KG Teacher

Job description / Role

The Canadian International School is a K-12 private school with 700 students and over 100 professional and support staff. We are accredited by Alberta Education to teach the Alberta Program of Studies and thus, our high school students graduate with an Alberta High School Diploma. Although our student population is made up of over 70 different nationalities, the majority of our teaching staff is from Canada. With our Alberta Education accreditation we are seeking Alberta Certified teachers, or those with comparable qualifications, to add to our faculty.

Requirements

- Have a Bachelor of Education degree with training in Elementary Education/Early Childhood
- Minimum 2 years teaching experience
- Be certified to teach in Alberta or be willing & eligible to obtain certification status with Alberta Education
- Be prepared to work collaboratively with other teachers and support staff as a member of a professional learning community
- Have strong, positive interpersonal skills
- Be willing to contribute to the school's extracurricular program
- Be independent, open-minded, and willing to meet the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities that teaching in a foreign country presents.

About the Company

Welcome to a school that responds to the needs of 21st century expatriate students. We are living in an international community, so our school must provide a learning environment that cultivates the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to compete in an increasingly global society. Right from the embracing arch at the entrance of CIS, students, parents, teachers and staff know that they are walking into a facility that has been purposely designed for a community of learners to meet the demands of our international world.

At CIS, the Alberta Program of Study provides the internationally renowned standards and curriculum framework to support Inquiry-Based Learning (IBL), a student-centered educational philosophy that has proven to increase students abilities to problem-solve. Students are presented a guiding question, and then must use their prior knowledge and skills to build direct and meaningful correlations to solve the problem. Math, English, Social Studies, Science, Information and Communication Technology, Fine Arts fuse as they are explored in real life contexts that demand and allow for multiple intelligences to shine.