Careers at CSPD

Year 2 Primary Classroom Teacher - Term 3 -Temp

This is an exciting opportunity for a passionate and dedicated classroom teacher to join the Santa Sophia Catholic College community for Term 3 of 2025. Santa Sophia is a professional and exciting community to be a part of. Our staff and students love learning together in an innovative environment. At Santa Sophia we aim to educate the whole child and help students to be people of true wisdom through faith, hope and love. Using leading educational research, we are developing learners who can think critically and creatively, know how to communicate effectively and work collaboratively. Our Executive team, Instructional leaders and Diversity teachers work side-by-side with classroom teachers to ensure each child and teacher is being supported and challenged to achieve their best.

At Santa Sophia, our K-4 classroom teachers are:

• passionate about explicit teaching and inquiry based learning

• enthusiastic about children’s learning and family partnerships 

• collaborative team members 

• life long learners who enjoy ongoing professional development

• effective at implementing all elements of the teaching and learning cycle

• able to interpret and use student assessment data effectively

Are you a new graduate or an experienced teacher looking for a new experience? If this sounds like you, we would love to hear from you. 

Why not have a look at our website and social media pages to get a feel for our community.

This position will be a temporary full-time position for Term 3 of 2025.

Selection Criteria:

• 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 inquiry processes relevant to programs they develop and teach. 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.

• They 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.

Candidates are required to address the above selection criteria (no more than two pages) and include in their resumes the details of two professional referees.