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Performing Arts/Integrated Arts Teacher

Employer
Bridgeport Public Schools
Location
Bridgeport, CT, US
Salary
Competitive
Position Type:
Teaching/Theatre Arts

Date Posted:
7/6/2022

Location:
Dunbar School

Date Available:
To Be Determined

Closing Date:
Open Until Filled

BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
45 Lyon Terrace
Bridgeport, CT 06604

2022-2023 SCHOOL YEAR

PERFORMING ARTS/INTEGRATED ARTS
THEATRE/DANCE/MUSIC TEACHER
Dunbar School

RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Develop and provide an atmosphere where students have the opportunity to fulfill their potential for artistic and intellectual growth.
  • Integrate the arts into the classroom and content areas via dance, music, theatre and/or visual arts in order to support and sustain arts for all students in the PK through 8th grade levels and build sustainability for the pathway to secondary arts programs.
  • Establishes and (as necessary) adjusts instructional goals and objectives, to reflect district/school goals, curriculum policies, and the knowledge, skills, progress, and needs of one's students.
  • Designs lessons that provide opportunities for problem solving, creativity, and communication skills in relation to authentic, real-world problems.
  • Establishes and maintains standards of behavior that foster student self-discipline and positive relationships among students.
  • Commits to on-going professional development in content and cross-curricula pedagogy.
  • Facilitates related performing arts productions and performances
  • Plans learning activities to address individual differences among students
  • Develops, administers, and evaluates quality formatives and summative assessments that reflect a balance of content knowledge, creativity, and problem-solving skills
  • Monitor and evaluate students' progress in relation to district/school curriculum and policies and other planned goals and objectives
  • Encourages, secures, and maintains the involvement of parents and other community members in support of theatre education
  • Involves parents in the assessment of their children's progress and needs
  • Performs all other duties assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Required certification: Music, grades PK-12 (049) or Theatre or Drama, grades PK-12 (458)
    • OR Elementary, 1-6 (305); English, 7-12 (015); English Middle School, 4-8 (215)
      • Certs 305; 015; 215: Must be willing to get Theatre Certification (235, 047, 033, 485 or 483)
  • Master's degree preferred
  • Three years of successful teaching experience in an urban school district preferred
  • Experience in the use of educational technology
  • Excellent oral and written communication and human relations skills.

Qualified candidates who wish to apply should access the Bridgeport Public School's AppliTrack system: https://www.applitrack.com/bridgeport/onlineapp

"The Bridgeport Board of Education is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer."

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