Geography Teacher 2025 (Australia)
Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
- A$84,071 - A$126,114 per year
- Job type:
- Full Time, Permanent
- Start date:
- 22 January 2025 or earlier by negotiation
- Apply by:
- 8 July 2024
Job overview
Seize the opportunity to work at Clarendon – a seriously special school
Consistently the top performing independent, co-educational school in Australia, Ballarat Clarendon College is recognised as a leader in drawing on the insights of cognitive science and educational psychology in the development of teaching and learning practices. Committed to evidenced-based decision making, Clarendon draws on research to design and map the curriculum, select effective instructional strategies and structure lessons.
It’s this commitment, we would argue, that produces our exemplary academic results, that contributes to the energy and enthusiasm of our staff, and that generates our positive, passionate and aspirational culture – our students flourish. And that’s what counts.
If you strive for excellence, are committed to learning and evolving as an educator, love working with ordinary kids who know how to work hard and have fun, and want to work in a cooperative and supportive community, then we’re eager to meet with you.
For 2025 (or earlier start by agreement), Ballarat Clarendon College is seeking Geography teachers. Teachers of other subject areas who are interested in working at Clarendon are also encouraged to apply. Salary offered will be commensurate with the successful applicant’s skills, qualifications and experience and will be based on Levels 1-13 of the Ballarat Clarendon College Enterprise Agreement teaching scale ($84,071-$126,114).
Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be conducted online via Zoom.
GENERAL INFORMATION
Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat Clarendon College is a co-educational school for day and boarding students with approximately 2,000 students from 3-year-old Early Learning to Year 12. A striking amalgam of heritage buildings with architecturally stunning purpose-built spaces, Clarendon is based in Ballarat, a regional city in the heart of Victoria, just 75 minutes’ drive from Melbourne. With a population of around 120,000 people and growing, Ballarat is a thriving fusion of art, culture, food and music set against the backdrop of an iconic historic past.
At Ballarat Clarendon College, we value diversity, embrace difference and nurture a connected, safe and respectful community. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people of all cultures, abilities, sexualities and genders.
Before commencing work at Ballarat Clarendon College, teaching staff must be registered with the Victorian Institute of Teaching – https://www.vit.vic.edu.au/registering-as-a-teacher. We will support successful applicants through this process.
Key Selection Criteria
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications (UK applicants must have a PGCE)
- Strong curriculum understanding, including the Child Safe Standards
- Ability to effectively plan and design lessons
- Commitment to and understanding of the use of a range of assessment tools and techniques
- Sophisticated knowledge of subject curriculum, study designs and criteria
- Proven ability to provide feedback to students
- Solid understanding of how to analyse data in relation to student progress and teaching effectiveness
- Commitment to continuous improvement in and out of the classroom
- Proven ability to manage time and conflicting priorities effectively
- Ability to communicate and interact with all Ballarat Clarendon College community members positively and appropriately
- Previous experience working within a team environment with a focus on success and outcomes
- Proficient user of information technology.
Special requirements
Applicants must have, or be able to obtain, valid Australian Work Rights. Ballarat Clarendon College is able to provide visa support for successful applicants.
Applications close 8 July 2024.
For further information, please see the attached documents for the general classroom teacher position description.
Attached documents
About Ballarat Clarendon College
Ballarat Clarendon College – different by design
Ballarat Clarendon College is different by design. Clarendon’s knowledge-rich and sequenced curriculum, its commitment to explicit teaching, approach to the structure of lessons, classroom management and data analysis makes it different from other schools – deliberately so.
At Clarendon, we believe that learning should not be a lottery. Students should never feel ‘lucky’ to have one teacher but ‘unlucky’ to be taught by another. If a teacher is supporting and progressing their students through a nuanced approach to a topic, a particular sequence of tasks, a more effective explanation or a striking analogy that illuminates a complex concept, then all teachers should know about and use those same methods. Everyone wants to get better.
We believe that all students deserve the best curriculum we can offer – one that draws from the research evidence that points to the effectiveness of a knowledge-rich curriculum, explicitly taught.
And this is what drives Clarendon’s approach to common planning, to developing a high-quality curriculum that contributes to better learning opportunities for students and for staff.
The approach that we take is not the same as other schools that pursue different pathways towards excellence, but it is what we do.
Clarendon’s commitment to professional learning – using research-based best practice to get better – ensures that our teachers, working closely with and learn from their colleagues, strive, thrive and achieve.
We are about learning. That might sound obvious for a school. Yet, to us, everything is an opportunity for learning – every interaction, every game, every performance, every calculation or paragraph. We are as much about teacher learning as we are about student learning.
And who would not be up for that? Who would not want to get better all the time?
Clarendon is not like other schools. Deliberately so. We are daring and we are intentionally and purposefully different.
If Clarendon sounds like the type of school that you’d like to be a part of, we’re keen to meet with you.
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