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The Sahtu Divisional Education Council invites well prepared and highly motivated teacher applicants to apply for upper elementary positions at Mackenzie Mountain School in Norman Wells and Chief Albert Wright School in Tulita. Apply to teach@sahtudec.ca The two positions are available in January 2025, and the term may be extended into the 2025 - 2026 school year. Come for a year; explore your options, and quite possibly you will want to stay for a career and call this home! Email: teach@sahtudec.ca
The Sahtu region of the Northwest Territories offers diverse teaching opportunities where positive relationships with students, families, colleagues and communities are very often the deciding factors that keep exemplary teachers in our midst for many years. Spectacular outdoor recreation in all seasons, wide open natural spaces, healthy lifestyles and topnotch remuneration are part of the package, along with small class sizes in small community schools. Endless opportunities to develop and deepen teaching and school leadership skills attract motivated educators willing to learn as much as they teach. Land and place are central in the lives of our students and our teachers learn the community language and culture. Growing Forward Together, we prioritize Indigenous language, culture and worldviews infused in teaching and learning that develop healthy competent and engaged community members and citizens of the Northwest Territories.
Upper Elementary Teachers
The Sahtu Divisional Education Council is seeking energetic, collaborative, and highly motivated Elementary Teachers for two term positions until June 2025.
The candidate must have or be completing a Bachelor of Education degree and be eligible for a Northwest Territories Teaching Certificate.
The following criteria will be important considerations in the hiring process:
Willingness and skill to implement best practices in Elementary teaching and a thorough understanding of play-based, inquiry-based, outcomes-based and cooperative learning
Deep understanding of inclusive and trauma-informed practices with mindfulness and self-regulation as foundational to classroom routines
Strong skills in direct reading instruction using the Comprehensive (Balanced) Literacy framework and utilizing divisional tools and resources such as Fountas and Pinnell Reading Assessments, Fountas and Pinnell Classroom, and Levelled Literacy Intervention
Strong skills in writing instruction and methodologies that value creativity and place-based approaches, while using differentiation and inclusive practices to reach all students
Strong skills in interactive hands-on numeracy where math learning is fun, challenging and curriculum-aligned and where formative assessments are integrated in daily and weekly planning to support student success. Number talks are daily routines and mathematical thinking, mathematical vocabulary, and manipulatives are integrated.
Strong collaboration skills as teachers work together to improve students’ holistic outcomes
Embrace strong connections with community and be open to engage fully in the rich cultural and extracurricular life of the school
Salary is dependent on experience and qualifications and ranges from $91,570 - $147,835 per annum, plus an attractive benefits package including a Northern Living Allowance of approximately $21,000 and relocation expenses.
A vulnerable sector check is a requirement.
For information, the NWT Teachers’ Collective Agreement is available online at https://my.hr.gov.nt.ca/resources/terms-employment/nwtta-collective-agreement