Santa Cruz, California
LOS ANGELES, California
Posted: 07-Mar-23
Location: VAIL, Colorado
Type: Full Time
Salary: Dependent Upon Experience
Salary Details:
Required Education:
Purpose: The visual arts teacher is a collaborative, experienced, and nurturing teacher who is excited to join a dedicated team working in an independent school K-12 environment. This teacher has the ability to build rapport and communicate well with students, colleagues, and parents and is flexible, adaptable and creative.
What You Will Do:
- Teach Visual and Digital Arts to students in lower, middle, and upper school, to experienced and novice artists, as well as develop lesson plans and map and review curriculum.
- Classes may include iPad Photography, Digital Photography, Foundations
- Teach a Digital Ethics course to 9th Graders as part of the Ethics Curriculum in Upper School
- Provide general supervision of students at all times in the building (including lunch and recess)
- Work within the visual arts department to create a cohesive and inclusive learning environment for our students
- Develop an appreciation of visual arts as well as the ability to develop portfolios to pursue further studies for your students.
- Maintain an orderly classroom environment by managing materials and student projects.
- Generate assignments and activities to promote learning in a creative manner
- Fairly assess students both formatively and summatively and maintain a gradebook with weekly grades for middle and upper school
- Write narrative quarterly comments
- Reach out to students, parents and teachers in a professional and collaborative manner
- Serve as a dynamic colleague and professional, collaborating with department and divisional colleagues
- Contribute to and support on-going exhibitions in and out of school, creative outreach work with the wider community, Week of the Arts, After School Academy, and Family and Staff Art Nights.
- Serve as a Homebase Advisory (either primary or secondary in the Middle or Upper School)
- Create and Maintain the Annual Vail Mountain Yearbook
- Participate in Board related events, as requested
- Advocate for and ensure that diversity, inclusion, and social justice permeates the school's programs and drives its culture.
- Jump in to help when your team is in need. This might include covering classes, skiing or snowshoeing with students, implementing parent and student art nights, or hopping onto a field trip that needs to be covered.
Who You Are:
- A “raise your hand” type of person. You’re interested in participating in school events like after school academy, field trips, sitting at lunch tables, assisting with carpool, hut trips, and Ski Fridays (or alternative winter outdoor activities). You are ready to participate fully in the life of the school.
- A person who fosters an inclusive workplace built on equitable policies and procedures. You are also able to engage a diverse team of co-workers and students.
- Able to communicate in a timely and professional manner with students, parents, colleagues, and volunteers
- Ready to attend and participate at related meetings and assist with afternoon/evening programs; some of which may occur outside of the school day
- Actively promoting the mission of the school
- Deeply knowledgeable in the visual arts and the digital arts; displaying dedication, passion, inspiration, the ability to individualize student learning, and the capacity to help all students succeed.
- Passionate about a diverse range of visual arts including mixed media painting/drawing, 3D and 2D art, digital photography, video media, design thinking, innovative design, ..as well as a passion for teaching a range of ages
- Ready to utilize Responsive Classroom and Love & Logic as a member of our Lower School faculty.
- Committed to pursuing professional development and a life-long learner.
- Flexible and adaptable to student needs and Vail Mountain School’s needs
- Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) from four-year college or university required; advanced degree preferred
- Proficient in designing effective lessons, teaching diverse learners and managing students of all ages
- You are passionate about diversity, equity, and inclusion and their integration into our school. You consider yourself culturally competent and so do your co-workers.
Who We Are:
We are a rapport-based independent school who is proud of our roots in the Vail Valley. As a group, we are made up of active people who are committed to instilling the value of our natural surroundings to the next generation through education, responsibility, and kindness. VMS is a caring and thoughtful organization committed to the lives of our employees. We offer a competitive benefit package including medical, dental, and vision insurance plans designed to fit the needs of our faculty and staff. We offer a monthly wellness benefit reimbursement as well as FSA and HSA options depending on your health insurance elections. We focus on the professional development of our faculty and staff through individual professional development opportunities. Vail Mountain School is proud to offer competitive compensation based on your life experience.
In order to develop character, seek knowledge, and build community, Vail Mountain School is dedicated to addressing institutional and individual inequities in order to holistically support the well-being and success of our community members. We are committed to approaching the topic of inclusivity as rigorously as we do our academics, learning side by side as a cross-age community. We aim to acknowledge the past societal failures of silence and passivity, especially prevalent in our educational institutions, as we strive to create a welcoming and supportive environment for every student.
