Grammar School Art Teacher
About The Position
Grammar School Art Teacher (K - 7th Grade) at The Ecclesial Schools, a growing network of neighborhood schools in metro Orlando. The school offers a classical curriculum and formative Christian practices to children from diverse economic backgrounds. They provide dedicated training and support from academic coaches, competitive salary, and benefits. They are looking for skilled, joyful, and dedicated educators to join their faculty. The role involves bringing the mission and vision to life by preparing engaging lessons, cultivating a rich classroom atmosphere, building relationships with students and parents, and committing to professional growth. Teachers focus on cultivating children's moral imagination and teaching liberal arts, awakening wonder, and forming habits of heart and mind. They care deeply about students' spiritual formation and are missional about shaping hearts and minds. Teachers attend morning prayer with students and affirm the school's Statement of Faith, being actively involved in their church and Christian community.
Requirements
- Demonstrate a genuine love for God, children, and for learning.
- Hold a BA or higher degree.
- Bring 3-5 years of experience, ideally within a classical Christian school.
- Have explored our website and resonate deeply with our christian faith, mission and vision.
- Have prayerfully considered this opportunity and are ready to learn more about how we are removing financial barriers to excellent Christian education.
Nice To Haves
- Ideally within a classical Christian school.
Responsibilities
- Prepare engaging lessons and learning activities.
- Cultivate a rich classroom atmosphere.
- Build relationships with students and their parents.
- Commit to growing professionally as part of a faculty of friends.
- Focus instructional time on cultivating the soil of children’s moral imagination.
- Teach the liberal arts of math and language.
- Awaken children’s wonder and help them form the habits of heart and mind that will ultimately grow into wisdom and virtue.
- Care deeply about their students' spiritual formation and are missional about shaping and forming hearts and minds.
- Attend morning prayer each morning with their students.
- Affirm the Statement of Faith and are actively involved in their church and Christian community.
Benefits
- Paid in-service training from experienced academic leaders during onboarding, orientation, and inservice training before the start of school.
- Support from academic coaches.
- Teachers are well prepared and supported.
- Training to invest most of their precious time in planning great lessons.
- Structures and activities that foster collegiality and collaboration.
- On grade-level or curricular area teams that meet across campuses.
- Teachers work on projects that matter both for their own practice and professional growth, but also for the growth of the academic mission of The Ecclesial Schools.
- Employed by leadership that creates margins in teaching schedules and limits programming outside of school hours.
- Teach without excessive administrative tasks that distract teachers from preparing rich and engaging lessons.
- Opportunities for growth within our organization.
- Missional work and a positive work environment.
- Competitive salary that tracks with the pay scale of local public schools.
- Support from dedicated and skilled school leaders and academic coaches.
- Paid medical benefits (approximately 90% for the employee).
- Access to supplemental coverages.
- Matching retirement.
- Professional development.
- Opportunity for advancement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
