100% TERM Anishinaabemowin Language Teacher K-8

The Anishinaabemowin Language Teacher has an essential role in the Winnipeg School Division, ensuring that Anishinaabemowin is not only taught but lived and shared. Through immersive experiences, peer interaction, and meaningful language use, the Language Teacher will collaborate with the Classroom Teacher to create a dynamic, student-centered environment where Anishinaabemowin flourishes. This position is about more than just supporting teaching-it’s about keeping the language alive, growing, and thriving for generations to come.

Responsibilities

· Collaborate with Classroom Teachers: Teach conversational Anishinaabemowin alongside the classroom teacher through oral and aural pedagogies. Support teachers in integrating the language throughout the school day.

· Model and Facilitate Language Use: Speak exclusively in Anishinaabemowin during co-teaching, ensuring meaningful language acquisition for students and teacher-learners. Facilitate rich experiences where students hear, speak, share, and reflect on their learning.

· Whole-School Integration: Embed Anishinaabemowin indoors and outdoors, using spaces like Omand’s Creek and Naawi-Oodena as natural language lab sites. Work alongside music, physical education, and nature-based learning teachers to ensure language is present across all experiences.

· Community Engagement: Participate in celebration of learning evenings, open houses, and other events to support families in learning Anishinaabemowin. Build relationships that strengthen cultural and linguistic connections while celebrating dialectical differences.

· Effective Teaching Strategies: Teach orally without English translation, using gestures, images, objects, and modeling. Incorporate storytelling, nature walks, songs, and interactive, peer-to-peer teaching. Ensure language from songs extends into conversation.

· Growth Tracking & Self-Assessment through Reciprocity: Support students in assessing their progress in the language with reciprocity as the end in mind: Understanding Imitation Conversing Sharing Teaching Others. Provide audio-video recordings for self-assessment and celebrate language growth with the students and their families.

Qualifications

Minimum requirements for the position:

• Valid Manitoba Teaching Certificate.
• Fluency in Anishinaabemowin.
• Demonstrated commitment to Indigenous language revitalization and culturally responsive practice.

Preferred

• Experience teaching Anishinaabemowin.
• Experience with land-based education and community engagement.

How to apply

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Winnipeg School Division will provide reasonable accommodations to applicants disabled by barriers during the interview and assessment process, upon request.

About Winnipeg School Division

At WSD, every employee plays a vital role in helping students thrive. Together, we are guided by a shared purpose of creating learning environments rooted in equity, inclusion, and belonging. Serving nearly 32,000 students from diverse communities across Winnipeg, WSD is driven by the values of joy, love, and rigour.

WSD is one of Manitoba’s largest employers with over 6,000 full and part-time employees in 83 locations including 78 schools, two administrative buildings, a training centre, a facilities maintenance office, and a school bus depot.