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.
- 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)
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
Role-Specific Competencies
- A passion for music
- Strong vocal skills, vocal modeling and deep understanding of vocal technique for Middle School voices
- Basic (minimum) piano skills for rehearsal accompaniment
- Conducting skills
- Experience with or sound knowledge of NCAS arts standards and willingness to adapt curriculum
- Kodaly background preferred
- Experience using music technology like Garageband, Sibelius, Smartmusic
- Provide opportunities for AMIS festival experiences
- Be part of the directorial team for the SAS MS Musical bi-annually
- Plan, prepare, co-teach and/or collaborate with secondary Performing Arts departments on courses, performances, concerts, and/or opportunities for sharing learning with an audience.
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”).
