What are the responsibilities and job description for the Art Teacher position at Walker Inc?
Summary of position: To provide art education to students in kindergarten through eighth grade with social, emotional, behavioral, and learning challenges, as well as supporting art-related schoolwide events and activities. To create and maintain a structured, consistent, nurturing class environment.
Education and Licensure
Required: Bachelor’s degree in related field; MA licensure in Visual Arts (PreK-8), or Elementary Education (1-6)
Preferred: Master’s degree in related field
Experience
Required: N/A
Preferred: Experience working with children with complex social, emotional, and behavioral challenges
Abilities
Required mental abilities: Ability to be flexible and work collaboratively. Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and safely. Ability to work in a stressful and fast paced environment. Must understand child development and the impact of emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Must understand issues of confidentiality. Must be receptive to supervision and professional development.
Required physical abilities: Ability to work and stand for extended period of time. Job may require bending, stooping, stretching, and lifting. Job requires the ability to perform therapeutic physical intervention as needed.
Essential functions:
1. Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to further the emotional,
behavioral, and educational development of children.
2. Maintain a structured, therapeutic classroom atmosphere that promotes
hands-on engaging teaching methods; effectively manage the behavior of students
in small and large groups as per our behavior support system.
3. Implement treatment protocol and appropriate therapeutic strategies
established in children’s treatment plans, IEPs, and individual support plans.
4. Apply Walker’s model of childcare, including Therapeutic Crisis
Intervention (TCI), which requires physical restraint when necessary, traumainformed
care, cooperative group games, and behavioral support.
5. Meet children’s physical needs and provide a safe and therapeutic
environment for children
6. Participate fully in the administrative functions of teaching and childcare,
including attending and participating in required meetings, completing assigned
report writing tasks in a timely manner, and actively communicating with
students’ multidisciplinary teams and families.
7. Actively participate in supervision and professional development
opportunities offered at Walker.
8. Follow and implement all Walker policies and procedures.
9. Align units, lessons, and objectives with school and state standards.
10. Prepare sequential units of study as well as daily lessons and materials
necessary for instruction, setting clear and reasonable standards and expectations
for students.
11. Plan and implement weekly art lessons for all classrooms and a weekly art
elective.
12. Take photos at school event using Walker devices and assist with the
development of Walker’s annual yearbook.
13. All other duties, as assigned.
Supervision to be received: Directly responsible to and supervised by the Assistant Principal
Supervision to be exercised: None
Education and Licensure
Required: Bachelor’s degree in related field; MA licensure in Visual Arts (PreK-8), or Elementary Education (1-6)
Preferred: Master’s degree in related field
Experience
Required: N/A
Preferred: Experience working with children with complex social, emotional, and behavioral challenges
Abilities
Required mental abilities: Ability to be flexible and work collaboratively. Ability to respond to emergency situations quickly and safely. Ability to work in a stressful and fast paced environment. Must understand child development and the impact of emotional, behavioral, and learning disabilities. Must understand issues of confidentiality. Must be receptive to supervision and professional development.
Required physical abilities: Ability to work and stand for extended period of time. Job may require bending, stooping, stretching, and lifting. Job requires the ability to perform therapeutic physical intervention as needed.
Essential functions:
1. Work as a part of a multidisciplinary team to further the emotional,
behavioral, and educational development of children.
2. Maintain a structured, therapeutic classroom atmosphere that promotes
hands-on engaging teaching methods; effectively manage the behavior of students
in small and large groups as per our behavior support system.
3. Implement treatment protocol and appropriate therapeutic strategies
established in children’s treatment plans, IEPs, and individual support plans.
4. Apply Walker’s model of childcare, including Therapeutic Crisis
Intervention (TCI), which requires physical restraint when necessary, traumainformed
care, cooperative group games, and behavioral support.
5. Meet children’s physical needs and provide a safe and therapeutic
environment for children
6. Participate fully in the administrative functions of teaching and childcare,
including attending and participating in required meetings, completing assigned
report writing tasks in a timely manner, and actively communicating with
students’ multidisciplinary teams and families.
7. Actively participate in supervision and professional development
opportunities offered at Walker.
8. Follow and implement all Walker policies and procedures.
9. Align units, lessons, and objectives with school and state standards.
10. Prepare sequential units of study as well as daily lessons and materials
necessary for instruction, setting clear and reasonable standards and expectations
for students.
11. Plan and implement weekly art lessons for all classrooms and a weekly art
elective.
12. Take photos at school event using Walker devices and assist with the
development of Walker’s annual yearbook.
13. All other duties, as assigned.
Supervision to be received: Directly responsible to and supervised by the Assistant Principal
Supervision to be exercised: None
