About This Role
Teaching music to students and helping them learn new skills is the main purpose of this role. The Music Teacher also helps students develop socially and contributes to their overall education, while potentially coordinating teacher assistants.
Responsibilities
- Have materials, supplies, and equipment ready for each lesson or instructional activity at the start
- Get the class started quickly and students on task promptly at the beginning of each lesson
- Maintain a high level of student time-on-task
- Establish a set of rules and procedures that govern the handling of routine administrative matters
- Establish a set of rules and procedures that govern student verbal participation and talk during different types of activities (whole class instruction, small group instruction, etc.)
- Establish a set of rules and procedures that govern student movement in the classroom during different types of instructional and non-instructional activities
- Frequently monitor the behavior of all students during whole-class, small groups, and seat work activities and during transitions between instructional activities
- Stop inappropriate behavior promptly and consistently, while maintaining the dignity of the student
- Begin lessons or instructional activities with a review of previous materials
- Introduce lessons or instructional activities and specific learning objectives when appropriate
- Speak fluently and precisely
- Present lessons or instructional activities using concepts and language understandable to the students
- Provide relevant examples and demonstrations to illustrate concepts and skills
- Assign tasks that students can handle with a high rate of success
- Conduct lessons or instructional activities at a brisk pace, slowing presentations when necessary for student understanding but avoiding slowdowns
- Make transitions between lessons and between instructional activities within lessons efficiently and smoothly
- Make sure that assignments are clear
- Summarize the main point(s) of the lesson at the end of the lesson or instructional activity
- Maintain clear, firm, and reasonable work and standards and due dates
- Circulate during class work to check all students’ performance
- Routinely use oral, written, and other work products to check students’ progress
- Pose questions clearly and one at a time
- Provide feedback on the correctness or incorrectness of in-class work to encourage student growth
- Regularly provide prompt feedback on assigned out-of-class work
- Affirm a correct oral response appropriately, and move on
- Provide sustaining feedback after an incorrect response or no response by probing, repeating the questions, giving a clue, or allowing more time
- Have an instructional plan which is compatible with the school and system curricular goals
- Use diagnostic information obtained from tests and other assessment procedures to develop and revise objectives and/or tasks
- Maintain accurate records to document student performance
- Have an instructional plan that matches/aligns objectives, learning strategies, assessment, and student needs at the appropriate level of difficulty
- Use available human and material resources to support the instructional program
- Treat all students in a fair and equitable manner
- Interact effectively with students, co-workers, parents, and the community
- Carry out non-instructional duties as assigned and/or as need is perceived
- Adhere to established laws, policies, rules, and regulations
- Follow a plan for professional development and demonstrate evidence of growth
Requirements
- North Carolina ESL K-12 Licensure Preferred
Important Details
- Supervises: May coordinate and direct the activities of teacher assistants
