What are the responsibilities and job description for the Progam Enhancement - Dance and Movement Teacher @ Rankin Elementary position at Gaston County Schools?
Dance/Theatre Arts Teacher
Definition - Dance
Under general supervision, plans, organizes, and presents instruction and instructional environments which help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their educational and social development.
Definition – Theatre Arts
Under general supervision, the employee is responsible for planning, organizing, and presenting instruction and instructional environments which help students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their educational and social development.
Duties and Responsibilities - Dance
- Teaches North Carolina Standard Course of Study/Essential Standards.
- Provides learning experiences and teaches the course of study prescribed by the District approved curriculum.
- Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturity.
- Provides individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate students.
- Establishes and maintains standards of student control required to achieve effective participation in all activities.
- Evaluates the academic and social growth of students and keep appropriate records.
- Provides appropriate instruction and activities for students to meet school/district policies, goals, and objectives.
- Communicates with parents through a variety of means.
- Holds parent conferences to discuss the individual student’s progress and interpret the school program.
- Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
- Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays such as bulletin boards, interest centers, etc.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and/or professional growth activities and university courses.
- Selects and requisitions instructional materials; maintains inventory records.
- Cooperates in school-wide supervision of students during out-of-classroom activities.
- Participates in faculty and/or district committees and the sponsorship of student activities.
- Experience with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
- Experience with Smartboard© and other forms of technology.
- Performs other related work as required.
- Integrates content areas into the Dance program.
- Participates in community and state cultural arts events and programs.
- Demonstrates kinesthetic awareness with a high level of consistency and reliability through the use of proper body alignment while performing dance.
- Teaches various structures and/or forms of dance in dance compositions.
- Integrates movement with choreographic intent to communicate ideas with individual style and clarity.
- Critiques how effectively technical/theatrical elements in personal choreography and works of others affect the meaning of dance.
- Demonstrates the use of concentration and focus with a high level of consistency and reliability as part of the role of a performer of dance.
- Teaches dance history and appreciation.
- Exposes students to dance genres and styles.
- Guides students through artistic conflict and resolution.
- Demonstrates technological applications to dance.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Duties and Responsibilities – Theatre Arts
- Teach North Carolina Standard Course of Study/Essential Standards.
- Teach courses in High School Curriculum Guide (http://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/news/CurrentPubs/HSCurrGuide.pdf).
- Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturity.
- Provides individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate assigned students.
- Establishes and maintains standards of student control required to achieve effective participation in all activities.
- Evaluates the academic and social growth of students and keep appropriate records.
- Provides appropriate instruction and activities for students to meet school/district policies, goals, and objectives.
- Communicates with parents through a variety of means.
- Holds parent conferences to discuss the individual student’s progress and interpret the school program.
- Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude, and learning problems.
- Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays such as bulletin boards, interest centers, etc.
- Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and/or professional growth activities and university courses.
- Participates cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop the method by which s/he will be evaluated in conformance with district guidelines.
- Selects and requisitions instructional materials; maintains inventory records.
- Cooperates in school-wide supervision of students during out-of-classroom activities.
- Participates in faculty and/or district committees and the sponsorship of student activities.
- Experience with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
- Experience with Smartboard© and other forms of technology.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities - Dance
- Knowledge and possession of strategies to teach a wide variety of learners.
- Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people, or things.
- Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, and/or directions from administrators.
- Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc.
- Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials,
etc. using the prescribed format.
- Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
- Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions.
- Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
- Ability to manage instructional time.
- Ability to manage student behavior.
- Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with students, teachers, parents, and administrators.
- Ability to communicate in written and oral form.
- Ability to monitor student performance.
- Ability to interact within the educational environment.
- Ability to perform non-instructional duties as assigned.
- Understands and has the ability to implement data-based planning.
- Understands content integration.
- Fully understands Dance’s role in the regular curriculum and knows how to integrate the content areas.
- Understands the growth and development of assigned students.
- Ability to develop skills in technique, choreography, and improvisation.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities – Theatre Arts
- Skilled in assessment and using its data for teaching and learning.
- Ability to meet the needs of all learners.
- Ability to plan, coordinate, and continuously improve instruction.
- Ability to analyze situations, determine possible options, and make appropriate decisions based on the facts.
- Ability to develop and compile records and reports.
- Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for students, etc.
- Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
- Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, and/or directions from administrators.
- Ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc.
- Ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials,
etc., using the prescribed format.
- Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
- Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.
- Ability to establish and maintain working relationships with parents, students, teachers, staff, and administrators.
- Ability to manage instructional time.
- Ability to manage student behavior.
- Ability to consult with parents, teachers, and the community to enhance the learning of students.
- Ability to monitor student performance.
- Ability to work with multiple departments.
- Ability to interact within the educational environment.
- Ability to perform non-instructional duties as assigned.
- Understands the growth and development of high school students.
Physical Requirements
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee occasionally is required to sit and stoop, kneel, or crouch.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Must be able to perform medium work exerting up to 30 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 20 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to 30 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
- Must possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with record processes, and do extensive reading and research.
Minimum Education and Experience - Dance
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college/university.
- Must hold a North Carolina license in Dance Education (00805) or be eligible for a license.
Minimum Education and Experience – Theatre Arts
- Minimum of Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited college/university.
- Must be fully licensed as a Theatre Arts Teacher (00108) or eligible for licensure.
- Strong background in North Carolina Course of Study/ Essential Standards.
- Experience in directing, preferred.
- Experience in community theatre, preferred.
This Position Reports Directly to: Principal
Classification: Exempt
Salary: North Carolina Teacher’s Salary Schedule (www.ncpublicschools.org))
Disclaimer
The preceding job 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 to perform this job.
If offered a position, the prospective employee must pass a required health exam, criminal records check, and drug test.
