Music, Band, and Grade 6/7 Teacher at Seymour Heights Elementary School
Start Date: September 8, 2026
End Date: March 31, 2027 or upon return of incumbent
FTE: 0.974
NATURE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
Seymour Heights prides itself on a positive community atmosphere. The Music/Band instructor is an important role within the school, working with all students from grades K-7 to collaborate around positive experiences for all learners.
This assignment includes 0.775 FTE Music, 0.119 FTE Band, and 0.08 FTE in a Grade 6/7 classroom.
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS
- A Bachelor of Education Degree (Elementary) specializing in Music.
- Successful experience teaching Music at the elementary level.
- Successful experience teaching at the Intermediate level.
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS, ATTRIBUTES and EXPERIENCE
- Strong commitment to excellence in teaching and demonstrated teaching ability.
- Comprehensive understanding of curriculum coupled with demonstrated ability to interpret curriculum appropriately to accommodate individual differences.
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement a variety of assessment practices to measure and monitor student progress effectively.
- Demonstrated ability to organize for instruction to maximize student potential.
- Confidence and proficiency in using instructional organizers, concepts, and strategies that actively engage all students in learning.
- Knowledge and demonstrated ability to structure and organize instructional strategies to enhance academic learning time.
- Practical knowledge of district initiatives in reading so that reading skills and strategies can be taught explicitly across the curriculum to insure reading success.
- Strategies to identify learning difficulties early, understand obstacles to learning, and implement effective intervention to maximize academic success.
- Knowledge and understanding of the application of relevant computer technologies to teaching and learning.
- Excellent written and oral communication.
- Evidence of personal initiative and strong work ethic.
- Demonstrated successful and creative classroom experience.
- Demonstrated ability to demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness to the needs and demands of the profession.
- Willingness to be involved in professional development, with an ongoing commitment to learn and implement new methodologies and strategies.
- Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with students, parents, and staff to enhance the school as a learning community.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
- Possession of a BC Teaching Certificate
- Membership in the BC Teacher Regulation Branch.
- A member of the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association and the BC Teachers’ Federation.
