Position Title: PEAK Arts Visual Arts Teacher

FLSA: Exempt

Reports To: Director of Career Education and District Innovation

Beginning: August, 2024

Terms of Employment: A full contract for this position is 190 days, with benefits as specified in employee contract. Contract will be prorated based on actual start date. 

Qualifications

• AR licensure required.
• Certification in Art.
• Experience preferred. 

Courses 

• Visual Arts Foundations I-IV, Visual Art Appreciation, Art History, Studio Art 2-D and/or Studio Art 3-D (and any other Arkansas Visual Arts Approved Coursework).
• Specialty Areas: drawing, painting, ceramics, sculpture, art appreciation, art history.

Essential Job Functions

• Collaboration with Staff and Families:
• Deliver daily, in person instruction to PEAK Arts Students in grades 9-12.
• Teach the course of study prescribed by the District approved curriculum.
• Collaborate weekly on lesson design, standards-alignment, and course progressions with PEAK Visual Arts Teacher(s).
• Participate in ongoing professional learning to support constructivist lesson design, graduate profile integration, and multi-year portfolio and exhibition development.
• Teach AP coursework if necessary.
• Communicate with parents through a variety of means and within effective timeframes.
• Maintain art inventory records.
• Participate cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop the method by which s/he will be evaluated in conformance with district guidelines.
• Collaboration with Students: Act as an internship supervisor. 
• Act as a student portfolio defense model and exhibition mentor.
• Direct planning and supervision of portfolio defense model/exhibition.
• Provide individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate students.
• Establish and maintain standards of student behavior and engagement required to achieve effective participation in all activities.
• Identify student needs and cooperate with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve health, attitude and learning problems.
• Counsel individuals to help them understand and overcome personal, social, or behavioral problems affecting their work-based learning situations.
• Create an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive community displays such as art gallery, art walk, etc..
• Provide guidance to students and parents when difficult situations occur at his/her internship site.
• Match student career interest with work-based learning activities.
• Facilitate employment skills workshops: job interviewing, job application, and resume writing.
• Observe and evaluates pupils' work to determine student progress or to make suggestions for improvement.
• Accompany students on field trips to museums or art galleries.
• Collaboration with Business:
• Collaborate with college and business partners on real-world application of arts standards and meaningful work-based learning experiences.
• Serve as a member of the PEAK Arts Advisory Board.
• Recruitment:
• Assist with recruiting future students.
• Promote pathway programs to community, non-profit and private sectors.
• Carries out duty as assigned, including after-school or before-school duties
• Participates in grade level collaboration, planning, as part of PLCs, as well as school committees
• Supervises students on recess, bus, during before and after school duty, on field trips, extracurricular events, and in out-of-classroom activities during the assigned working day
• Maintains prompt and regular attendance 
• Demonstrates the ability to maintain positive professional working relationships with others
• Maintains emotional control under stress
• Abide by state statutes, school board policies, and regulations
• Performs other duties as assigned

OTHER JOB FUNCTIONS  

• Has the ability to lift at least 40 pounds occasionally.
• Ability to endure prolonged standing, walking, sitting, occasional reaching above the head or the shoulders, bending, squatting, and kneeling.
• Teachers could be asked to teach at various locations to serve the needs of students.

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