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Round 3 - Junior High School Teacher - Social Studies & English Language Arts - Grades 8 & 9 - Temporary/Replacement Vacancy
@ Foothills School Division
Okotoks, Alberta
Overview
Foothills School Division is hiring a junior high teacher for Social Studies and English Language Arts in Grades 8 and 9 on a temporary replacement basis for the 2026/2027 school year. The work involves designing learning activities, assessing students and collaborating in a Professional Learning Community.
Responsibilities:
- Plan and deliver Social Studies and ELA lessons for Grades 8 and 9
- Assess individual student variables to inform learning design
- Collaborate in a Professional Learning Community
- Support extra-curricular and whole-school activities
- Build professional relationships with students, families and staff
Requirements summary:
- Certificated teacher
- Ability to integrate technology into learning
- Experience with experiential and Maker-centred learning
- Research-based, student-centred teaching practice
- Commitment to developing each learner
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Source and dates
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- Employer posting date
- 2026-11-05
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-05
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-06
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Seniority | Mid level |
| Hours per week | 40 (estimated) |
| Schedule | day |
| Travel | air: none · ground: none |
| Work setting | School |
| Position | Mostly standing |
| Physical demands | physical low · computer moderate |
| Languages | English |
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Foothills School Division
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 11 |
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.
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