Recruiting the ‘quality teacher’: equity, faith, and passion

Figures & data

Table 1. Advertisement data summary for August 2019.

	Public	Catholic	Independent
Temporary	64	140	103
Permanent	290	73	139
Casual	0	37	22
Unclear	0	2	23
Total	354	252	287
Grand total			893

Note: Where both permanent and temporary, or part time and full-time roles were advertised together (n = 2 independent advertisements), these have been counted as permanent and full-time respectively.

Table 2. Keywords indicating candidate qualities.

Candidate Qualities
Theme	Sector	Keyword
Teacher person and practice	Public	Initiate, build, wider, future, numeracy, engagement, improved, literacy, relationships
	Catholic	Achievable, learned, affects, contemporary, lives, feedback, continual, skilled, themselves, motivate, enrich, how, sound
	Independent	Passion, standard, motivated, you, candidate, candidates, enthusiastic, possess, excellent, love, dynamic
Meeting school and community needs	Public	Equitably, manage, directions, partnership, visible, teams, whole, implementation, individuals, executive, capacity, wellbeing, developed, lead, programmes, leadership
	Catholic	Inside, creatively, constructively, shares, matters, priest, parish, serve, faith, religious, share, beyond
	Independent	Christian, embrace, expected, participate, would, syllabus, HSC, ethos, advantage