Teacher Learning and Support - Bowral High School
Bowral is the largest town in the Southern Highlands, about 90 minutes southwest of Sydney. Bowral High School acknowledges its location on Gundungurra Land and was established at this site in 1929. It is a comprehensive high school with a virtual selective stream (Aurora) and a support unit of seven classes, increasing to eight classes in 2026. The student enrolment of approximately 600 includes 75 Aboriginal students and an increasing number of culturally and linguistically diverse students. The school has a Family Occupation and Educational Index of 109 and serves families from Bowral, Mittagong and the northern villages of the Southern Highlands.
We are a High Potential Gifted Education partner school and are committed to inspire, motivate and challenge all students by delivering quality instruction that enables all students to develop their high potential and talent in one or more of the following domains: intellectual, physical, creative and social-emotional.
Through effective partnerships, Bowral High School has collaborated with primary school partners to strengthen high school transition and with the broader community to build successful pathways beyond school, including work experience, vocational education and training, school-based traineeships and apprenticeships, university access and TAFE.
All students are known, valued, and cared for and student wellbeing is underpinned by Positive Behaviour for Learning (PBL) and Restorative Practice.
Approval to teach students with learning and support needs secondary and/or experience teaching students with learning and support needs secondary in regular classes. Capacity to provide specialist assistance to students in regular classes with additional learning and support needed and their teachers.
Knowledge and capacity to use student data, curriculum knowledge and the Disability Standards for Education to develop, implement and monitor quality student plans and support classroom teachers to provide differentiated and inclusive learning programs.
Highly developed communication, organisational and interpersonal skills, with demonstrated ability to work collaboratively as part of the Learning and Support Team to build positive relationships with students, staff, families and the wider community.
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.
Applicants 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 people of all backgrounds, including but not limited to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people, people of any age or gender, people from culturally and linguistically diverse groups and/or from the LGBTQIA community, veterans, refugees, people with disability, people with sensory differences, and neurodiverse people. If we can make some adjustments to our recruitment/interview process to better help you shine, please reach out to the contact person for this recruitment, details listed above. For more information, visit the NSW Department of Education's Diversity, equity and inclusion webpage.
Merit selection application guidelines for classroom teachers, executives and principals provide clear advice for applicants and selection panels. The guidelines are available here.
To meet the page limits outlined in the guidelines, all application attachments must be submitted in PDF format. Please note that late applications will not be accepted.
