Ludington Elementary School Music Teacher

Deadline: June 1, 2025
District/Organization: Ludington Area Schools
Position/Type: Teacher, full time
Salary: Per LEA Contract

Position Details

Ludington Elementary School Music Teacher Posting 2025-2026 School Year – Ludington Elementary School in Ludington, MI seeks a dynamic, relationship-driven music teacher to provide instruction to students in grades PreK-5. Ludington Elementary School opened in 2022 and is a state-of-the-art teaching and learning facility. The Ludington community is incredibly supportive of education, including the tradition of excellence in music education and the arts that exists within our community. The successful candidate will meet the requirements listed below:

• Duties and Responsibilities:

• • Plan, prepare, and deliver lesson plans and instructional materials that facilitate learning for elementary students using the district-approved curriculum to drive instructional decisions that align with Michigan’s standards of creating, performing, and responding.
  • Collaborate with teachers within the structure of a Professional Learning Community to enhance curriculum, instruction, and assessment.
  • Establish a classroom structure that values positive relationships and supports the Positive Behavior Interventions and Supports system.
  • Communicate necessary information regularly to students, colleagues, and parents regarding student progress and needs.
  • Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
  Coordinate musical activities including musical performances.
  

Additional Qualifications: Qualified candidate should skillfully demonstrate the following competencies:

• The strong desire and ability to build meaningful, caring relationships with students.
• The skill and willingness to leverage the ASCD Whole Child model to ensure that students’ social, emotional, nutritional and health needs are addressed.
• The ability to collaboratively create and execute clear, logical instructional plans that produce strong results in student learning.
• The ability to integrate 21st Century competencies such as technology literacy, collaboration, communication, critical thinking and problem solving, goal setting, ethical citizenship, and personal accountability in curriculum.
• The capacity to create a system of ongoing data collection and analysis to inform a tiered intervention system.
• The capacity to align curriculum, instruction, and assessments while responding to individual needs of students.
• Knowledge of the Orff Approach to Music Teaching is highly desirable.

Required Professional Qualification:

• Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in Education
• Valid Michigan Teaching Certificate in Music
  • JX or JQ Certification
• Valid state licensing to meet Highly Qualified requirements
Strong instrumental skills, including piano accompaniment and some vocal experience.

Apply in writing with a letter of interest, resume, copies of certification, transcripts and three letters of recommendation to Mrs. Katie Eisinger, Principal, Ludington Elementary School, Ludington Area School District, 809 E Tinkham Avenue, Ludington MI 49431. Application materials should be submitted as one (1) PDF attachment to: keisinger@lasd.net.

E-mail: keisinger@lasd.net

Attachments: LASD-Teacher-Recruitment-Flyer-2025-3.pdf