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Junior High Health and Physical Education

Athabasca, AB
Junior
full_time

About the role

Aspen View Public Schools, with a division office located in the town of Athabasca, is a rural school division providing diverse and innovative programming to students in a number of communities. The division is unique in that it is surrounded by a multitude of lakes, golf courses and trails that appeal to an active, outdoor lifestyle while still being in close proximity to larger urban centers.

Many schools within Aspen View are geographically located to allow beginning teachers to meet the requirements of the Northern Student Teacher Bursary and/or Northern Alberta Development Council bursaries

Edwin Parr Composite School, located in the Town of Athabasca, serves approximately 700 students from Grades 7-12. The new school building opened in September 2018. Athabasca lies two hours north of Edmonton with a population of 3,000 within the town; and an additional 4,000 in the surrounding county.

Edwin Parr Composite School is recruiting a junior high health and physical education teacher. The successful candidate will be organized and able to effectively manage time, resources and classroom responsibilities to deliver engaging and age-appropriate health and physical education lessons to junior high students.

For additional information, please contact Brenna Kowalchuk, Principal at 780-675-2285.

This position will commence upon hiring.

Applications may be ; review of applications will begin on Friday, September 5th and remain open until a suitable candidate is hired. Please include an updated resume, two professional references and a copy of Alberta Teacher Certification. A current criminal record check including vulnerable sector check and child intervention check, dated within the past six (6) months, must be provided prior to an employment contract being issued.

We appreciate interest in this position; however, only those candidates selected for an interview will be contacted. Please note references may be contacted as part of the shortlisting process.

About Aspen View Public Schools

Aspen View School Division, more commonly referred to as Aspen View Public Schools or AVPS, is a regional and primarily rural school authority located north of Edmonton, Alberta. AVPS is 9,980 sq km in size.

In September 2021, there were 2,511 Kindergarten to Grade 12 students registered to attend one of AVPS’s 10 schools, four Hutterite Brethren schools, two Outreach/Off-Campus/Virtual schools and two Institutional Schools. Our division employs 364 staff; with 176.64 Full Time Equivalences (FTEs) being teachers or administrators.