Performing Arts Electives Teacher

Title: Performing Arts Electives Teacher

Location: West Chester United States

Job Description:

About This Role:

Laurel Springs School is looking for an experienced, energetic, flexible, passionate Performing Arts educator who loves working with grades 6-12 students and is highly skilled with learning strategies that support learners in an online environment. Ideal candidates will have experience working with orchestras, concert bands, jazz ensembles, choirs, theatre groups, music production, and songwriting. Additional experience teaching elementary performing arts is a plus. The Electives Program at Laurel Springs provides asynchronous instruction with frequent opportunities for live virtual interactions during daily office hours and engagement in our online learning community. Excellent communication and relationship-building skills are essential as the ideal candidate will be excited to be enmeshed in our lively LSS culture that celebrates the arts throughout the year through the facilitation of clubs, honor societies, and school-wide events. This educator must be highly collaborative since they will work closely with other LSS teachers and staff in order to cultivate an exciting and enriching learning environment for our students. This is a full-time, 12-month remote position that requires educators to be available during business hours (Eastern Time) to perform grading/feedback, support students, engage with curriculum project work, share creative strategies to grow programming and attend meetings, office hours, and individual student appointments.

Job Duties:

Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Advance the mission of the school by providing high-quality, positive, proactive asynchronous, and synchronous student learning through the LSS online learning management system and other learning platforms.
• Actively monitor the academic progress of each assigned student and intervene as needed to ensure mastery and timely completion of enrollments.
• Provide substantive, motivating, personalized, timely, and constructive feedback for all student assignments.
• Support the curriculum team with content creation and course reviews as assigned.
• Communicate proactively and responsively with students, parents, counselors, staff, and administrators via email, phone, video conference, and any other communication tools provided by LSS.
• Be readily and proactively accessible to students and parents via virtual office hours, individual live instruction and appointments, and parent-teacher conferences.
• Teach Workshop courses (asynchronous courses with weekly live lessons) as assigned.
• Participate collaboratively and professionally in school-wide meetings, events, communications and activities, both online and in person, with some required evening virtual events.
• Engage in ongoing professional development (internal and external), practice self-assessment, and strive for continuous improvement.
• Maintain confidentiality regarding students, families, and staff as well as LSS management and operations.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Education/Credentials:

• Bachelor's degree in applicable field required; Master's degree strongly preferred
• Active education certification and commitment to ongoing compliance with state and local regulations relating to background checks and credentials.
• Demonstrated experience in 6-12 teaching; experience in online learning, asynchronous learning, and/or blended learning strongly preferred.

Essential Skills:

• Excellent skills with word processing, productivity, communication, and educational technology tools; expertise with G-Suite, Learning Management Systems, and Student Information Systems strongly preferred.
• Strong analytical, interpretive, evaluative, and constructive thinking and organizational skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Access to dependable and high-quality internet and a quiet workspace that allows the Student Support Manager to be fully present and available to students, parents, and colleagues as needed during work hours (Monday through Friday from 8:30am - 5pm ET).

The information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Individuals may perform other duties as assigned including work in other areas to cover absences or relief to equalize peak work periods or otherwise balance the workload.