Position: District – 01 – Literacy - Educational Assistant – EA 3- Literacy

Location: St. Kateri and St. Gabriel Schools

Hours/Week: 25-31 Hours per week

Start Date: August 29, 2025

Closing Date: July 9, 2025

Job Reference: Dis01Lit-06302025

The Fort McMurray Catholic Schools is looking for a full-time Educational Assistant in Elementary 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 smilar is required
• Willing to work at two school locations
• 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

Requirements:

• Work on literacy, numeracy, and/or ELL approaches with individual students or small groups

• Work collaboratively under guidance from the CST, the teacher(s) and any other member of the multidisciplinary 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 the 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

Employee is expected to work with a variety of children who may exhibit 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.

The successful candidate will be required to provide a Criminal Reference Check and a Vulnerable Sector Check. FMCSD will contact past and present employers for references. 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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