Music Teacher

Education
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Bachelor’s degree and valid Indiana Instrumental Teaching license or eligible to receive a valid Indiana Instrumental Teacher’s license or permit.

Experience:Experience with Marching Band programs, preferred. Professional experience in the employment discipline with professional, technical, and experience requirements. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.

• Assist in the achievement of the short and long-term educational goals of the school corporation.
• Serve as the instructional leader in the classroom.

· Design and conduct learning situations which instruct students in the content of one's respective discipline per the MCS adopted curriculum, course of study and Indiana Academic Standards.

· Stimulate each student to want to live an honest, responsible, fruitful life, instilling within each one a feeling of competency and productivity.

· Encourage students through a positive personal attitude to utilize every opportunity for a constructive learning experience.

· Systematically acquire knowledge about individual students for helping them plan and conduct needed learning experiences.

· Teach students the skills for recognizing fact, opinion, theory, approximation, bias, and propaganda, and for evaluating each in terms of personal value.

· Participate in curricular and program development with principals, supervisors, and department chairpersons for initiating curricular improvements meeting students' needs.

· Assume active participation in in-service programs for professional improvement.

· Observe established policies of the corporation and school; make recommendations for changes in policies when advisable.

· Confer with students and parents at appropriate and set times.

· Sponsor and supervise reasonable extracurricular assignments, chaperon school events, and monitor assigned areas.

· Involve the students and parents, when feasible, in planning, implementing, and evaluating units of study.

· Execute teaching activities in a constructive and meaningful manner.

· Evaluate student progress, issue grades and reports; prepare, record and report class attendance.

· Handle discipline problems within classroom areas, arrange and conduct parent conferences; assist in building discipline and security.

· Supervise paraprofessional, student, and volunteer helpers.

· Perform other duties assigned by the Principal.