Casual Teaching Opportunities in the School of Education

The school may offer from time-to-time casual teaching opportunities in the following discipline areas:

• Early childhood education
• Curriculum, assessment, and reporting
• Mathematics and numeracy
• Language and literacy
• Outdoor education
• Supportive and safe learning environments
• Education psychology
• Teaching students from diverse backgrounds
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander education
• Inclusion and diversity in education
• ICT in teaching and learning
• Professional experience support
• Disciplinary or specialist content: e.g. mathematics 7-12
• Education leadership
• Education policy
• Pedagogy
• Health education
• Physical education
• Gender and sexuality studies in education
• Sociology of education
• Educational research
• Digital literacy
• Philosophy of education
• Educational theory
• Social theory of education
• Humanities
• Other

Duties:

• Duties may include teaching, marking, provision of feedback and attendance at teaching team meetings.

Skills/Experience:

• To teach at an undergraduate level an Honours degree, Graduate Diploma or higher is required in a relevant discipline.
• To teach at postgraduate level a doctorate in a relevant discipline is normally required.

Benefits:

• Rate of Pay - Academic Casual rates as defined in the La Trobe University Enterprise Agreement 2023 (EA) (dependent upon individual teaching responsibilities, i.e. lectures, tutorials, marking, meetings, etc.)
• Hours - Casual (hours are dependent upon individual teaching activities available and assigned.)

All applications must follow the following guidelines.

1. Include a cover letter detailing;
   a. Your interest in working for the school, and the discipline area(s) you are qualified to teach in
   b. Highest qualification
   c. Your preferred teaching mode, Face to face only, online only, both face to face and online
   d. Closest communicable campus you can teach at (Albury Wodonga, Bendigo, Melbourne, Mildura, Shepparton)
   e. List any subject you have previously taught in at La Trobe
2. Your current CV
3. A copy of your most recent student feedback on subject results (if applicable, where you have taught at La Trobe or another university in the past).

The school will be in contact if there are any casual opportunities available.

Closing date for expression of interest: Ongoing

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Applicants

We welcome and strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

La Trobe University is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We take an intersectional approach by actively supporting and encouraging people of all backgrounds and abilities to submit an application and aim to ensure that the recruitment and employee experience is as accessible and inclusive as possible. Flexibility in interview format will be offered to shortlisted candidates.

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School of Education: https://www.linkedin.com/company/76215971

All La Trobe University employees are bound by the Working with Children Act 2005. If you are successful, you will be required to hold a valid Victorian Employee Working with Children Check prior to commencement.

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