Typical Career Progression for High Schools with 500+ students
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Position
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Remuneration
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Experience
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Education
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Start Position
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Graduate
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$52k to $54k
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0 to 2 years
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Degree
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1st Promotion
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Accomplished Classroom
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$57k to $64k
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2 to 4 years
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Degree
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2nd Promotion
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Expert Classroom
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$66k to $78k
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4 to 7 years
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Degree
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3rd Promotion
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Leading Teacher
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$80k to $84k
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7 to 13 years
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Post Graduate Degree
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4th Promotion
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Assistant Principal
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$93k to $129k
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Up to 15 years
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Post Graduate Degree
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5th promotion
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Principal
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$93k to $152k
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Up to 17 years
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Post Graduate Degree
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** To be used as a guide only
Typical Accountabilities and Responsibilities
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Graduate
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To further develop skills and competencies need to become an effective classroom practitioner with support and guidance from more senior teachers at higher levels. Will teach your own classes and may assist and or participate in policy development, project teams, and the organisation of co-curricula activities.
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Accomplished Classroom
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Main focus is on planning, preparation and teaching of programs to achieve specific student outcomes. Also participate in the development of school policies and programs. Assist the implementation of school priorities.
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Expert Classroom
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You play a significant role in assisting the school to improve student performance. You contribute to the development and implementation of school policies and priorities. A strong focus on increasing the knowledge base of staff within the school about student learning along with high quality instruction to assist the school in defining quality teacher practice.
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Leading Teacher
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Responsible for coordinating a large number of staff achieving improvements in teaching and learning. Must have a strong focus on introducing changes in the methods and approaches to teaching and learning. Also responsible for management and leadership of an area within the school ensuring effective development, provision and evaluation of the school’s education program.
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Deputy Principal
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You have primary responsibility for the management of significant areas within the school. Have authority to make significant decisions relating to programs, budget, and staff relating to their designated responsibility with the framework of the school’s strategic plan and policies, and budgets. You will contribute to the overall management of the school.
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Principal
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You have a large responsibility to deliver high quality and comprehensive school education to all students along with the ability to manage people, financial and physical resources within a strong accountability framework. Ensure all students have access to high quality comprehensive teaching appropriate to the student needs. Responsible for the implementation of the Departments policies appropriate to the school.
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Career Options & Employment
You can progress through levels of seniority and associated responsibility in the public or private sectors to be a Department Head and onto Deputy Principal and Principal. Your specialisation remains and there is little transference between primary and secondary schools.
Teaching jobs are available in most towns and cities across Australia. If you are willing to teach in the country areas you greatly improve your chances of getting a job. Staff turnover tends to be higher in inner city schools. The demand for teachers in some areas is high and outstrips supply. International opportunities are readily available.
With further study you may become a lecturer in further education or a school inspector. You can make extra money from private tuition or writing educational materials. Your teaching skills can be used to change careers: moving into many different fields such as social work, policing and management.
If you are interested in teaching music, you may choose to become an instrumental teacher or a private music teacher. As an instrumental teacher, you visit schools and tutor individual students in their chosen instrument, and prepare them for exams. A private music teacher, however, works from home or in the home of their students, and usually specialises in the teaching of one particular instrument.
In the art field, you may wish to become a private art teacher, whereby you generally instruct students in one specialised aspect of art. You teach from your own home or studio.
Drama teaching may take you into theatre, where you can run workshops or direct productions.
Specialising in special needs teaching may carry your career towards an Aboriginal education teacher, where you teach specifically designed programs to Indigenous students. Another option is an adult literacy and numeracy teacher. This involves teaching reading, writing and mathematics to adults with literacy or numeracy problems.
About the Author
Careernav
Careernav have written this career profile in consultion with senior industry representatives and industry associations who for reasons of conflict of interest cannot be named. Careernav have also reviewed information available from the public domain and drawn upon their combined 27 years experience in executive recruitment. This profile is a true representation of the career.
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