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We are recruiting founding teachers.

Educators in fieldcraft, martial arts, attention, mathematics and physics, philosophy or original inquiry who can teach in person in Jasper.

Teacher application form

Fill in the form, download your answers and email them to vincent@ujasper.ca.

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Your craft

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Describe your subject, teaching experience and one concrete example of a learner’s progress.

A lesson, project, research page, portfolio or CV link. Use only material you are entitled to share.

Where could you contribute?

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A small group seated on a rocky ridge above a mountain lake, with one person standing beside them

The invitation

Teach where explanation
meets experience.

Jasper brings fieldcraft, martial arts, attention, science and philosophy into one learning life. We are developing a founding teaching team that can move between careful explanation, direct experience and honest disagreement.

Your evidence matters: work you understand deeply, learners you have helped, a method you can explain and the judgment to know your limits.

Explore the teaching areas Read the instructor guide

Six teaching areas

One school.
Six areas of practice.

Proposed teaching roles. Scope and terms to be agreed.

  1. 01

    Preparation · Navigation · Hiking · Camping

    36 teaching hours

    Prepare for this role
  2. 02

    Balance · Footwork · Pad work · Knowing when to stop

    18 teaching hours

    Prepare for this role
  3. 03

    Meditation · Reflection · Equal alternatives

    12 teaching hours

    Prepare for this role
  4. 04

    Units · Mechanics · Uncertainty · Experiments

    30 teaching hours

    Prepare for this role
  5. 05

    Primary texts · Context · Opposing arguments

    30 teaching hours

    Prepare for this role
  6. 06

    Questions · Tested artifacts · Feedback · Authorship

    18 teaching hours

    Prepare for this role

Hours shown are the learner-facing course allocation across six weeks. Preparation, assessment, coordination and camping supervision require separate time and agreed resources. More than one person may share an area.

The teaching challenge

Show us how you teach.

Twenty minutes. No screen. Make it understood.

Choose one idea worth understanding. Open with a question. Give learners something to do. Find out whether their reasoning has changed.

  1. 01

    What is the question?

  2. 02

    What will learners actually do?

  3. 03

    What would count as understanding?

  4. 04

    How will you adapt when the first approach fails?

A short written lesson plan is enough. No unpaid trial delivery, video production or public performance is required for this draft.

What good teaching looks like here

Depth. Generosity.
Sound judgment.

  1. 01

    Know the work.

    Bring demonstrable subject knowledge and appropriate qualifications for the activity. Make evidence, sources and uncertainty visible.

  2. 02

    Make room for independence.

    Welcome a serious objection. Offer meaningful adaptations. Help learners think and act with increasing agency.

  3. 03

    Take responsibility.

    Prepare carefully, maintain professional boundaries and work with the local team. Field and martial roles require verified activity competence.

  4. 04

    Agree the terms clearly.

    Appointments, employment or contract status, compensation, dates and resources remain unconfirmed. Review these before accepting any role or making travel plans.

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