Music Teacher

Job Description

Job Title:

Music Teacher
Supervisor:
Instructional Coach

Start Date:

school year

Hours:

School hours. Please see hiring manager for specific arrival and departure times.

Description:

The Music Teacher is responsible for planning, organizing and implementing an appropriate instructional program in a learning environment that guides and encourages students to meet and exceed standards for the grade level/course.
Compensation:
Codman Academy Charter Public School follows a compensation scale based on years of direct experience. 1 year experience starts at $60,000, with 16 years direct experience starting at $110,444 annually.

Responsibilities include (but not limited to):

• Knowledge
  - Demonstrates subject area expertise and a cutting-edge grasp of child development and how students learn.
• Standards
  - Develops a well-honed game plan for the year that is tightly aligned with state standards and assessments.
• Units
  - Plans all expeditions backwards, aligned with high standards, state assessments, and all Bloom's levels; documents and shares all lessons with supervisor at a minimum of two (2) weeks in advance.
• Assessments
  - Plans diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to closely monitor student learning.
• Anticipation
  - Anticipates students' misconceptions and confusions and develops multiple strategies to overcome them.
• Lessons
  - Designs lessons with clear, measurable goals closely aligned with standards and expedition outcomes.
• Engagement
  - Designs highly relevant lessons that will motivate all students and engage them in active learning.
• Materials
  - Designs lessons that use an effective mix of high-quality, multicultural learning materials and technology.
• Differentiation
  - Designs lessons that break down complex tasks and address all learning needs, styles, and interests.
• Environment
  - Artfully uses room arrangement, materials, and displays to maximize student learning of all material, focusing on learning targets and student work.

• Expectations
  - Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing high expectations.
• Relationships
  - Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all students and builds strong relationships.
• Respect
  - Wins all students' respect and creates a climate in which disruption of learning is unthinkable.
• Social-emotional
  - Implements a program that successfully develops positive interactions and social-emotional skills.
• Routines
  - Successfully inculcates class routines up front so that students maintain them throughout the year.
• Responsibility
  - Successfully develops students' self-discipline, self-confidence, and a sense of responsibility.
• Repertoire
  - Has a highly effective discipline repertoire and can capture and hold students' attention any time.
• Efficiency
  - Skillfully uses coherence, momentum, and transitions so that every minute of the classroom time produces learning.
• Prevention
  - Is alert, poised, dynamic, and self-assured and nips virtually all discipline problems in the bud.
• Incentives
  - Gets students to buy into a highly effective system of incentives linked to intrinsic rewards.

• Expectations
  - Exudes high expectations and determination and convinces all students that they will master the material.
• Mindset
  - Actively inculcates a "growth" mindset: take risks, learn from mistakes, through effective effort you can and will achieve at high levels.
• Goals
  - Shows students exactly what's expected by posting learning targets, essential questions, rubrics, and exemplars.
• Connections
  - Hooks all students' interest and makes connections into prior knowledge, experience, and reading.
• Clarity
  - Always presents material clearly and explicitly, with well-chosen examples and vivid and appropriate language.
• Repertoire
  - Orchestrates highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all students.
• Engagement
  - Engages all students in focused work in which they are active learners and problem solvers.
• Differentiation
  - Successfully reaches all students by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding.
• Nimbleness
  - Deftly adapts lessons and units to exploit teachable moments and correct misunderstandings.
• Application
  - Consistently has all students summarize and internalize what they learn and apply it to real-life situations.

• Criteria
  - Posts and reviews clear criteria for proficient work, including rubrics and exemplars, and all students internalize them.
• Diagnosis
  - Gives students a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
• On-the-Spot
  - Continuously uses a variety of effective methods to check for understanding; immediately unscrambles confusion and clarifies.
• Self-Assessment
  - Sets ambitious goals with students, continually self-assesses, and takes responsibility for improving performance.
• Recognition
  - Frequently posts students' work with rubrics and commentary to celebrate progress and motivate direct…