Specialized Position - Teacher - Mental Health Classroom - Grades 6 - 10 - Temporary Vacancy

Foothills School Division; High River; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Foothills School Division seeks a motivated educator to support students with mental health needs at Senator Riley school for the 2025-2026 school year. The role emphasizes collaboration, development of individualized learning plans, and fostering professional relationships. Ideal candidates should be dynamic and committed to creating meaningful learning experiences.

Qualifications

• Collaborative team member with a student-centered approach.
• Ability to design learning activities that develop thinking competencies.
• Capacity to foster professional relationships with students, families, and the community.

Responsibilities

• Support students with mental health needs as part of a regional supports program.
• Engage in extra-curricular activities to enhance the school experience.
• Integrate technologies within Maker-centered learning environments.

Skills

Social emotional learning

Working with multi-disciplinary teams including medical professionals

Development and implementation of ILPs and BSPs

Job description

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, Tsuut’ina, 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.

Candidate Eligibility

We welcome all interested candidates to apply.

The Role

This position is part of the regional supports program that will be at Senator Riley school for the 2025-2026 school year. These supports will be focused on supporting students with mental health needs.

Experience and / or training in the following areas would be considered an asset :

• Social emotional learning
• Working with multi-disciplinary teams including medical professionals
• Development and implementation of ILPs and BSPs

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.

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