ESY : Teaching Artist | SALA; Summer Arts Learning Academy

SUMMMER ARTS FOR LEARNING ACADEMY (SALA)

ESY TEACHING ARTIST

Reports to:

ESY Site Director, Summer Arts for Learning Academy

Baltimore City Schools’ Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA) ESY program, operated by Arts for Learning Maryland, offers students an opportunity to imagine, create, and express who they are through the arts. This is a full-day, five-week program (Monday - Thursday) that introduces students to an artist integrated program. Teaching artists, teachers and para educators will work together to offer ESY students an opportunity to engage in a program that integrates an artist into the ESY classrooms we serve.

ESY students have a wide variety of ability levels and needs for accommodation, so the ideal candidate will have experience with a variety of special education populations and/or a willingness to adapt as needed. Arts for Learning Maryland will host 10 Academy sites throughout the city, locations TBD.

The mission of Arts for Learning Maryland’s Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA) is to provide students with an opportunity to spend summer learning from the best Teachers and Teaching Artists our state has to offer. Through a dynamic, creative, and supportive environment, students will explore math and literacy in a unique arts-integrated environment that allows them to develop socially and emotionally, expands their personal creative process, introduces them to different art forms taught by professional Artists, and allows them to experience math and literacy content from a different lens.

We believe unwaveringly that ALL students can achieve high standards in and through the arts. Provide opportunities for students to develop powerfully articulate voices through art forms and honor their creative processes along the way. Create safe, brave learning environments for students to grow, make mistakes, and contribute to the community. Collaborate and reflect by learning from and with each other at every step of the process, cultivating positive relationships between all ages.

Encourage the development of critical thinking, problem-solving, inquiry, imagination, and creativity, and provide multiple ways for students to demonstrate knowledge and mastery. Learn about, honor, and leverage the cultural knowledge, experiences, and frames of reference of our students and community to make learning more relevant and effective. Ensure that our students are known, loved, supported, celebrated, and valued.

The Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA) ESY Teaching Artist is the heart and soul of the Academy. Teaching Artists are paired with an ESY Classroom Teacher and Para educator for the entire program (Monday - Thursday). These pairs are responsible for delivering engaging, meaningful, and joyful artist-integrated instruction both in and through the arts daily. This teaching artist will assist in meeting a student’s needs which result from their different abilities.

Their main goal is to enable all students to be involved in and thrive in the entirety of our program. An ESY teaching artist can provide support to our ESY students in many ways such as community building, instructional support, assisting with activities of daily living, and/or fostering and developing a student’s social skills. In this specialized role the emphasis is on the journey- not in the output.

We believe educators are able to build stronger relationships with students when they are able to give them the personalized attention they need. For additional information on SALA ESY please view the following link:
Extended School Year (ESY) & SALA.

• Demonstrable expertise in an art form, and ability to present artistic samples.
• Experience working collaboratively and adopting/developing a co-teaching model with academic Teachers.
• An ability to attend and engage in all required training and program dates.
• A willingness to be flexible in service to our SALA ESY community.
• An ability to create inclusive environments where all students’ unique gifts and talents are discovered and cultivated, and where…