Music Teacher

NEWPORT INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS; Newport (KY); On-site; USD 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

The Newport Independent Schools seeks a dedicated Music Teacher to contribute to student development in a nurturing environment. This full-time position will involve lesson planning, community engagement, and professional collaboration to enrich students' musical education. The ideal candidate will possess a Kentucky Teaching Certification and have a strong commitment to fostering students' growth as responsible individuals.

Qualifications

• Appropriate KY Teaching Certification required.
• Professional leadership and communication skills are essential.
• Experience in curriculum design and instructional material development is preferred.

Responsibilities

• Help students acquire knowledge and skills for personal and societal growth.
• Develop and implement instructional plans aligning with Kentucky’s learning goals.
• Build positive relationships within the school and community.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Curriculum Development

Lesson Planning

Education

Kentucky Teaching Certification

Job description

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Job Summary

To help students acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes that society feels will contribute to their development into mature, able, and responsible men and women.

Job Summary

To help students acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes that society feels will contribute to their development into mature, able, and responsible men and women.

Specific Duties And Performance Responsibilities

• Demonstrates Professional Leadership
• Shall build positive relationships with and between school and community.
• Shall promote leadership potential in colleagues.
• Shall participate in professional organizations and activities4. Shall write and speak effectively.
• Shall contribute to the profession knowledge and expertise about teaching and learning.
• Shall guide the development of curriculum and instructional materials.
• Shall participate in policy design and development at the local school, within professional organizations, and/or within community organizations with educationally related activities.
• Shall initiate and develop educational projects and programs.
  
  

Demonstrates Knowledge of Content

• Shall communicate a breadth of content knowledge across the discipline(s) to be taught.
• Shall communicate a current knowledge of discipline(s) taught.
• Shall demonstrate a general knowledge that allows for integration of ideas and information across the disciplines.
• Shall demonstrate an overall knowledge of one's discipline(s) that allows the teacher to teach to the students' ability levels and learning styles.
• Shall connect content knowledge to real-world applications.
• Shall plan lessons and develop instructional material that reflect knowledge of current constructs and principals of the discipline(s) being taught.
• Shall analyze sources of factual information for accuracy.
• Shall present content in a manner that reflects sensitivity to a multicultural and global perspective.
• Shall collaborate with teachers in other disciplines to analyze and structure cross-disciplinary approaches to instruction.
  
  

Designs/Plan Instruction

• Shall focus instruction on one or more of Kentucky's learning goals and academic expectations.
• Shall develop instruction that requires students to apply knowledge, skills, and thinking processes.
• Shall integrate skills, thinking processes, and content across disciplines.
• Shall create and utilize learning experiences that challenge, motivate and actively involve the learner.
• Shall create and use learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners.
• Shall develop and incorporate strategies that address physical, social, and cultural and that show sensitivity to differences.
• Shall arrange the physical classroom to support the types of teaching and learning that are to occur.
• Shall include creative and appropriate use of technologies (e.g., audiovisual equipment, computers, lab equipment etc.) to improve student learning.
• Shall develop and implement appropriate assessment processes.
• Shall secure and use a variety of appropriate school and community resources to support learning.
• Shall develop and incorporate learning experiences that encourage students to be adaptable, flexible, resourceful and creative.
• Shall use knowledge acquired from past teaching experiences to anticipate instructional challenges
  
  

Appropriate KY Teaching Certification for position required

Salary based on the approved salary schedule by the Newport Board of Education

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Education and Training

• Industries

  Medical Practices

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