Teacher in Special Education at the Primary and Secondary Levels

Start Date: 2026-08-24

Being a teacher means playing an essential role at the heart of student success. It involves planning, guiding, and adapting learning to meet diverse needs while creating a human, safe, and conducive learning environment for everyone's progress. On a daily basis, you observe, support, and encourage, transforming challenges into learning opportunities. Through your expertise, creativity, and human touch, you directly contribute to the development of students' skills, confidence, and autonomy. A vibrant, stimulating profession that is deeply meaningful.

Responsibilities

Join a stimulating environment where each day allows you to have a concrete impact on the lives of students with special needs!

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Why choose to teach students with ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorder)?

• Enriching collaborative work: You will work in a team with committed colleagues and health partners in an environment where interdisciplinarity is valued.
• Unique and endearing clientele: These students spark curiosity with their unique worldview, their ability to marvel at small details, and their overflowing passion for their interests.
• Immense potential: Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often reveal extraordinary abilities when they thrive in an environment tailored to their needs.
• Significant learning: Their educational journey requires a structured framework that stimulates their functional and social autonomy, providing the teacher with moments of great professional satisfaction.

Educational Tasks

• Deliver courses and lessons as per the school curriculum;
• Provide supervision and support.

Other Professional Tasks

• Be responsible for projects assigned by management;
• Engage in exchanges, follow-ups, and communications with other staff members, school management, and parents, etc. (intervention plan, student follow-up, etc.);
• Supervise student arrivals and movements;
• Prepare, plan, and correct work.

Requirements

Desired Requirements and Skills

• Be enrolled full-time in a Quebec university in a Bachelor of Music Education program, have completed 15 credits with proof of enrollment for the current year, and pass the French test (TECFÉE, SEL, or CÉFRANC) before the end of your studies.

OR

• Have one of the qualifications listed below (Qualifications section)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Teaching - Special Education - Asset
• Bachelor's Degree in Delinquency Intervention - Asset
• Bachelor's Degree in Psychoeducational Intervention - Asset
• Bachelor's Degree in Psychoeducation - Asset
• Bachelor's Degree in Psychology - Asset
• Bachelor's Degree in Intervention - Asset

Qualifications

• Provisional teaching authorization - Asset
• Teaching certificate - Asset
• Probationary teaching license - Asset

Languages

• Spoken French - High - Requirement
• Written French - High - Requirement

Benefits

• Support offered
• Access to our SIR platform (computerized replacement system) to choose substitute teaching at the preschool and primary levels
• Benefit from professional development: You will enjoy structured follow-ups and institutional knowledge that will help you better understand the services offered by the School Service Center;
• The CSSMB promotes a culture focused on well-being and balance. Disconnect to reconnect better!
• Diverse recreational programs and employee discounts
• Mentorship program
• Succession program to become a school principal
• Employee assistance program
• Telemedicine service

We also subscribe to an employment equity program and therefore invite women, Indigenous peoples, members of visible minorities, ethnic minorities, and persons with disabilities to submit their applications.

All our employees are subject to the Act respecting the laicity of the State and the Education Act (LIP). This law includes, among other things, the prohibition of wearing religious symbols for anyone in contact with students.