Teacher Special Education
18 hours ago
Glendenning Public School is proudly located on Dharug land, in the western suburbs of Sydney. The school serves approximately 440 students from Kindergarten to Year 6. In 2026, we will have two newly established multi-categorical support classes.
Our community is culturally diverse, with 86% of students born in Australia and 61% identified as English as an Additional Language or Dialect (EAL/D). The school community represents 30 different languages, with Punjabi, Gujarati, and Hindi among the most prevalent. We proudly support 28 students who identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander.
Our committed teaching team foster a culture of collaboration, ensuring a shared vision that supports all students, teachers and leaders to grow. We prioritise high expectations, explicit quality teaching practices and the tracking of student growth.
Student data is used to guide our decision-making. As a restorative practices school, students are at the core of everything we do, ensuring every child is known, valued and cared for which is evident through our proactive and supportive approaches to wellbeing.
Selection CriteriaApproval to teach special education and/or experience teaching students with diverse needs including autism and intellectual disability, with proven ability to implement strategies to meet their communication, sensory, social and behavioural needs.
Proven ability to develop and deliver programs focused on literacy and numeracy, ensuring maximum student growth through high expectations and personalised learning support for diverse needs.
Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work collaboratively, proactively and professionally with staff, parents and other stakeholders.
Knowledge of and commitment to the Department's Aboriginal Education policy and capacity to meet the learning needs of complex students from diverse cultures and backgrounds.
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 NotesApplicants 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 ) 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.
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