Music Teacher

Teacher Position

The purpose of a teacher's job is to teach students to read, write, problem solve, compute, how to find information, how to think, how to work cooperatively with others, and to meet all district-required curriculum objectives.

Essential Functions:

• Plans and implements a program of study that meets individual needs, interests, and abilities within the Sweetwater County School District Number One curriculum.
• Implements curriculum objectives and goals using effective teaching techniques and materials.
• Develops, in a cooperative manner with the principal and curriculum facilitators, a plan for the improvement and enrichment of instruction.
• Writes weekly lesson plans describing daily learning experiences correlated to curriculum objectives.
• Monitors and assesses student progress and provides feedback on a regular basis to students and parents/guardians.
• Diagnoses, instructs, and evaluates specific students' needs and seeks assistance of specialists as needed.
• Communicates aims/objectives to students in a well-planned, organized manner in clear, concise terms.
• Creates a classroom environment conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity of the students.
• Assists administration in implementing all policies, vision, mission, philosophy, regulations, and rules of Sweetwater County School District Number One.
• Creates educational experiences to provide students with opportunities to develop potential in self-esteem, personal-social adjustment, decision-making, and other life skills.
• Respects the dignity of each student as an individual and attempts to gain an adequate understanding of his/her needs, interests, abilities, aptitudes, temperament, and environmental influences, as a basis on which to meet his/her needs, and to treat him/her with fairness and courtesy.
• Communicates concerns and ideas with colleagues, parents, students, and community in a positive, solution-oriented manner.
• Assumes legal responsibilities for the discipline and supervision of students in the classroom, on school property, or in attendance at school-sponsored activities at all times and maintains a high standard of conduct and good rapport with students.
• Strives to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Assumes professional and personal responsibility for the management and progress of classes under his/her authority, direction, and supervision.
• Assumes individual responsibilities assigned by principal/supervisor which may relate to committee work, student activities, student supervision, or other planning and professional assignments.
• Maintains accurate, complete, legible, and correct records as required by law, Sweetwater County School District Number One policy, and administrative regulation.
• Takes necessary precautions to protect students, equipment, materials, and facilities.
• Conducts oneself in a business-like and task-oriented manner.
• Strives to be a good employee as well as an effective teacher.
• Seeks to establish friendly and cooperative relationships between the home and the school.
• Provides parents with information that will serve the best interests of their children and is discreet with information received from parents.

Other Functions:

• Attends and supervises curriculum oriented field trips.
• Attends parent and staff meetings.
• Keeps informed by reading building and district communications.
• Responds to requests for information in a timely manner.

Job Qualifications:

Knowledge, Skills and Mental Ability:

• Possess a broad general knowledge of all subject areas with specific knowledge needed in contract areas.
• Possess group dynamics and interpersonal skills.
• Possess knowledge of psychological, emotional, and educational behavioral development of children.
• Possess classroom management skills which include discipline as well as record keeping.
• Possess technological and computer skills.
• Possess problem solving, imagination, patience, reasoning, creativity, judgment, and analytical abilities.
• Possess a knowledge of music theory and music application.

Education, License, Certification or Formal Training:

• Possess all certificates required for the State of Wyoming.
• Possess at a minimum a Bachelor's Degree.
• Continue to pursue graduate…