Upper-School 9-12 Part-Time Schola ConductorTeacher
Upper-School 9-12 Part-Time Schola ConductorTeacher
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Job Description
Seeking someone with knowledge and love of sacred music that can form students in the tradition of Catholic sacred choral music and direct an upperschool schola. This role is an integral part of the broader classical Catholic approach of the school which seeks to immerse students in the ideas and beauty of the Western Tradition.
Responsibilities:
- Understand and uphold the Catholic Faith as it has been handed on being a role model of Christian love faith and virtue. Relate to students by loving them with the love of Christ encouraging them to develop their own relationship with God and challenging them to love others as Christ does.
- Lead students to an appreciation of all that is good true and beautiful in sacred music by teaching anddirecting students in a challenging and engaging way.
- Demonstrate expertise in choral conducting and a familiarity with Gregorian chant sacred polyphony and other significant strands of the sacred music tradition as well as the role of this tradition in the liturgy. Be able to communicate the basic principles and history of sacred music.
- Be available and able to organize and direct choral concerts and/or sacred music at Mass as determined in conversation with the headmaster.
- Be committed to continually develop teaching skills knowledge of the Western Tradition and a love of that Tradition through reading discussion collaboration with other teachers mentoring from the headmaster and communication with the larger classical school movement.
- Serve as an advocate for St. Thomas School and Classical Education by assisting in advancing classicalCatholic education among the faculty and parent community.
- Evaluate each students progress on a regular basis and report progress to the student parents and headmaster responding expediently to parent student or administrator inquiries. Partner with parents in supporting the academic social emotional and spiritual growth of the students.
- Exemplify and articulate a life of faith in Jesus Christ and the Catholic Church.
- Be passionate about integrating the Catholic Faith with all aspects of academic and school life.
- Agree with the classical Catholic educational philosophy of St. Thomas School demonstrate initiative in improving classical educational methods and possess a desire to develop intellectually and spiritually.
- Possess a Bachelors Degree in relevant subjectarea knowledge preferably from a liberal arts college grounded in the Western Tradition or have requisite experience in schola and sacred music.
Employment Type
Part-Time
