Classroom Teacher / Music

Job Description:

Posting P-25-20 Date: April 19, 2024

POSITION VACANCY SECONDARY MUSIC TEACHER

Our district and its community recognize the critical component that music instruction plays in the success of students academically, socially, and emotionally. Our award-winning students are excellent ambassadors of what our music program is K-12.

Our High School program boasts:

• All-State musician honors every year.

• Among the largest marching bands in the Commonwealth.

• Silvertones (select chorus) regularly tour Italy performing works originally written for those acoustics.

• Cantata performs in the Earth Mass at St. John the Divine Cathedral in New York City annually.

• Above-average percentage of students engaged in private lessons.

• Opportunity for Choral performances accompanied by full band or full orchestra.

• 40% of High School participation in music ensembles.

• We offer a wide variety of music electives to high school students of all ability levels and backgrounds.

• Theory and Composition Electives: Exploring Software and Composition, Rock and Popular Music Composition, Jazz Workshop, Advanced Theory and Composition, and AP Music Theory

• Instrumental and Vocal Electives: Instrumental Music, Advanced Instrumental Music, Vocal Music, Theatre Workshop, and Introduction to Guitar

• Music, Culture and Politics Courses: Music in Politics and Social Change, and The Social, Political and Cultural Evolution of Popular Music in Film

Our Middle School program boasts:

• 50%+ Middle school participation in music ensembles.

• General Music for the entire Middle School student population in addition to performing ensembles.

• Performing ensembles receive superior ratings at the annual "High Note" Festival.

• SHMS has a vibrant jazz program, with our traveling "Ellington Jazz Band" regularly receiving superior ratings at surrounding Jazz Fests in Delaware County and beyond.

• Spring Musical represents a significant percentage of the total student population.

• Select Chorus "Cantabile" performs throughout the area at community events.

• Diverse performance opportunities both in school and in community; Jazz/Modern Band programs at "Dining Under the Stars" performance.

Our programs K-12 exemplars include:

• WSSD Students regularly perform in area honor ensembles.

• Keystone State Boys Choir

• Delaware County Youth Orchestra

• Young Musicians' Orchestra

• Liberty Winds

• Philadelphia Youth Orchestra

In Wallingford-Swarthmore, music is a year-round activity. Our Summer Program is an optional teaching opportunity for our instructors. It is a month-long program with WSSD and non-WSSD participants with a final performance at the end of the program.

Qualifications:

• Ability to continue to grow an already exceptional vocal and instrumental program.

• Strings expertise

• Valid Pennsylvania K-12 Music Certification

• A proven record of success in an established program or evidence of growing a program in a K-12 environment.

Benefits:

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Excellent Medical, Prescription, Vision, and Dental benefits

• Paid sick leave.

• Excellent pension system

• Highly competitive pay

External Applicants:

Apply for position by completing application by MAY 3, 2024 at https://wallingford.tedk12.com/hire/index.aspx