Part Time Teaching Assistant - Visual Arts

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- Visual Arts

Trinity School is searching for a Lower School Visual Arts Teaching Assistant for grades 4 and 5 for the  school year. Teaching assistants work closely with the visual arts teacher to plan and deliver a Christian education. Assistants provide supervision, support, and training of individual or groups of students within the regular educational setting, and they assist with daily preparation, instruction, activities, and clean‑up of materials as determined by the classroom teacher.

Assistants are expected to exercise effective classroom management skills and to seek to establish a caring and supportive environment for pupils on a daily basis. Maintaining a safe learning environment for all students and communicating daily with the classroom teacher are important contributions of Trinity teacher assistants.

• Serve as a role model of Christian faith and action; interact with students, family, and staff in a manner consistent with Biblical values.
• Be present in the classroom no later than 15 minutes before students arrive and leave the classroom 30 minutes after the students depart.
• Attend planned school functions, such as in‑services and teacher workdays required for other teaching staff. Assistants are not required to attend teacher workdays but should attend new teacher training. Faculty meetings are not required but strongly encouraged.
• Support a vibrant classroom culture of visual art learning.
• Assist the teacher with preparation, instruction, and clean‑up of materials and activities daily.
• Oversee small group activities that require expertise in the teaching of visual arts.
• Encourage students to be involved in visual arts activities in and out of school.
• Cultivate a passion within students for creating art.
• Attend training for Lower School faculty that focuses on the “how” of the instructional particulars of the Trinity mission.
• Participate in the teaching of the “how to be a student” habits that include classroom management practices.
• Help assess and evaluate each student’s progress daily and quarterly.
• Interact with children in ways appropriate to child growth and development.
• Carry out supervisory teacher duties in a prompt and reasonable manner when necessary, as agreed on with the teacher.
• Provide technical assistance to the teacher: e.g., filing, recording, and copying.
• Be supportive of Trinity School on campus and in the community as well as being loyal and complimentary of administration, staff, and fellow colleagues.
• Arrange for a substitute assistant and all details when the assistant must be absent.
• Communicate all relevant concerns about students to the teacher.

Trinity is a highly missional school, and an understanding of and commitment to the school's mission is essential: to educate students in transitional kindergarten to grade twelve within the framework of Christian faith and conviction—teaching the classical tools of learning; providing a rich yet unhurried education; and communicating truth, goodness and beauty.
Located in Durham, North Carolina, Trinity School is a Christian School that values both a rich Christian faith (faculty embrace doctrinal commitments described on Trinity's website) and vibrant academic excellence.

To be considered, qualified candidates should attach a cover letter, resume, and any other supporting documents, such as college transcripts and certifications, to their Trinity application.