Position: FB - 7 - Educational Assistant – EA 3 (Literacy)/4

Location: Father Beauregard

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date: August 29, 2025

Closing Date: August 22, 2025

Job Reference: FB7-08132025

Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in ECS and Literacy grades 1-6. This position is assisting students who demonstrate significant academic delays and who require additional academic focus in literacy and numeracy interventions.

Qualifications:

• Educational Assistant Certificate AND/OR Bachelors Degree in Education, English, Linguistics or similar is required
• Division Literacy Certification and the 2023/2024 refresher training preferred; if no applicants with both, then candidates with the 2023/2024 refresher training will be considered; if no applicants with the refresher training, then candidates with working experience in a Literacy position from 2024/2025 will be considred; if no candidates identified then must possess the required educational background for the 2025/2026 school year

o Successful candidate will be required to participate in ongoing literacy and numeracy training

• May be required to obtain NVCI Level A&B

Requirements:

• Work on literacy, numeracy, and/or ELL approaches with individual students or small groups
• Support students’ growth in the areas of cognition, communication, physical and social development
• Support and/or implement teacher directed programming
• Work collaborative under guidance of teacher, CST and members of a multi-disciplinary team to support children with literacy and numeracy needs
• Plan daily reading, writing or numeracy activities under the direction of teacher or CST
• Adhere to guidelines set out within reading programs (Fountas and Pinnell, Jolly Phonics, etc) and evaluate effectiveness of strategies being used
• Follow any IPP/ISP strategies as directed by the teacher and CST
• Able to communicate the reading level of students and give strategies for reading, writing, and word decoding to students and parents
• Able to work with technology and implement iPads, Chromebooks, and SmartBoards, etc into daily intervention
• Understanding of vocabulary topics within a unit to assist with pre-teaching concepts from the curriculum
• Implement ELL approaches that may include vocabulary development, speaking english, reading and writing development
• Implement daily record keeping for student literacy, numeracy, or ELL portfolio
• Complete term progress checklists with teacher
• Provides support to the general operation of the school
• Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
• Implement specialist (OT, PT, SLP, etc) strategies to achieve required goals
• Implement behaviour management and educational strategies that facilitate student learning
• Communicate effectively with students using age appropriate positive reinforcements and/or school specific behaviour strategies
• Observe student behaviour with focus on achieving positive behavioural/educational outcomes and mitigate/prevent negative ones
• Provide high level of structure to facilitate completion of required learning outcomes
• Work and play at student’s physical level of their activities
• Provide support in use of adaptive and learning technologies using a variety of devices and associated programs
• Successfully implement the Positive Behaviour Plan(PBP), if required
• Medical Procedures – such as Catheter, Tube feeding, Feeding and swallowing support, toileting, or diabetic monitoring may be required
• Able to understand, implement and support modified curriculum
• Able to work with and support students with Autism or complex medical needs
• Able to work with students with emotional, behavioural or other disabilities
• Physically handle and transfer students when unsafe
• Physical ability to lift and move students
• Provide school directed indoor and outdoor student supervision

Employee is expected to work with behaviours related/associated with conduct, obsessive/compulsive, trauma and stress related, severe chronic depressive, feeding and/or eating disorders etc. Other behaviours related to ADHD, emotional/behavioural, learning and speech & language-related disabilities, etc may be encountered.

All FMCSD employees must have on file a clear Criminal Reference and a Vulnerable Sector Check. All FMCSD employees are expected to be computer literate; this includes fluency with e-mail, Internet and MS Office.

Only those applications submitted and received by 4:00pm on the closing date will be considered for this position. We thank all applicants for their interest**.**

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