Ongoing Teacher - Special Class / Plus Another Subject
Employment
Full time, Permanent
Subject
General Teaching
Sector
Government
Teaching level
Secondary
Salary range
Closing date
13 August 2026
Posted 29 Jul 2026
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1,277
Total students
54%
Boys
46%
Girls
92.8
Teaching FTE
43.6
Non-teaching FTE
928
ICSEA value
17th percentile · Lower SES
52%
EAL/D Background
7%
Indigenous students
Source: ACARA My School data
Role description
This position requires a highly innovative, reflective and experienced Special Options teacher to work collaboratively within a supportive team environment in a large, complex secondary school.
The successful applicant will:
- Have experience teaching students with intellectual disabilities in a Special Options class or disability unit.
- Demonstrate the ability to design and deliver highly differentiated, functional learning programs that promote independence, communication and participation.
- Have experience planning and facilitating authentic community-based learning opportunities that support students to generalise skills across a range of settings.
- Experience delivering Modified SACE programs would be highly regarded.
Apply today by submitting your resume and answering the below questions in an application response:
1. Provide an example of when you have actively created working relationships that have resulted in you connecting with your colleagues, sharing practices, and learning from one another to support your learners to thrive.
2. Explain a time where you have empowered your learners, giving them agency to shape a learning experience. What was the outcome?
3. Describe a time where evaluation of your teaching has led to a change in your teaching practice?
The successful applicant will:
- Have experience teaching students with intellectual disabilities in a Special Options class or disability unit.
- Demonstrate the ability to design and deliver highly differentiated, functional learning programs that promote independence, communication and participation.
- Have experience planning and facilitating authentic community-based learning opportunities that support students to generalise skills across a range of settings.
- Experience delivering Modified SACE programs would be highly regarded.
Apply today by submitting your resume and answering the below questions in an application response:
1. Provide an example of when you have actively created working relationships that have resulted in you connecting with your colleagues, sharing practices, and learning from one another to support your learners to thrive.
2. Explain a time where you have empowered your learners, giving them agency to shape a learning experience. What was the outcome?
3. Describe a time where evaluation of your teaching has led to a change in your teaching practice?