Teacher / Principal / Instructor Employment Opportunities
Employment Opportunity Full Time Position: Assistant Principal
Peigan Board of Education
Employment Opportunity Full Time Position: Assistant Principal
Position: Full Time
Position Summary
The Assistant Principal will plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop and fulfill their academic potential. The Assistant Principal will report to the school Principal and will work closely with administrative staff to obtain the goal of providing quality education to students that promotes and enhances the Piikani Nation’s unique language, culture and traditions. Community collaboration will be a requirement of this position with the goal of promoting social, physical, intellectual and cultural growth for Piikani School children.
Position Responsibilities
- Assist Principal with instructional programming;
- Deliver disciplinary procedure as per PBOE policy;
- Administer extra-curricular activities
- Participate in PBOE strategic planning initiatives;
- Participate in school evaluation initiatives;
- Observe, supervise, mentor, and evaluate staff performance
- Develop school initiatives which enhance and promote student success
- Monitor First Nations Student Success Program including planning and budgets (requisitions, budgets, approval process, monitoring, and collaboration/accounting with PBOE Financial Administrator)
- Ensure the Alberta Education Program of Studies are being implemented in classrooms
- Ensure the Teacher Quality Standards Knowledge, Skills, & Attributes are being attained by teaching staff
- Chair meetings (staff, divisional, specialist, etc)
- Inter-curricular and extra-curricular supervision
- Infusion of Piikani First Nations ways of knowing including culture and language programming
- Strive to develop an energetic, positive, creative school atmosphere
- Strive to develop teacher mentorship in school
Education and Requirements
- Bachelor degree in education
- Masters degree in education
- 5 – 7 years of experience as a senior teacher or department manager
- Teachers certificate for the province of Alberta
- Clean criminal record check & intervention check
Deadline September 23, 2022 before 4 pm
Submit cover letter, resume, references letters (3), copies of education requirements and background checks to:
PEIGAN BOARD OF EDUCATION – Attn: Human Resources
P.O. Box 130 Brocket, AB T0K 0H0
Tel: 403-965-3910 Fax: 403-965-3713
Email: lpard@piikani.ca
Employment Opportunity Position: Blackfoot Language and Culture Coordinator
Peigan Board of Education
Employment Opportunity Position: Blackfoot Language and Culture Coordinator
Reports to: Superintendent
Overview
Reporting to the Superintendent, the Blackfoot Language & Culture (BLC) Coordinator will collaborate with all PBOE staff and and the BLC committee to ensure that Blackfoot language, culture, history, and protocols are evident in all PBOE organizational activities. The BLC Coordinator will continue the documentation, research, stabilization and promotion of Piikanissini and the Blackfoot Language and Culture. The BLC Coordinator will work within the policies and procedures established by Peigan Board of Education.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Lead the development of structure and protocol of Elder/resource presentations
- Assist in the research and plan development of Blackfoot 30 graduation requirement for PNSS students
- Manage the development of the Piikani Language Revitalization Initiative
- Ensure the ongoing education of Piikani students in Piikanissini by consulting and collaborating with Piikani Elders, storytellers and historians to bring authentic cultural components into classrooms
- Ensure Piikani students are educated in Treaty 7 and the Blackfoot Confederacy as it relates to Piikanissini
- Ensure Piikani students are educated in the Truth & Reconciliation on Indian Residential Schools
- Provide the opportunity to Piikani students and their families in the Piikani traditional name giving ceremony
- Research and implement a locally developed instructional program for Blackfoot language and culture
- Assist in the coordination of Blackfoot Language & Culture instruction by developing a BLC work plan in collaboration with the BLC committee
- Assist in the development of a strategy for Blackfoot Language instruction to all PBOE educators, teachers, elders through professional development
- Assist administrators in implementing BLC / Piikanissini program of studies into all subjects
- Evaluate and develop strategies to measure student success in language and culture revitalization initiatives
- Assist educators in the development and implementation of multiple intelligence strategies and methods of instruction
- Provide online BLC content to the PBOE website and ensure the content is continuously updated
- Complete the development and writing of the book: Piikani: A Nation in Transition (Vol. 2)
- Host and administer the Elders Senate
- Proposal writing
Education & Experience:
- Post-secondary degree in education or in the social sciences or relevant field of study
- 5-7 years of program management experience
- Strong knowledge and awareness of Blackfoot Language and Culture (Piikanissini)
- Fluent speaker of the Blackfoot language
- Must have valid driver’s license and transportation
- Must have clean security record checks
- Must provide letters of reference from a minimum of two Piikani Nation Elders
Qualifications:
- Strong communication, writing and organizational skills are essential
- Effective interpersonal, analytical skills and problem solving skills
- Experience in planning, developing and implementing events and activities
- Ability to work unsupervised and demonstrate motivation and initiative
Interested candidates may apply by fax or email with cover letter, resume, copies of education requirements, letters of reference & security checks to:
Peigan Board of Education
P.O Box 130
Brocket, AB, T0K 0H0
Tel: 403-965-2121 Fax: 403-965-3713
Email: lpard@piikani.ca
Application DEADLINE UPDATED: September 23, 2022
We would like to thank all applicants, but only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Employment Opportunity Full Time Position: Junior High Teacher – Grade 7
Peigan Board of Education
Announcing the Availability of the Following Full Time Position: Junior High Teacher – Grade 7
Position: Full Time
Position Summary
Peigan Board of Education is eager to provide the members of Piikani Nation, as well as other persons attending schools on the Piikani Nation, with quality education in an authentic learning environment that aims to meet the aspirations of the Piikani people, including the institution of programs and other activities that promote and enhance the Piikani Nation’s unique language, culture and traditions; Peigan Board of Education is keen in hiring Teachers who will plan, organize and implement an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to develop and fulfill their academic potential.
Position Responsibilities
- use Alberta Education Program of Studies Educational Outcomes to plan, prepare and deliver instructional activities that facilitate active learning experiences
- implement Alberta Teacher Association Teacher Quality Standards Knowledge, Skills and Attributes
- infuse planning documents and lessons with Piikani ways of knowing/Piikanissini
- adhere to Peigan Board of Education Policy
- develop long and short range plans, daily lessons plans, and scope and sequence for each course including assessments practices
- establish and communicate clear outcomes for all learning activities
- prepare classroom for class activities
- provide a variety of learning materials and resources for use in educational activities
- identify and select instructional resources and methods to meet students’ varying needs
- refer, participate and plan assessments of students requiring Special Education/Learning Support services
- plan and deliver differentiated instruction to students whose learning support requires such teaching as identified in student Individual Program Plans (IPP)
- instruct and monitor students in the use of learning materials and equipment
- use relevant technology to support instruction
- observe and evaluate student’s performance and development
- assign and grade class work, homework, tests and assignments
- provide appropriate feedback on work
- encourage and monitor the progress of individual students
- maintain accurate and complete records of students’ progress and development
- update all attendance records, grading reports, report cards, anecdotal records regularly, accurately and completely
- prepare required reports on students and activities
- manage student behavior in the classroom by establishing and enforcing rules and procedures
- maintain discipline in accordance with the rules and disciplinary systems of the school
- apply appropriate disciplinary measures where necessary
- perform certain learning support duties including student support, counseling students with academic problems and providing student encouragement
- participate in extracurricular activities such as social activities, sporting activities, clubs and student organizations
- participate in school meetings (staff, parent, committee, divisional, specialist, collaborative)
- communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues and parents regarding student progress and student needs including attending Parent Teacher Interviews
- keep updated through professional development in subject area, teaching resources, methods and new school initiatives and make relevant changes to instructional plans and activities
Education and Requirements
- Bachelor of Education or higher from an accredited institution
- Alberta Education Teaching Certification – Interim or Professional
- Criminal Record Check and Child & Youth Information Module (CYIM) Check
- Demonstrated knowledge of Blackfoot Language and Culture
DEADLINE UPDATED September 25, 2022
Submit cover letter, resume, references letters (3), copies of education requirements and background checks to:
PEIGAN BOARD OF EDUCATION – Attn: Human Resources
P.O. Box 130 Brocket, AB T0K 0H0
Tel: 403-965-3910 Fax: 403-965-3713
Email: lpard@piikani.ca
