Music Teacher
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Job Description
Music teachers in Mount Vernon City School District (MVCSD) work with a diverse range of students to provides a dynamic intensive and supportive environment that nurtures students talents as music scholars performers songwriters and music industry entrepreneurs.
Music teachers in Mount Vernon City School District (MVCSD) schools will:
- Provide units of study in the arts that are challenging rigorous and meet the New York State P-12 Learning Standards for the Arts thus signifying recognition that the arts are essential for a well-rounded complete education and contribute to raising overall student achievement.
- Foster connections between the arts and other disciplines providing opportunities to access develop express and integrate meaning across various content areas.
- Through creating performing responding and connecting in the arts all students can generate meaningful experiences construct knowledge about the world and build a more integrated understanding of self and community.
- Directly engages students in a complex array of choices and critical decisions that require independent and collaborative goal-seeking persistence in overcoming creative and technical obstacles and the search for multiple solutions.
Position Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university is required; Masters degree is preferred
- A valid New York State Subject Area Certification
- Proven record of accomplishment for planning lessons with clear learning objectives and a means for assessing whether those objectives have been met
- Utilizes formal and informal assessment tools and knowledge of human development to employ appropriate learning activities.
- Strong organizational and communication skills
- Demonstrated content knowledge and familiarity with New York State P-12 Learning Standards for the Arts (i.e. Artistic Processes Anchor Standards Discipline-Specific Performance Indicators etc.)
- Demonstrated success in tailoring instruction to the needs of diverse learners
- Manages classroom routines and procedures.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others to achieve common goals
- Incorporates appropriate educational technology and media.
- Regularly communicate with parents outside of report cards and scheduled conferences.
- Attends all faculty meetings workshops faculty/staff retreats assemblies and celebrations.
- Maintains teacher web pages weekly updates of assignments and grades on the web portal production of interim quarterly and semester grades.
- Reflects critically upon his or her teaching experience identifies areas for further professional development as part of a professional development plan that is linked to grade level department and school philosophy and is receptive to suggestions for growth.
REPORTS TO: The Principal
Employment Type
Full-Time
