Job prospects Special Education Teacher - Elementary School in Northwest Territories

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Job opportunities in Northwest Territories

These outlooks were updated on December 11, 2024.

Prospects over the next 3 years

The employment outlook will be good for Elementary school and kindergarten teachers (NOC 41221) in Northwest Territories for the 2024-2026 period.

The following factors contributed to this outlook:

• Employment growth will lead to a few new positions.
• Not many positions will become available due to retirements.
• There are a small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation.

• Most employees within these occupations work at one of the Northwest Territories' 49 schools within its ten education bodies, including the commission scolaire francophone des Territoires du Nord-Ouest and Yellowknife Catholic Schools.
• Schools and education authorities recruit and hire their own employees in Northwest Territories.
• Despite little position growth and low attrition levels in the Northwest Territories, this occupation is expected to be in demand throughout the forecast period because of ongoing local and nationwide teacher staffing shortages.
• Staffing shortages in the Northwest Territories' education sector were present at the start of the fall 2024 school year, especially within rural communities (CBC News, August 28, 2024).
• A housing shortage, particularly in rural communities, is also affecting the territory's ability to recruit and retain qualified teachers.
• Elementary school teachers were ranked as one of the top 25 most in demand occupations in the territory for the 2023 to 2032 period according to the Government of the Northwest Territories (2023).

Here are some key facts about Elementary school and kindergarten teachers in Northwest Territories:

• Approximately 500 people worked in this occupation in May 2021.
• Elementary school and kindergarten teachers mainly work in the following sectors:
  • Educational services (NAICS 61): 95%
• The distribution of full-time and part-time workers in this occupation is:
  • Full-time workers: 92% compared to 88% for all occupations
  • Part-time workers: 8% compared to 12% for all occupations
• 94% of elementary school and kindergarten teachers work all year, while 6% work only part of the year, compared to 71% and 28% respectively among all occupations. Those who worked only part of the year did so for an average of 50 weeks compared to 44 weeks for all occupations.
• The gender distribution of people in this occupation is:
  • Men: 15% compared to 52% for all occupations
  • Women: 85% compared to 48% for all occupations
• The educational attainment of workers in this occupation is:
  • no high school diploma: less than 5% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • high school diploma or equivalent: 7% compared to 26% for all occupations
  • apprenticeship or trades certificate or diploma: less than 5% compared to 12% for all occupations
  • college certificate or diploma or university certificate below bachelor's: 9% compared to 18% for all occupations
  • bachelor's degree: 63% compared to 17% for all occupations
  • university certificate, degree or diploma above bachelor level: 17% compared to 9% for all occupations

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