Rural teaching
Your teaching career in country NSW
Teaching in the country offers exceptional opportunities for both experienced and beginning teachers in the NSW Department of Education and Training. It’s a rewarding lifestyle choice that offers many advantages both personally and professionally.
Your employment prospects can be enhanced if you choose to work in rural locations and you’ll often enjoy earlier exposure to opportunities for professional experiences and responsibilities, with a greater involvement in planning and management within the school.
Enjoying life in the country
Wherever you are appointed to teach in rural NSW, you’ll never be far from a major regional centre. With many people choosing to improve their lifestyles through a “tree-change”, many rural towns and cities have seen a resurgence in popularity.
As a result, rural centres now offer many of the features and facilities once found only in cities, eliminating the necessity to travel to major city centres to enjoy a cosmopolitan lifestyle. Detailed and accurate information is readily available from tourist information centres via the internet, listing facilities such as schools and tertiary institutions, accommodation, restaurants, childcare facilities, hospitals and medical centres, shopping and lifestyle centres, entertainment venues and sporting facilities.
Choosing where to teach
A range of incentives and benefits is offered to supplement the salary of teachers in many rural locations, with different incentives being offered in different schools. When making your selection of preferred teaching locations on your application, you may want to consider schools which offer increased employment opportunities, financial benefits and incentives, especially in the School Staffing Areas of Bourke, Broken Hill, Deniliquin, Dubbo, Griffith and Moree.
When completing your online application form, you will be asked where you are seeking employment. You can choose to maximise your opportunities by selecting “anywhere in the State”, or to make your selection by choosing whole staffing areas, individual schools or a combination of both. Our online benefits calculator enables you to check individual schools and calculate what additional benefits are offered to teachers employed there.
