Elementary Music Teacher & Instructional Leader

ReNEW Schools; Muncie (IN); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

ReNEW Schools in Indiana seeks an instrumental music teacher with a Bachelor’s degree and a valid Indiana Instrumental Teaching license to lead marching band programs and direct classroom instruction.

You will design engaging lessons aligned with Indiana standards, assess student progress, and collaborate with administrators and families to promote student achievement.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree is required
• Indiana Instrumental Teaching license or eligible to receive one
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing

Responsibilities

• Assist in the achievement of the short and long-term educational goals of the school corporation.
• Serve as the instructional leader in the classroom.
• Design and conduct learning situations which instruct students in the content of one's respective discipline per the MCS adopted curriculum, course of study and Indiana Academic Standards.
• Stimulate each student to want to live an honest, responsible, fruitful life, instilling within each one a feeling of competency and productivity.
• Encourage students through a positive personal attitude to utilize every opportunity for a constructive learning experience.
• Systematically acquire knowledge about individual students for helping them plan and conduct needed learning experiences.
• Teach students the skills for recognizing fact, opinion, theory, approximation, bias, and propaganda, and for evaluating each in terms of personal value.
• Participate in curricular and program development with principals, supervisors, and department chairpersons for initiating curricular improvements meeting students' needs.
• Assume active participation in in-service programs for professional improvement.
• Observe established policies of the corporation and school; make recommendations for changes in policies when advisable.
• Confer with students and parents at appropriate and set times.
• Sponsor and supervise reasonable extracurricular assignments, chaperon school events, and monitor assigned areas.
• Involve the students and parents, when feasible, in planning, implementing, and evaluating units of study.
• Execute teaching activities in a constructive and meaningful manner.
• Evaluate student progress, issue grades and reports; prepare, record and report class attendance.
• Handle discipline problems within classroom areas, arrange and conduct parent conferences; assist in building discipline and security.
• Supervise paraprofessional, student, and volunteer helpers.
• Perform other duties assigned by the Principal.

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Indiana Instrumental Teaching license

Tools

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Job description

Education:Bachelor’s degree and valid Indiana Instrumental Teaching license or eligible to receive a valid Indiana Instrumental Teacher’s license or permit.

Experience:Experience with Marching Band programs, preferred. Professional experience in the employment discipline with professional, technical, and experience requirements.Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

• Assist in the achievement of the short and long-term educational goals of the school corporation.
• Serve as the instructional leader in the classroom.

·Design and conduct learning situations which instruct students in the content of one's respective discipline per the MCS adopted curriculum, course of study and Indiana Academic Standards.

·Stimulate each student to want to live an honest, responsible, fruitful life, instilling within each one a feeling of competency and productivity.

·Encourage students through a positive personal attitude to utilize every opportunity for a constructive learning experience.

·Systematically acquire knowledge about individual students for helping them plan and conduct needed learning experiences.

·Teach students the skills for recognizing fact, opinion, theory, approximation, bias, and propaganda, and for evaluating each in terms of personal value.

·Participate in curricular and program development with principals, supervisors, and department chairpersons for initiating curricular improvements meeting students' needs.

·Assume active participation in in-service programs for professional improvement.

·Observe established policies of the corporation and school; make recommendations for changes in policies when advisable.

·Confer with students and parents at appropriate and set times.

·Sponsor and supervise reasonable extracurricular assignments, chaperon school events, and monitor assigned areas.

·Involve the students and parents, when feasible, in planning, implementing, and evaluating units of study.

·Execute teaching activities in a constructive and meaningful manner.

·Evaluate student progress, issue grades and reports; prepare, record and report class attendance.

·Handle discipline problems within classroom areas, arrange and conduct parent conferences; assist in building discipline and security.

·Supervise paraprofessional, student, and volunteer helpers.

·Perform other duties assigned by the Principal.