Description
Position: Applied Design, Skills, and Technology Teacher (full-time, permanent)
Department: ADST, Senior School
Reports To: Principal, Senior School
Start Date: August 27, 2025
Application Closing Date: April 18, 2025
Salary: $72,969 to $118,916
*The annual salary range will be updated with the 2025/26 salary grid.
St. George’s School is seeking an experienced and energized teacher to join the Applied Design, Skills, and Technology (ADST) department at the Senior School.
Applicants should have a primary specialization in programming, computation thinking, and robotics with secondary specialization in drafting. Our school has a robust robotics co-curricular program; the ability to support this would be expected. Although expected to primarily teach ADST courses, this role may require teaching other subjects to ensure a 1.0 FTE teaching load. This role requires an innovative teaching professional to support a collaborative learning environment using engaging and meaningful pedagogy focused on student learning and growth.
Faculty are required to support the school’s co-curricular program for two of three terms, as well as the advisory program throughout the year.
In order to provide the best possible learning environment for our diverse, multicultural student population, St. George's actively seeks to recruit staff from groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in independent and international schools. BIPoC and 2SLGBTQIA+ people and those with disabilities are warmly encouraged to apply, and invited to reach out for more information about our commitment to diversity, inclusion and belonging.
Responsibilities will include:
- Adjust courses to meet industry and post-secondary needs and trends.
- Bring in a diversity of voices and worldviews to classroom material and learning experiences, including Indigenous, local, and global perspectives.
- Demonstrate commitment to incorporating real-world connections and problem solving into teaching and learning.
- Collaborate with colleagues to align planning, instruction, and assessment across sections of a course.
- Utilize outcomes-based assessment, Universal Design for Learning curriculum planning, as well as strong formative and summative assessment strategies.
- Incorporate Core Competencies regularly into lessons, assessments, and feedback.
- Build a strong rapport with students and supporting the students in bringing out their best, both in and out of the classroom.
- Regular and prompt communication to students, parents, and other stakeholders about student needs and growth, including but not limited to IEP meetings, formal report cards, and parent-teacher-student conferences.
- Become involved in helping with and/or leading ADST-related enrichment activities, both within and outside of class time including but not limited to competition, hack-a-thons, Flex Day programming, etc.
- Use a variety of pedagogical approaches & lesson design.
- Make relevant and innovative use of multiple technologies in the classroom, including using Canvas as a student learning platform and Gradebook for reporting.
- Participate actively in professional development opportunities and training programs.
- Model the school’s core competencies which include: humility, integrity, respect, resilience, empathy and responsibility.
- Required to be involved in the robotics co-curricular program two terms out of three.
- Lead a small group of students in-school Advisory program, providing leadership and mentorship in social-emotional learning.
Qualifications will include:
- Post-secondary degree in the areas relevant for ADST including by not limited to: Computer Science, Data Science, Architecture, Urban Design, Drafting or relevant areas.
- Experience with teaching Robotics at Grade 8-10 levels and engaging students in a Robotics program is an asset.
- Valid BC Teaching Certificate, or maintains the ability to obtain one.
- Knowledge of BC’s ADST curricula, Grades 8 through 12. especially modules and courses in drafting and computing.
- Skills in Java, Python, and Javascript or PHP, VEX Robotics and electronics skills. MySQL and other relevant technologies are considered an asset.
- Experience teaching algorithmic thinking and computational thinking, which includes problem solving and analyzing programs.
- Experience with curriculum design, design thinking, inquiry-based teaching.
- Current on pedagogical trends through continued reading and relevant recent professional development.
- Strong classroom management abilities.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills.
- Strong problem-solving and organizational skills.
- Collaborative team player with excellent interpersonal skills, with a particular emphasis on collaborative planning and assessment.
- Superior skills in knowledge of curriculum, teaching and learning, specifically when planning educational strategies.
- Strongly committed to student learning and success; being able to understand the needs of students while engaging them as active learners in the classroom.
- Dynamic and energetic individual who wishes to work in a highly focused environment with students keen to succeed.
- Superior EQ skills in self-awareness, self-management, social agility, impact and influence.
Interested applicants should email a cover letter and resume to: careers@stgeorges.bc.ca
