Elementary Art Teacher

Role Overview 

Elementary Art teachers prepare curriculum and provide instruction in art for students in elementary school. They plan age-appropriate activities for children and evaluate student performance and progress. They work in collaborative teams and are responsible for providing an engaging, inquiry-based program to scholars. Our teachers create a safe, structured, and joyful learning community that fosters excellence, collaboration, and innovation. Teachers at AISJ are outcome-oriented, hardworking, and receptive to feedback, putting in the time necessary to ensure scholars meet AISJ’s high expectations for learning.

Job Responsibilities

Planning and Preparation for Learning

·        Plan lessons and units by following the AISJ curriculum framework in collaboration with the other grade level teachers

·        Supports in developing curriculum documentation that reflect horizontal and vertical alignment

·        Demonstrates planning with consideration of differentiation needs, scholar engagement, and anticipates scholars’ misconceptions and confusions

·        Demonstrates a plan for summative and formative assessments to monitor scholar learning

·        Demonstrates content knowledge in the areas of reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and social emotional learning.        

·        Selects books and art supplies for courses. Demonstrates method and procedure to pupils.

·        Accompanies students on field trips to museums or art galleries.

·        Accompanies students on field trips to museums or art galleries.

·        Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive community displays such as bulletin boards, interest centers, art gallery, art walk, etc.

Classroom Management

·        Is direct, specific, consistent, and tenacious in communicating and enforcing very high expectations.

·        Shows warmth, caring, respect, and fairness for all scholars and builds strong relationships.

Delivery of Instruction

• Promotes scholar-centered learning through highly effective strategies, materials, and groupings to involve and motivate all scholars
• Promotes inquiry-based and concept-based learning
• Supports scholars with understanding of their strengths and opportunities for development, setting their goals, and action planning
• Promotes agency among scholars including voice, choice, and ownership
• Successfully reaches all scholars by skillfully differentiating and scaffolding

Monitoring Assessment & Follow-up

• Frequently checks for understanding, adjusting teaching, re-teaching and following-up from the data
• Analyzes and reflects on collected data to continuously ensure lesson & unit plans are designed to meet scholar needs
• Gives scholars a well-constructed diagnostic assessment up front, and uses the information to fine-tune instruction.
• Has scholars set ambitious goals, continuously self-assess, give feedback, and take responsibility for improving performance.
• Help scholars develop as self-assessors and self-adjusters

Family and Community Outreach

• Communicates respectfully with parents and is sensitive to different families’ cultures and values.
• Shows parents a genuine interest and belief in each child’s ability to reach standards.
• Gives parents clear expectations for scholar learning and behavior for the year.
• Promptly informs parents of behavior and learning problems, and also updates parents on good news.
• Updates parents on the unfolding curriculum and suggests ways to support learning at home. 
• Responds promptly to parents' concerns and make parents feel welcome in the school.

Other Responsibilities

• Engage with community in after-school activities 
• Engage with community in open communication