Middle School Art & Digital Media Teacher

Position Responsibilities

Middle School Educator Responsibilities

• Foster a sense of student belonging by cultivating joy and purpose throughout the Middle School.

• Cultivate a caring and culturally responsive learning community in Advisory, as well as the classroom, taking into account physical, emotional, and intellectual well-being of students.

• Experience and/or demonstrated skills facilitating restorative conversations when supporting student behavior in the learning environment.

• Identify essential learning and use a planning framework with standards, learning targets, real-world issues, and a culturally responsive curriculum.

• Design quality formative, summative and self-guided assessments that provide students with frequent feedback and communicate students’ growth and achievement.

• Plan and implement engaging learning experiences that are inquiry-based, collaborative, culturally responsive, and differentiated.

• Respond to learners’ diverse needs using responsive, measurable, and research-informed interventions and extensions.

• Collaborate as a member of a Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) that creates a supportive community, plans curriculum, gives and receives feedback with one another, and engages in professional learning and reflection.

• Actively engage in professional learning and growth through regular observation and feedback cycles with Professional Learning Community Coaches and Principals.

• Design and implement inquiry-based learning experiences in and beyond the classroom to prompt learners to question, investigate, create, and reflect.

• Experience with or interest in co-teaching in a flexible learning environment.

• Demonstrate an understanding of interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

• Integrate technology in innovative ways in daily instruction to enhance learning.

• Engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the classroom that extend student learning experiences (coaching, organizing field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, overseas travel and/or community service projects, etc.).

• Strive for continuous self-improvement as a life-long learner.

• Model the Core Values in your interactions with all members of the school community.

• Lead and engage with students in meaningful activities beyond the learning spaces, which extend learning experiences for students (supervision, overnight Classroom Without Walls trips, sports coaching, field trips, sponsorship of clubs, events, TRi Time, community service projects, etc.)

• Connect with and be available to parents and students during and outside of school hours (in person and via email communication).

Role-Specific Responsibilities

Visual Arts

• Knowledge and understanding of National Core Art Standards (NCAS), effective instructional strategies, and assessment driven instruction related to elementary art teaching and learning.

• Expertise in multiple mediums: Teach using a variety of materials, including painting, sketching, sculpting, digital media, and more, encouraging students to explore different forms of artistic expression.

• Practicing artist: Actively engaged in own art practice; sharing this with students to inspire and demonstrate the value of artistic exploration and lifelong creativity.

Digital Media

• Experience teaching using Adobe Photoshop, Procreate, iMovie and DSLR Cameras.

• The Middle School Digital Media teacher teaches elective courses that cover Digital Design, Digital Film, Digital Photography and Digital Media courses covering the skills of sound design and soundtracking, digital photography, graphic design, and filmmaking. Objectives for these courses are from the National Core Arts Standards.

Position Requirements & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in a relevant field.

• Master’s Degree in relevant field preferred.

• Teaching license or a degree in education.

• At least two years of full-time teaching experience preferred.

• Standards-based curriculum experience preferred.

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.

• Confident technology skills for teaching and administrative tasks.

Working Requirements

• Sponsoring and/or coaching after-school activities are part of the responsibility of the professional educator. Therefore, faculty shall be available to coach and/or sponsor an athletic team or other extracurricular activity. Each faculty member is expected to do a minimum of one Category 1 activity or sport per year.

• Required attendance at school professional learning days.

• Chaperone and participate in evening and/or weekend school activities each year, as assigned (including “Back-to-School Night”).