Enrichment Teacher/Specialist (Music, Dance, Movement or Theater Arts) 2024
Academy for Integrated Arts
- Kansas City, MO
- $50,000 per year
- Permanent
- Part-time
- Demonstrate a commitment to teaching students who are traditionally underserved
- Value the power of school in changing and improving children’s lives by constructing student-centered learning opportunities
- Demonstrate a commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, and an ability to create a classroom environment in which all students and community members feel a sense of belonging
- Have a strong understanding of and ability to implement constructivism
- Value the presence and the voice of students’ families as partners in the school
- Engage in powerful, productive partnerships with families and students to ensure that instruction meets the needs of all students
- Plan, prepare and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate active, student-centered learning.
- Demonstrate an understanding and ability to implement inquiry-based, project learning
- Design appropriately demanding instructional materials
- Facilitate a student-centered classroom in which students students set goals and engage in deep thinking throughout the lesson
- Design assessments and use data to inform instruction and planning
- Build a positive classroom community and effectively manage student behaviors
- Invest in students’ well-being and build productive, positive relationships with students and their families
- Develop a vision for student success and carry-out that vision through high-quality instruction
- Provide appropriate timely feedback to students and their families
- Maintain accurate documentation of students’ progress and development utilizing established systems
- Collaborate with colleagues and families in meeting needs of all students
- Have excellent communication skills
- Be able to work collaboratively with others in a team environment
- Be a reflective practitioner with a strong personal commitment to ongoing learning and growth
- Be willing to grow in the ability to implement the arts throughout the curriculum
- Collaborate with the art/music teachers and community partners to integrate arts across the curriculum
- Demonstrate ethical behavior, including understanding the importance of confidentiality of information about students and teachers in the school environment and community
- Embrace feedback and participate in continual, intensive job-embedded professional development
- Demonstrate an excellent work ethic, flexibility and positive attitude
- Bachelor’s degree
- Hold or be eligible to hold the appropriate certification (Music, Speech & Theater, Drama, Theater Arts, Early Childhood or Elementary Missouri Certification)
- Starting salary for certified, first year teachers: $50,000
- Benefits package including medical benefits
- Kansas City Public School Retirement System
- Ongoing, intensive, job-embedded professional development
- Unique opportunities to engage in team teaching and specific professional learning such as arts integrated professional development
Application Deadline: The position will remain open until filled.
To Apply: Submit resume or curriculum vitae, brief cover letter and 3 references via Bamboo HRQuestions about the position can be directed to the Executive Director, Tricia DeGraff at tricia.degraff@afiakc.org.