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About the Department of Education
The Department of Education is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.
About Berserker Street State School
Berserker Street is a school with a growing reputation for excellence and innovation. Beautiful turn-of-the-century buildings have been upgraded to provide some of the most modern learning spaces in Rockhampton.
The school is part of an international network of schools focussed on excellence in outcomes for all. We offer a range of unique programs including AUSLAN sign language classes in every grade, and our whole school Thinking Program developed in conjunction with international experts.
About the Role
This position offers an exciting opportunity to support teachers to plan for, enact and monitor the implementation of an effective whole school approach to pedagogy at Berserker Street State School in Rockhampton.
The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of the science of learning and evidence based pedagogical practices and strategies suitable for teaching prep to year six students. They should be able to work with individual teachers within classrooms, as well as deliver cohort and staff professional learning sessions aligned to Do E CARF requirements and the Australian Curriculum, with a strong emphasis on the pedagogy which could be applied to engage learners.

The successful candidate should have:

• A strong knowledge of how to differentiate to support diverse learners and be a skilled and experienced teacher with recent classroom experience.
• Knowledge of 'Teach Like A Champion' strategies and a bank of transferable high yield literacy and numeracy instructional routines would be beneficial to the role.
• Do E has recently released resources to support the requirements for pedagogy outlined in the P-12 CARF and knowledge and experience with utilising these principles to drive systematic curriculum delivery in schools would be beneficial.
• Experience working in settings with students from diverse socio-economic backgrounds would also be advantageous.

Berserker Street State School has an experienced HOD C and you would be joining with this HOD C, the leadership team and the teaching team within the school to enact engaging curriculum experiences for learners. The successful application will also be working alongside a small number of other schools in the Rockhampton area to support moderation processes and engaging learning and teaching episodes once established in the role.
Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply:

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive.
Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department.
Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted.
When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.
Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE).
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