Latin Teacher: High School, Upper Elementary

Gilbertine Academy, Calgary

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Start Date: August 2026
Application Deadline: Open until filled

Job Purpose

The Gilbertine Academy and Holy House of Our Lady & St. John, a ministry of The Gilbertine Institute, is a classical Catholic school that honours the theological order of the domestic Church by upholding parents as the primary educators of their children. The school provides a rich academic and spiritual environment, fostering both intellectual formation and moral virtue within the Catholic tradition. The part-time Latin teacher is an individual who understands Latin not merely as an academic subject, but as a discipline that forms the mind in attentiveness, logic, precision, and beauty. The successful candidate will help students encounter language as a doorway into history, theology, literature, and the life of the Church.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Teach Latin grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and translation across multiple grade levels

• Introduce younger students to Latin through engaging and developmentally appropriate instruction

• Lead high school students into increasingly rigorous grammatical and textual study

• Foster appreciation for the historical and ecclesial significance of Latin

• Support students in developing disciplined habits of study and attention to detail

• Integrate aspects of classical civilization, Church history, and Catholic intellectual tradition where appropriate

• Assess student learning through translation, memorization, oral work, and written exercises

• Maintain structured, orderly, and purposeful classroom environments

• Collaborate with faculty to support an integrated classical curriculum

• Participate in school liturgies, prayer, and community life

Qualifications & Personal Qualities

• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Classics, Humanities, or related field

• Competency in Latin grammar and translation

• Experience teaching Latin or classical languages preferred

• Familiarity with classical education models is an asset

• Ability to teach students across a wide developmental range

• Ability to engage students with warmth and authority

• Deep appreciation for the Catholic intellectual and cultural tradition

• Practicing Catholic in good standing, willing to take an Oath of Fidelity to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church

• Ability to work collaboratively within a small, mission-driven faculty

• Proficient with digital tools such as Google Suite/Classroom, Microsoft Office, and capable of learning new systems

• Professional, dependable, adaptable, and collaborative

Working Conditions

• Providing supply teaching as required.