Theatre Teacher

Waltham Public School District

High School Theater Educator

Job Details

Title:

High School Theater Educator

Description:

High School Theater Eductaor with Advanced Dance Instruction

Position Type:
Full-Time

Location:

Waltham High School

Position Overview

Waltham Public Schools is seeking a dynamic, creative, and student-centered High School Theater Educator to join the Fine and Performing Arts Department at Waltham High School. The successful candidate will provide standards-based theater instruction that centers student voice, storytelling, collaboration, cultural expression, artistic risk-taking, and personal growth. The position also includes teaching some advanced-level dance courses.

This position is designed for an educator who understands theater as a powerful form of communication, identity, creative expression, and community-building. The ideal candidate will support students in using performance, movement, writing, design, and production to explore stories about themselves, their communities, their experiences, and the world around them.

The theater program values the full creative process-not only the final performance. Students should develop foundational and advanced skills in acting, improvisation, directing, play writing, ensemble-building, technical theater, theatrical design, analysis, reflection, and production. The heart of the program is helping students create, interpret, revise, perform, and communicate meaning through theater.

The successful candidate will also teach advanced dance classes and should be prepared to support experienced dance students in developing technique, performance quality, choreography, movement composition, artistic voice, and reflective practice.

The ideal candidate is an enthusiastic, collaborative, and equity-oriented educator who is excited to work with a diverse high school student population, including students with disabilities and English Learners. The teacher will help create welcoming theater and dance classrooms where students of varied backgrounds and experience levels can participate fully, take creative risks, develop confidence, and see their identities and stories reflected in the work.

Responsibilities

* Plan and deliver engaging, standards-based theater instruction for high school students.

* Teach acting, improvisation, ensemble-building, character development, voice and movement, directing, play writing, script analysis, theatrical design, technical theater, production, and reflection.

* Teach advanced-level dance courses that develop movement technique, performance quality, choreography, improvisation, composition, body awareness, and artistic interpretation.

* Support students in using theater, performance, and movement to explore personal stories, cultural experiences, identity, community, and social themes.

* Create positive, inclusive, and well-managed classroom environments where students feel physically and emotionally safe taking creative risks.

* Design learning experiences that prioritize student voice, choice, collaboration, original work, and artistic decision-making.

* Differentiate instruction for students with a wide range of theater and dance experience, learning needs, language backgrounds, identities, and comfort levels with performance.

* Teach theater traditions, dramatic literature, performance practices, dance forms, and movement styles from a range of cultures and perspectives.

* Select scripts, scenes, movement material, and other instructional resources that reflect diverse cultures, identities, voices, and lived experiences.

* Guide students through the creative process, including brainstorming, research, exploration, rehearsal, revision, performance, feedback, and reflection.

* Support students in creating original scenes, monologues, plays, devised theater pieces, choreography, and interdisciplinary performance work.

* Develop students' confidence, creativity, collaboration, communication, physical awareness, empathy, and artistic independence.

* Provide clear, constructive feedback that supports technical development, creative growth, revision, and reflection.

* Assess student progress using performance-based, process-based,…