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Central Queensland

Region

Teacher Employment Permanent and Temporary Positions

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Central Queensland Region The Central Queensland (CQ) Region has a range of opportunities for teachers from all sectors, and annually recruits more than two hundred permanent teachers to fill vacancies. There are also hundreds of temporary positions annually, some of which lead to permanent ap-pointments. The Region extends from Wide Bay North to just south of Proserpine. From the Coast in the East to as far West as the border. Working in CQ will allow you to:

• Experience rural and remote service • Access to subsidised Departmental accommodation • Incentives in Remote Areas in schools rated four or above • Gain a higher rate of transfer points more isolated centres.

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Queensland Schools

There are 190 schools in

CENTRAL QUEENSLAND

There are 1234 schools

throughout Queensland

CENTRAL QUEENSLAND REGION = 158 Primary schools + 25

Secondary schools + 4 Special schools + 3 Schools of Distance.

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If you would like to be considered for employment in Central Queensland, in either a tempo-rary or permanent capacity, please email your resume with a short note outlining your ex-pression of interest (EOI). In this email you should tell us the following:

• When you will be available for work • Where you would like to teach (geographic area) • Capacity in which you would like to work (temporary or permanent) • Sector (Primary/Secondary/Students with Disabilities) and teaching subject areas • Are you interested in in Jnr Secondary positions working in a high school setting • Other subject areas of personal interest or capabilities that you are willing to teach • Would you require only centres that have subsidised Departmental accommodation • Other information that you believe could be relevant in finding you a suitable position Pre-Service teachers must to provide the additional documentation including:

• Unofficial academic transcript • Professional Experience Report Overview • Professional Experience Internship Overview • Professional Experience – Referee Statements It is not mandatory to provide a cover letter, or address the key selection criteria for positions.

Submit a written applications to email address to — CQHUMANRES@dete.qld.gov.au

Wri/en Job Applica2ons

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“HR Team CQ Region Ed Qld”

Available in Apple and Android The region will be able to stay in touch with you and in particular tell you about such things as:

• Current vacancies for Teachers within our schools • Upcoming vacancies for Teachers (2016) within our schools • Exciting school news – Eg: testimonials on what it is like to teach in CQ • Ensure that we have your latest contact details (eForm) • Register your Expression of Interest to work in Central Qld (eForm)

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Scholarships and Grants The Department offers a number of scholarships or grants to high achieving aspiring and preservice teachers who are about to commence or are currently completing an ap-proved undergraduate or postgraduate preservice teacher education program. Opportunities are also offered for existing teachers who wish to further their teaching skills and experience.

For more information about Scholarships and Grants, please visit — www.teach.qld.gov.au.

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Is your career aspiration to be the best teacher that you can possibly be? Do you want to teach for the benefits of student outcomes and not for your career? If you answered no, consider a different career, for you are going into the job for the wrong reasons… However, if you answered yes to these questions, you have my interest and I hope I have yours. My main aim is to support and guide you along your career to becoming the best teacher you can be. Central Queensland, as a region, has the will and determination to make you realise your potential. What are the givens about teaching in CQ? As a State School Principal working in Cen-tral Queensland, I will tell you now that my colleagues and I will not and do not accept mediocrity in the classroom. Neither will you. The quality of instruction you provide is the single biggest contributor to students being successful at school. That is not your respon-sibility alone, however, it is a weighty burden. Too often teachers go into schools and feel unsupported in meeting the challenges that a teaching career can offer. I am here to tell you that CQ and Winton State School is com-mitted to its mentoring program and has a proven record for building teaching capacity quickly. As a Positive Behaviour for Learning school, we apply this philosophy to every-thing we do, including supporting our new staff. The organisational culture of our region/school is the most supportive I have ever been involved in, and as a Principal, has changed what I expect at a school level. We build collaborative partnerships, open classrooms, learning conversations, team own-ership of student data, personal accountability and celebrations of personal successes. We do all of this in an intentionally inviting envi-ronment. Still want to be the best teacher you can possibly be? Jason White Principal Winton State School Central Queensland

Tes2monial—Rural/Remote

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Tes2monial—Moura & Winton

Moura State High School is a school committed to providing access to a quality education for young people in the Dawson Valley. It provides a dynamic approach to education with the focus on maximising opportunities for our students to explore 'what's possible' and then providing them with the skills to reach their goals. Strength of curriculum at the school is vindicated with Moura SHS – in capacity as a Lighthouse school of excellence in Explicit Instruction, hosting staff from other schools.

You Tube—Teaching at Moura SHS — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfildb596pw

Tes2monial—Moura State High

My experience of moving west for my country service has been exciting, eye-opening, scary, exhausting, amazing and most of all life changing. If I put things into context, I was very much a city girl very enclosed in my own lifestyle. Although I always had a keen sense of adventure, half way through my first year teaching I got a call from central west staffing about moving out west. Not thinking twice I immediately said yes, why not. Later in the year I received another call and the gentleman at the end of the phone started off with saying ‘how far west are you will-ing to go…. long pause?’ and I replied with ‘I didn’t mind.’ Then I found out I was going to be placed in Winton, I was told to google it before accepting. I have now been out here for a year and a half and have no intentions of leaving in a hurry. Rural placement is an experience that will challenge every element of your teacher identity, from your behaviour management, peda-gogy, differentiation and classroom routines. Having to teach in a multi aged classroom forces you to know every element of your curriculum inside and out and back to front, a skill that is so transferable. Rural service is hard, leaving your family, friends and everything that is familiar to you and being thrown head first into a completely different experience is daunting. If you em-brace the life style, the people and the culture you will never look back. So if you are like me and love an adventure rural service is for you.

Amanda Burns Prep 1 -2 Teacher Winton State School Central Queensland

Tes2monial—Rural & Remote

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After more than 15 years in a fairly large urban school and a year in Central Office, the oppor-tunity to move into Central Queensland was a welcome and exciting challenge. I moved into a P-10 school, my first Principal position, and the only school I had applied for. Within my first few days of arriving at my first school in CQ I had received several emails and phone calls welcom-ing me to CQR.

Prior to moving to the P-10 school, I had almost exclusively worked in primary schools in Tas-mania, New South Wales and Queensland, so there were many aspects of secondary schooling that were entirely new to me. I was quickly included in the collegial group of secondary school leaders who explained SET plans, Year 13 data and work experience programs; they shared strategies for timetabling and managing resource schemes and selflessly arranged for access to ICT support and GO services for career planning.

When we first moved here we did so with the idea that we could survive 3 years; we are now half way through our seventh year – we have built a house, and love the life style we have found here. If CQR is rural/remote, it is very comfortable. We live 1 hour from Gladstone, 2 hours from Rockhampton and 1&1/2 hours from Bundaberg. We are 40 minutes from the beach and 30 minutes from the mountains. We have ready access to supermarkets, service centres, shopping centres, restaurants, and coffee shops – even multiple McDonald’s venues. Medical and dental practices are dotted across the region and while specialist medical care is depend-ent on consulting rotations, good quality care is available. Even in Brisbane, waiting lists for specialist consultations and other clinical treatment are fairly common realities.

Three years after moving to CQR, I was encouraged to take on a new challenge – a principal position for a large primary school. Again, I was welcomed into a collegial and supportive pro-fessional network. As a network, the group of principals accepts responsibility for the local area sports, instrumental music, accommodation and EATSIPS programs and initiatives. This is done voluntarily, acknowledging a shared responsibility for all students in the area. The concept of network extends to specialist teachers as well as teacher cohorts who meet regularly throughout the year – the spirit of sharing is very real, and practical.

CQR is a microcosm for Queensland as a whole, from large urban locations to Schools of Dis-tance Education, as well as Special Schools and schools with Special Education Programs. The breadth of experience and opportunity with CQR is vast, and the support, professional engage-ment and encouragement is ever present and very real.

Margie Burrell Principal Gladstone West State School Central Queensland

Tes2monial—Gladstone

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List of Remote Schools in CQ

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List of Rural Schools in CQ

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Teacher Employment Process

www.teach.qld.gov.au

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Central Queensland—Contacts

Rockhampton HR Office — 07 49324007

Mackay HR Office — 07 4842 8300

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Make a Difference. Teach

www.teach.qld.gov.au

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Blackwater, Emerald and Moranbah

List of Schools in CQ Region

Mackay

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List of Schools in CQ Region

Rockhampton

Gladstone, Biloela and Moura

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List of Schools in CQ Region Longreach