching and learning strategies to support and challenge diverse and complex learners, including HPGE students and students with additional learning needs.

**General Selection Criteria**:
1. Successful teaching experience with capacity to initiate improvement in teaching, learning and classroom practice

2. Knowledge of curriculum, assessment and student welfare with the ability to lead and design quality, inclusive teaching and learning programs

3. Educational leadership skills to build the capacity and manage the performance of individuals and teams

4. Well developed communication and interpersonal skills with the capacity to build relationships and engage students, staff and parents

5. Ability to plan and manage resources effectively and equitably to support teaching and learning

6. Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal education policies

**Conditions**:
**Special Notes**:
The Eligibility Requirements for Head Teacher Positions in NSW Government Schools are located here.

**About the NSW Department of Education