Description
Start Date: Immediately
End Date: June 30, 2025 or upon return of incumbent
FTE: 0.4 (Part time)
NATURE OF THE ASSIGNMENT
The successful applicant will work in collaboration with the existing Music teacher. Days of work to be determined.
NECESSARY QUALIFICATIONS
A Bachelor of Education Degree (Elementary) specializing in Music.
Successful experience teaching Music at the elementary level.
Orff Level 1
Choir experience
Piano
Music Teacher experience
GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS, ATTRIBUTES and EXPERIENCE
Strong commitment to excellence in teaching and demonstrated teaching ability.
Comprehensive understanding of curriculum coupled with demonstrated ability to interpret curriculum appropriately to accommodate individual differences.
Demonstrated ability to design and implement a variety of assessment practices to measure and monitor student progress effectively.
Demonstrated ability to organize for instruction to maximize student potential.
Confidence and proficiency in using instructional organizers, concepts, and strategies that actively engage all students in learning.
Knowledge and demonstrated ability to structure and organize instructional strategies to enhance academic learning time.
Practical knowledge of district initiatives in reading so that reading skills and strategies can be taught explicitly across the curriculum to insure reading success.
Strategies to identify learning difficulties early, understand obstacles to learning, and implement effective intervention to maximize academic success.
Knowledge and understanding of the application of relevant computer technologies to teaching and learning.
Excellent written and oral communication.
Evidence of personal initiative and strong work ethic.
Demonstrated successful and creative classroom experience.
Demonstrated ability to demonstrate flexibility and responsiveness to the needs and demands of the profession.
Willingness to be involved in professional development, with an ongoing commitment to learn and implement new methodologies and strategies.
Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with students, parents, and staff to enhance the school as a learning community.
CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:
Possession of a BC Teaching Certificate
Membership in the BC Teacher Regulation Branch.
A member of the North Vancouver Teachers’ Association and the BC Teachers’ Federation.
