Teacher, Theatre/Dance (2026-2027) Bethune Elementary- License renewal posting

Organizational Unit: Bethune Elementary • FTE: 1.0 (full-time, 42 weeks) • Union: Teachers

About the role

Provide quality instruction aligned to state and national standards. Use a variety of assessment strategies—diagnostic, formative, and summative—to inform instructional decisions and increase student self-management of learning. Rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks engage students in deep content of the discipline as well as the habits of scholarship. May be required to work as a member of the campus STEM team to ensure quality integrated instruction across disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Implement the Minnesota State Standards and District Graduation Requirements; apply knowledge of subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, and students’ learning styles and needs.
• Teach required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning, and problem solving.
• Collaborate with peers to develop, plan, and implement best practices based on student needs and abilities.
• Assess students’ developmental, cognitive, and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction.
• Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful, interesting, multicultural, gender and ability fair, and developmentally appropriate.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with families to make educational decisions and use community resources to support learning.
• Support and work toward the goals of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals.
• Assess instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDP) and participate in ongoing professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university.
• Prior successful experience student teaching or teaching in an urban, multicultural education setting.
• Demonstrated continued professional development through course work, research, peer collaboration, and/or job-embedded staff development.
• Valid Minnesota teaching license in K-12 Theater Arts/Dance or Theater Arts; or proof of pending approved licensure.

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD preferred.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• HSA & FSA
• Retirement plan

Pay

$55,796–$116,593