Visual Arts Teacher/ Audubon Gentilly

Title: Visual Art Teacher

Purpose of Position: To provide an engaging and enriching educational experience for students

Employment Status: Full-time Reporting

Reports to: Principal

Location: Audubon Charter School Broadway or Milan campus

Essential Functions:

Position Overview The 4th-8th Grade Visual Arts Teacher has responsibility for designing significant learning experience in studio art, art history, and art appreciation for select elementary grades. He or she is expected to understand and demonstrate effective student instruction and assessment to maximize educational achievement for all students, and to work collaboratively to ensure a working and learning climate for all students that is safe, secure, and respectful.

The Visual Arts Teacher’s essential duties and responsibilities are as follows:

• Demonstrating an understanding and mastery of central concepts, tools of inquiry, and structure of the visual arts, effectively transmitting this knowledge to students, and making the subject matter meaningful to students
• Demonstrating an understanding of and commitment to classical education and the vision, mission, and philosophy of the school; and consistently developing, fostering, and advancing our core virtues in students
• Developing a climate and culture of openness, fairness, mutual respect, kindness, support and inquiry
• Engaging every student in grade level appropriate learning experiences that promote artistic, intellectual, and moral development
• Listening and interacting effectively with students, parents, colleagues, leadership, and community members to support student learning and well-being
• Demonstrating respect for students, colleagues, administrators, and parents
• Modeling and reinforcing good judgment, prudence, virtue, self-discipline and responsibility
• Working effectively with school colleagues, parents, and the community to support students’ learning and well-being
• Using formal and informal assessment strategies to determine whether students have achieved high standards and modifying instructional strategies as needed to maximize achievement
• Establishing and maintaining a safe and secure classroom environment.
• Managing student misconduct promptly and resolving conflict and crises effectively
• Maintaining a professional development plan and engaging in professional development activities
• Managing resources necessary to achieve classroom and school goals
• Using classroom processes that support effective teaching and learning to promote high student achievement, designing lessons to promote all students’ being engaged in learning all the time through such strategies as active learning, hands-on application, and teacher-student discussions
• Using appropriate technology in teaching and learning processes
• Performing other related duties as required

Qualifications

The Middle School Art Teacher shall be a person who is well-organized, well-rounded, engaging, and who has the ability to interact joyfully with students, parents, and colleagues. Additionally, strong candidates will possess:

• Ability to exercise excellent judgment and prudent decision making
• Bachelor’s degree with preference in art education, or a related fine arts or design discipline
• Louisiana teacher license in art education preferred
• A minimum of two (2) years of experience working with school-age children, preferably as a classroom teacher; preference is for five or more years of experience as a classroom art educator

Send resumes to pbobzien@auduboncharter.org