CERTIFIED_MS Instrumental Music Teacher 2025/26

Job Title: MS INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC TEACHER

Department: Instruction

Salary and Benefits : Commensurate with experience and graduate degree(s). There is no cap on years of experience when determining salary. Also, a ll health insurance premiums are fully covered, regardless of the plan selected.

Education Level and Certification: Bachelors degree required. Must possess at all times during employment a Nebraska Teaching Certificate with such endorsements as required by NDE Rule 10.

Reports To: Principal

Performance Responsibilities:

• Teach assigned classes and perform related duties as set forth under Job Tasks.
• Provide for the reasonable care and safety of students under the teacher’s supervision.
• Supervise students in out-of-classroom activities as assigned.
• Provide care for students, including reporting suspected child abuse or neglect to supervisor and provide medication administration as assigned.
• Participate in team meetings for the development of IEPs and 504 Plans and implement provisions of IEPs and 504 Plan accommodations for the teacher’s students.
• Participate in faculty committees and the sponsorship of activities as assigned.
• Participate in professional activities and staff development as assigned and as needed to maintain professional competence and to perform duties.
• Develop and maintain a positive rapport with students and parents.
• Develop and maintain a positive and professional working relationship with other staff and administration.
• Maintain confidentiality of information concerning colleagues, students, and parents in accordance with law and District rules.
• Provide for proper care, maintenance and reasonable security of all District property in the teacher’s custody.
• Utilize instructional materials and other resources in a competent and effective manner, including computer, e-mail, electronic student information systems, and other technology to perform assigned duties.
• Adhere to all district policies, rules, regulations, and supervisor directives.
• Adhere to the code of ethics of the District and the code of ethics set forth in NDE Rule
• The teacher must serve as a positive role model for other staff and students.
Perform other tasks as assigned.

Required Employee Characteristics: The Secondary Teacher is to possess and exhibit the following characteristics:

• Cooperation—Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude.
• Attention to Detail—Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks.
• Dependability—Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations.
• Integrity—Job requires being honest and ethical.
• Concern for Others—Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job.
• Self Control—Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations.
• Stress Tolerance—Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high stress situations.
• Adaptability/Flexibility—Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace.
• Independence—Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done.
• Initiative—Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges.
• Persistence—Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles.
• Achievement/Effort—Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks.
• Leadership—Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction.
• Social Orientation—Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job.

FLSA Status: Exempt.

Professional exemption: The employee has a primary duty of performing work requiring knowledge of an advanced type in a field of science or learning customarily acquired by a prolonged course of specialized intellectual instruction and study or has a primary duty of teaching, tutoring, instructing, or lecturing in the activity of imparting knowledge and is employed and engaged in this activity as a teacher.

Essential Functions:

The essential functions of the Teacher position include: (1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job; (2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills, and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and (3) the ability to perform the following identified physical requirements: