Teacher Learning And Support (0.8 Fte) - Old

**Position Information**:
Old Guildford Public School (OGPS) is located in South Western Sydney and proudly built on Darug Land, home to the Cabrogal Clan. The current student enrolment K-6 is 429 and we have two Preschool groups of 20 students over a five-day fortnight. Our embedded culture of high expectations and inclusivity ensure that students, staff and the community work together respectfully. As a multicultural school, 96% of our students come from non-English speaking backgrounds. We have students from 28 language backgrounds with the main being Arabic. In addition, we are proud of the small but significant number of Aboriginal students enrolled at our school.

Our learning environment reflects strong student wellbeing principles. To aid in the development of the whole child, compassionate and skilled staff offer a wide range of extracurricular activities. These include, but are not limited to, the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program, coding, chess, debating, recorder, choir, and a wide range of sports.

Through our situational analysis we have identified five areas that will assist our school to work towards achieving our system negotiated targets: Data to inform practice, explicit teaching in literacy and numeracy, effective feedback, collaboration and improving attendance.

**Selection Criteria**:

- Approval to teach students with learning and support needs (primary) and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs (primary) in regular classes. Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needs and their teachers.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with the classroom teacher to support assessment for learning of their students with additional educational needs and identify specific learning needs and targeted intervention.
- Well established understanding of school wellbeing programs, with a strong emphasis on trauma-informed practices and use of evidence-based strategies to support student engagement, participation and wellbeing.
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage proactively and professionally with students, parents and staff with the capacity to contribute enthusiastically to a positive inclusive school culture.

**Conditions**:
**Special Notes**:
This is a permanent part-time position for 4 days per week 0.8 FTE (Full-time equivalent)

**Learning and support **Teacher**:
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