Description
Position: Kindergarten Teacher Full-time, permanent (2 positions)
Department: Primary, Junior School
Reports To: Principal, Junior School
Starting Date: August 27, 2025
Application Closing Date: March 26, 2025
*Interviews will likely be arranged and take place in early April.
Salary: $72,969 to $118,916
*The annual salary range will be updated with the 2025/26 salary grid.
St. Georges School is seeking two experienced and energized teachers to join our kindergarten team. These roles require innovative teaching professionals to support a collaborative learning environment using engaging and meaningful pedagogy focused on student learning and growth at the kindergarten level.
Each of our two kindergarten classes will have a Literacy Lead and Numeracy Lead, and lessons will be shared between you and your partnered lead teacher, promoting differentiation and lower student-to-teacher ratios in each class. The current vacancies are for one literacy-focused kindergarten teacher and one numeracy-focused kindergarten teacher.
Faculty are required to support our co-curricular program for two of the three terms. The co-curricular program includes athletic, academic, artistic, and community activities, with each activity offered a minimum of once weekly per term.
A successful St. Georges kindergarten teacher embodies the following core values: empathy, integrity, humility, respect, responsibility, and resilience.
In order to provide the best possible learning environment for our diverse, multicultural student population, St. George's actively seeks to recruit from groups that have traditionally been 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:
- Bringing a diversity of voices and worldviews to classroom material and learning experiences, including Indigenous, local, and global perspectives.
- Incorporating real-world connections and problem solving into teaching and learning.
- Collaborating with colleagues to align planning, instruction, and assessment across sections of a Kindergarten curriculum.
- Using outcome-based assessment and instruction and strong formative and summative assessment strategies.
- Incorporating the Ministrys Core Competencies regularly into lessons, assessments, and feedback.
- Building a strong rapport with students and supporting the students in bringing out their best, both in and out of the classroom.
- Regularly communicating 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.
- Using a variety of pedagogical approaches and lesson design.
- Making relevant and innovative use of multiple technologies in the classroom, including using Canvas as the student LMS, and Gradebook for reporting.
- Participating actively in professional development opportunities and training programs.
- Modeling the schools core competencies which include: humility, integrity, respect, resilience, empathy and responsibility.
- Involvement in co-curriculars two out of three terms.
Qualifications will include:
- Post-secondary degree with Primary focus.
- Valid BC or Independent School Teaching Certificate, the ability to obtain one.
- Minimum of 3-5 years of teaching experience at the kindergarten level.
- Excellent knowledge and expertise in PHE and/or the arts for kindergarten.
- Knowledge of subject matter, curriculum and ministry requirements for teaching primary literacy, in particular at the kindergarten level.
- Keeping 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 knowledge of curriculum and teaching and learning skills, specifically when planning educational strategies.
- Strongly committed to student learning/success; being able to understand students needs while engaging them as active learners.
- Being a dynamic and energetic individual who wishes to work in a highly focused environment with students keen to succeed.
- Superior EQ skills in self-awareness, impact, self-management, social agility, and influence.
Interested applicants should email a cover letter and resume to: careers@stgeorges.bc.ca
