Immediately Need Secondary Teacher - Band/Orchestra in Colorado
Job title: Secondary Teacher - Band/Orchestra
Company: Prospect Ridge Academy
Job description: The Secondary Band/Orchestra Teacher is responsible for planning, implementing, and delivering instruction to a variety of ability levels. The teacher will demonstrate supplementary content knowledge and assist students in accurately listening, writing, speaking, and reading at the various student levels.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct an organized and professional classroom.
- Model and foster independent thinking skills, creative problem solving, and abstract reasoning.
- Show empathy and understanding for students.
- Communicate consistently and effectively with students, parents, and colleagues.
- Develop a cooperative partnership based on mutual respect and objectivity with parents and students.
- Assess student performance frequently and objectively.
- Facilitate resolution of problems that might arise with students and parents.
- Promote accountability for students.
- Instructional and technological competency.
- Knowledge of and adherence to approved communication pathways.
- Actively pursues professional development opportunities.
- Participate in and contribute to programs and activities that enhance Prospect Ridge Academy outside of instructional hours.
- Follow policies established by the PRA Board of Directors, Adams 12 School District, and Colorado State-mandated school guidelines, except where PRA has received waivers.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
- B.A. or B.S. required in the specific content area.
- Current Colorado Teaching License.
- Must meet the state certification requirements within the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA).
- Demonstrated experience in the instruction of students with varied learning styles and levels of mastery.
- Commitment to Core Knowledge curriculum.
- Commitment to the implementation of Character Education and Positive Behavior System.
- Read and interpret documents such as rules, policy and expectation, agreements, rubrics, scope and sequence documents, and assessments.
- Understand and carry out instructions given in written, oral, or diagram form.
- Ability to deal with problems involving several variables.
- Ability to work collaboratively with various groups.
- Ability to apply an entrepreneurial outlook and a charter school commitment.
- Strong organizational skills and the ability to coordinate different tasks.
- Work with limited supervision and to be self-motivated.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
- Vision abilities required include close vision, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, and ability to focus.
- Provide backup assistance and coverage for other areas.
- Work is occasionally performed outside with exposure to extreme temperatures.
- This position includes contact with students, staff, Administrators, PRA Board of Directors and parents.
- Work hours may occasionally be extended.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
- This position reports to the School Principal(s).
- Direct Reports: None.
- DENTAL - Dental insurance is provided by Delta Dental of Colorado.
- VISION - Vision insurance is provided by VSP.
- FLEXIBLE SPENDING - There are two different options for flexible spending provided by Discovery Benefits.
- LIFE/AD&D - You are provided 1x your annual salary (up to $100,000) as group term life insurance provided by Lincoln Financial Group.
- STD/LTD - PRA pays the entire cost of short- and long-term disability benefits.
- PERA - Administered by Colorado, PERA is a tax-deferred retirement account to which you contribute 11% of your monthly earnings. Additionally, PRA contributes 21.4% to the PERA pension trust fund on your behalf.
- EAP - Employee Assistance Program is provided by Lincoln Financial.
- PAL - Paid Annual Leave beginning immediately following the first day of work (FTE 1.0 = 10 days / 0.8 = 8 days/ 0.5 = 5 days etc.)
- Paid Holidays that include - 11 paid Holidays for 10 month Employees (please refer to Employee Handbook for these 11 days) and 15 paid Holidays for 12 month Employees (please refer to Employee Handbook for these 15 days).
- Paid Holidays that include - 11 paid Holidays for 10 month Employees (please refer to Employee Handbook for these 11 days) and 15 paid Holidays for 12 month Employees (please refer to Employee Handbook for these 15 days).