Districtwide Certified Music Teacher

Position Responsibilities and Expectations:
Implementing and delivering a music curriculum, teaching and learning standards and practices that are aligned with Common Core Standards, and embedding strategies to support and engage ELL and SwD. Design creative activities to allow students to experience different musical styles, interpret musical scores, and compose their own music.
Introduce individual students to particular instruments and assess students' needs in regard to instrumental training.
Incorporates students' backgrounds and experiences to improve performance and enhance instruction. Uses a variety of techniques to ensure content concepts are comprehensible and advance students' music skills and understanding.
Develop and implement classroom and curricular accommodations and modifications for all students, including language development adaptations for ELLs.
Ability to identify new approaches and strategies to learning and teaching that stimulate critical thinking and problem-solving techniques. Provides instructional support to help scaffold language and content domains to deliver rich, authentic music instructions for all students.
Uses various assessment information to plan instruction and set all academic goals, plans, activities, and actions on what is in the best interest of each student.
Cultivates a stewardship of collaborative learning and leadership in and out of the classroom, distributing knowledge and expertise in a skillful way that empowers and supports others. Consistently practice a growth mindset, demonstrating a strong class culture and using feedback to reflect and set goals.
Fulfills high academic standards and shares expertise constantly with support personnel, colleagues, and staff to ensure that all student academic and social/emotional needs are met and regularly provided; specifically, collaborating with special education and ELL colleagues to provide accommodations outlined in a student's IEP when needed and collaborating with staff to align curriculum with Common Core and Wida Standards.
Ability to understand, analyze, and evaluate information and make connections among multiple factors, data points, ideas, learning styles, personalities, and potential solutions to make the best decision possible. Incorporate a student's background in the lesson plan and understand how to make connections with prior native language development linguistically.
Sets and pursues meaningful goals based on educational best practices and focused on improving student/stakeholder outcomes at all times.
Consistently demonstrates a belief that the individual is capable of learning and growth; learns from reflection and feedback and actively assesses own knowledge, skills, and talent deficits; and makes a concerted effort to close gaps. Empower students to become self-motivated, responsible, and resilient learners.
Maintains a positive and engaging learning environment that promotes the academic, social, and personal well-being of all students.
Ensure that practices enable students, staff, and parents to interact effectively in a culturally diverse environment in which ALL backgrounds, identities, customs, and traits are respected and built into the learning process. Demonstrates ethical behavior, expectations, and a genuine concern for others under all circumstances; models what is expected of others. Completes all tasks, reports, and all necessary requirements associated with teaching a class in a timely manner.
Effectively communicates with families regularly via phone calls, emails, and written correspondence to discuss student performance, attendance, progress, etc.
Such other duties as deemed necessary by the building administrator.