Music Instructor

Job Summary

We are seeking a dedicated and nurturing primary classroom teacher to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for creating a supportive and engaging learning environment where students feel empowered to explore, grow, and succeed. You will design and implement creative lesson plans that meet diverse learning needs while fostering a lifelong love of learning.

Performance Responsibilities

• Present a positive image of the school to parents, and convey to them the school's genuine concern with education, growth, and development of each student
• Seek to establish friendly and cooperative partnerships between home and school
• Work to develop a positive public relationship between the school district and the community
• Carry out assignments in a timely manner without undue checking
• React positively to directives
• Have a willingness to cooperate with the superintendent, district administrators, principals, and staff
• Maintain the confidentiality, both verbally and in written form, of each student's educational record
• Strive to maintain and improve professional competence
• Take necessary precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities
• Adequately adhere to School Board of Education Policies and Procedures

Specific Duties And Performance Responsibilities

• Build positive relationships with and between school and community
• Promote leadership potential in colleagues
• Participate in professional organizations and activities
• Write and speak effectively
• Contribute to the professional knowledge and expertise about teaching and learning
• Guide the development of curriculum and instructional materials
• Initiate and develop educational projects and programs
• Show listening, conflict resolution, and group-facilitation skills as a team member

Demonstrates Knowledge of Content

• Communicate a breadth of content knowledge across the discipline(s) to be taught
• Communicate a current knowledge of discipline(s) taught
• Demonstrate a general knowledge that allows for integration of ideas and information across the disciplines
• Demonstrate an overall knowledge of one's discipline(s) that allows the teacher to teach to the students' ability levels and learning styles
• Connect content knowledge to real-world applications
• Plan lessons and develop instructional material that reflect knowledge of current constructs and principals of the discipline(s) being taught
• Analyze sources of factual information for accuracy
• Present content in a manner that reflects sensitivity to a multicultural and global perspective
• Collaborate with teachers in other disciplines to analyze and structure cross-disciplinary approaches to instruction
• Focus instruction on one or more of KY's learning goals and academic expectations
• Develop instruction that requires students to apply knowledge, skills, and thinking processes
• Create and utilize learning experiences that challenge, motivate and actively involve the learner
• Create and use learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners
• Develop and incorporate strategies that address physical, social, and cultural differences
• Develop and implement appropriate assessment processes
• Secure and use a variety of appropriate school and community resources to support learning
• Create and incorporate learning experiences that encourage students to be adaptive, flexible, resourceful and creative
• Communicate with and challenge students in a supportive manner and provide students with constructive feedback
• Use a variety of classroom management techniques that foster individual responsibility and cooperation
• Work with colleagues to develop an effective learning climate within the school
• Communicate specific goals and high expectations for learning
• Model the skills, concepts, attributes, and thinking processes to be learning
• Provide opportunities for students to increase their knowledge of cultural similarities and differences
• Stimulate students to reflect on their own ideas and those of others
• Use appropriate questioning strategies to help students solve problems and think critically
• Make effective use of media and technologies
• Provide opportunities to use and practice what is learned

Qualifications

• KY teaching certification for teaching Music - All Grades

Salary

Salary is based on rank and experience per the adopted salary schedule for the 26/27 SY