The Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta is looking for a skilled, contemporary and passionate Primary K-6 Teacher to be part of our school community and enrich the lives of our students.

Teachers within the Diocese are responsible to the Principal and share in the learning and teaching of subject matters to students of the school community. Teachers are responsible for delivering high quality contemporary learning and teaching for the community they serve which is embedded in the Catholic world view. It is a collaborative ministry of witness and service and part of the evangelising mission of the Church.

NB Applicant must be able to work Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays

Key focus areas

The Primary K-6 Teacher will fit the following criteria:

• Ability to work with targeted groups of students, whole class teaching K-6, team planning

-Knowledge on how to structure lessons to meet the physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students. Strong teachers have extensive knowledge of the content and sequence of Key Learning Areas - including Religious Education.

• Understand the fundamental concepts, structure and enquiry processes relevant to programs they develop and teach. They understand what constitutes effective, developmentally appropriate strategies in their learning and teaching programs and use this knowledge to make the content meaningful to students.

• Able to create and maintain safe, inclusive and challenging learning environments and implement fair and equitable behaviour management plans. Strong teachers will evaluate all aspects of their teaching practice to ensure they are meeting the learning needs of their students. interpret and use student assessment data to diagnose barriers to learning and to challenge students to improve their performance.

• Operate effectively at all stages of the teaching and learning cycle, including planning for learning and assessment, developing learning programs, teaching, assessing, providing feedback on student learning and reporting to parents/carers.

• Value opportunities to engage with their school communities within and beyond the classroom to enrich the educational context for students and work to promote the links between school, home and community in the social and intellectual development of their students.

Examples of duties and responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Holding guided reading/writing groups

• In situ supplementary teacher during numeracy sessions including data gathering (monitoring and selecting) and tracking of students.

• Collaborative planning of learning sequences and data analysis with Literacy and Numeracy team

• Collaboratively updating data walls

• Releasing teachers on the grade for individual student/parent/specialist meetings

• Releasing teachers K-6 for case management and personal plan completion and updating

• Cooperative teaching across other Key Learning Areas.
  

• Reading Recovery and Math’s Intervention (EMU) experience, desirable but not essential.

For more information on the school please follow this link to the school's website. http://www.stpatsparra.catholic.edu.au/

There is parking on site for all staff employed at the school.