Round 3 - Junior High School Teacher - Generalist - Grades 7 - 9 - Temporary/Replacement, Part-time Vacancy

Simplication; Okotoks; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Foothills School Division invites applications from dynamic educators for the 2026/2027 school year. You will collaborate within a Professional Learning Community to design meaningful activities that transfer learning and develop thinking competencies, while assessing student progress to inform instruction.

You will build strong relationships with students, families and staff, support extracurriculars, and integrate technology and maker-centered learning across CTS/CTF contexts to connect

Qualifications

• Collaborate within a Professional Learning Community to support student learning.
• Design and plan learning activities that transfer and develop thinking competencies.
• Assess individual student variables to inform instructional design.

Responsibilities

• Foster professional relationships with students, families, staff and community.
• Engage in extracurricular activities to support the whole-school experience.
• Integrate technologies and experiential learning aligned with Maker-centered / CTS learning environments.

Skills

Collaboration

Curriculum design

Assessment

Technology integration

Maker-centered learning

Education

Bachelor of Education

Job description

Our Division & Communities

Foothills School Division (FSD) serves the learning needs of approximately 8000 students from preschool to grade 12. We operate 22 public schools, an online digital school, an alternative campus, and three colony schools. These are located in the towns of Okotoks, High River, and Diamond Valley, and the communities of Blackie, Cayley, Heritage Heights, Red Deer Lake, Longview, Millarville and Foothills County.

We honour the spirit, life, and lessons this land and its ancestors teach us. We acknowledge the traditional land and territories of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuutina, and Îyârhe Nakoda as well as the Foothills District and the Rocky View District within the Battle River Territory of the Otipemisiwak Métis Government of Alberta.

Applicant Eligibility

Forming Round 3 of the certificated staffing cycle for the 2026/2027 school year, the Foothills School Division welcomes all interested candidates to apply.

The Candidate

As a member of a highly motivated team and student-centered educator, you are prepared to collaborate with colleagues in a Professional Learning Community.Your teaching practice includes the ability to design and plan learning activities that transfer, and develop thinking competencies. Further, your practice assesses individual student variables to inform the design of meaningful and experiential learning opportunities and effective assessment practice.

Your ability to foster effective professional relationships with student, families, staff and community is critical. You demonstrate a willingness to engage in extra-curricular activities and support students in the whole school experience that characterizes effective schools.Your capacity to integrate technologies and and support experiential learning that connects students to community resources within Maker-centered learning, CTF and CTS learning environments is evident.

If you are a dynamic, research-based educator passionately committed to explore, develop and celebrate each learner entrusted to your care, we invite you to apply.

We appreciate and consider all applications, but only those applicants

selected for further consideration will be contacted.