Theater Teaching Artist
Theater Teaching Artist
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Job Description
Discipline:Theater
Location:Redondo Beach School District
Schedule:4 days per week; 20 hours per week
Residency Length:10 weeks; January 14 2025 March 28 2025
Position Summary
P.S. ARTS Teaching Artists are equal parts professional artists and professional educators. Teaching Artists are responsible for delivering a highquality authentic and engaging curriculum that is inclusive creative and aspirational. As we move into a new era of education Teaching Artists at P.S. ARTS are given the opportunity and challenge of designing new ways to deliver arts education.
P.S. ARTS serves schools and communities as a partner and ally. Knowing that each community will have different needs P.S. ARTS strives to deliver programming that embodies our values of Art Excellence Equity Innovation and Community.
A successful Teaching Artist is enthusiastic about creatively engaging with their students open to adapting their teaching practice and a dependable figure in the classroom. A Teaching Artists overall goal is to empower students to have the freedom to imagine and the power to create.
Knowledge Skills & Abilities
- Demonstrated experience of inschool (K5th teaching)
- Demonstrated knowledge and expertise in teaching theater
- Demonstrated knowledge or familiarity with Californias Framework for VAPA
- Ability to work collaboratively in/out of a school environment and with school communities
- Experience working in Title I designated schools and surrounding communities preferred
- Fluency in Spanish preferred
Responsibilities
- Deliver and/or facilitate inperson arts instruction;
- Facilitate sequential standardsbased differentiated curricula in the arts;
- Foster a creative and healthy classroom environment;
- Implement classroom management techniques including routines and rules;
- Prep setup and cleanup of lessons classrooms or carts;
- Utilizing and making connections with Californias Framework for VAPA
- Documentation of teaching practice:
- Submit curriculum and lesson plans using P.S. ARTS online mapping program; and
- Submit student evaluation rubrics and provide documentation of student work.
- Maintain a supply budget(s);
- Attend and participate in P.S. ARTS Family Art Nights and similar events (festivals backtoschool nights etc.) at assigned schools;
- Attend and participate in P.S. ARTS training and professional development workshops;
- Demonstrate implementation of new skills within teaching practice;
- Represent P.S. ARTS amongst multiple school community stakeholders including classroom teachers parents administrators and donors; and
- Responding to emails and other communication in a timely manner.
This description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities duties or responsibilities that this position requires. Descriptions may change at the discretion of the CEO in response to the organizations needs.
A criminal history may have a direct adverse and negative relationship with these identified job responsibilities potentially resulting in a conditional offer of employment being withdrawn. Additionally per California Education Code 45122.1 45125.1 and 44237 criminal history restrictions apply.
Working Conditions:
Teaching Artists must maintain a safe and clean classroom environment physical or virtual that promotes learning creativity and equity. Teaching Artists may routinely:
- Lift push or carry supplies equipment instruments or classroom furniture up to 40 lbs.
- Bend twist reach stand and/or sit for long periods.
- View LCD screens for long periods.
- Work/teach outdoors.
- Work with video equipment and be comfortable with recording and/or being recorded.
About P.S. ARTS:
The P.S. ARTS team is a diverse group of people with different skill setsandexperiencesfrom variousculturesand backgroundswith one thing in common a dedication to arts education.P.S. ARTS encourages all employees to feel empowered by and model the Organizations values of Art Community Equity Innovation and Excellence.
P.S. ARTS is an equal opportunity employer and is dedicated to better reflecting the communities we serve while building an inclusive environment for people of all backgrounds and ages.P.S. ARTS also supports and will provide reasonable accommodation to ensure the application process is accessible to candidates who require additional accommodation.P.S. ARTS will consider qualified applications with arrest or conviction records for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.
Employment Type
Part Time
