Art Teacher

Vance County Schools • Henderson, NC

5d • Onsite

About The Position

Vance County High School is seeking an art teacher to instruct beginning and developing art students, primarily in grades 9 and 10. The ideal candidate will possess experience across various art media and styles suitable for high school students. This role is responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting instruction and learning environments that foster students' educational and social development.

Requirements

• Degree in education or a related area qualifying for licensure by the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction.
• Experience in a variety of art media and styles appropriate for high school students.
• Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students.
• Ability to motivate students.
• Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment.
• Ability to perform general clerical duties.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom.
• Ability to operate common office machines.
• Ability to maintain basic files and records.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs.
• Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Physical requirements are consistent with Light Work (due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking).
• Data Conception: Ability to compare and/or judge the characteristics of data, people or things.
• Interpersonal Communication: Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information, including receiving instructions.
• Language Ability: Ability to read various documents and prepare correspondence, reports, and instructional materials.
• Intelligence: Ability to apply logical/scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions; interpret technical instructions; and deal with abstract and concrete variables.
• Verbal Aptitude: Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, and follow instructions; communicate effectively in various professional languages.
• Numerical Aptitude: Ability to utilize mathematical formulas, perform calculations, and apply principles of statistics.
• Form/Spatial Aptitude: Ability to inspect items for proper dimensions.
• Motor Coordination: Ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.
• Manual Dexterity: Ability to handle office equipment and hand tools with minimal eye/hand/foot coordination.
• Color Discrimination: Ability to differentiate between colors and shades.
• Interpersonal Temperament: Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions; adaptable to stress and emergency situations.
• Physical Communication: Ability to talk and hear; communicate via telephone.

Nice To Haves

• Experience as an art teacher.
• A degree.

Responsibilities

• Management of Instructional Time: Ensure materials, supplies, and equipment are ready for each lesson, start classes quickly, get students on task promptly, and maintain a high level of student engagement.
• Management of Student Behavior: Establish and enforce clear rules and procedures for routine matters, student participation, classroom movement, and monitor/address inappropriate behavior promptly and consistently while maintaining student dignity.
• Instructional Presentation: Begin lessons with a review, introduce objectives, speak fluently and precisely, use understandable concepts and language, provide relevant examples and demonstrations, assign tasks with a high success rate, ask appropriate questions, maintain a brisk pace while adjusting for understanding, transition smoothly between activities, clarify assignments, and summarize key points.
• Instructional Monitoring of Student Performance: Maintain clear, firm, and reasonable work standards and due dates, circulate to check student performance during class work, use various assessment methods to track progress, and pose questions clearly.
• Instructional Feedback: Provide feedback on in-class work to encourage growth, offer prompt feedback on out-of-class assignments, affirm correct responses, and provide sustaining feedback after incorrect responses by probing or offering assistance.
• Facilitating Instruction: Develop an instructional plan aligned with school and system-wide curricular goals, use diagnostic information to revise objectives and tasks, maintain accurate student performance records, align objectives, strategies, assessments, and student needs, and utilize available resources.
• Interacting Within the Educational Environment: Treat all students fairly and equitably, and interact effectively with students, colleagues, parents, and the community.
• Performing Non-Instructional Duties: Carry out assigned non-instructional duties, adhere to established laws and policies, and engage in professional development to demonstrate growth.
• Perform other related work as required.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Associate degree