Urgently Require Music Teacher - Preschool (Part Time or Full Time) in Bethesda, MD
Job title: Music Teacher - Preschool (Part Time or Full Time)
Company: The Goddard School
Job description: The Goddard School of Bethesda is looking for an energetic, warm, and engaging Music Teacher.
A Music Teacher at The Goddard School® is responsible for establishing and maintaining a safe, healthy, and nurturing learning environment. Additionally, the Music Teacher is responsible to work together with classroom Teachers in conjunction with the entire faculty.
This may be a Part Time Music Teaching only position, or a Full Time Music and Early Childhood teacher.
Daily Responsibilities:
- Meeting the individual needs of the children by interacting with the children to support play, exploration, and through music.
- Assess supplies and materials needed to implement activities
- Build teamwork
- Communicating appropriately and professionally with parents and fellow staff.
- Creating a positive, fun, interactive learning environment in their classroom where children develop a lifelong love of learning.
- Develop weekly lesson plans for each age level.
- Presenting expectations that are appropriate to the child?s age and developmental level.
- Planning and implementing activities that develop self-esteem and social skills.
- Ensure compliance with Goddard?s Quality Assurance Standards.
- Manage classrooms according to GSI QA Standards
- Support a code of ethical conduct
- Pursue professional development/continuing education
- Attend faculty meetings, in-service days, conferences and professional growth opportunities
- An Associate?s degree or higher in Early Childhood Education, Elementary Education, Child Development or a related field preferred.
- A current CDA or Early Childhood Teaching Credential.
- Proof of current and active enrollment in an accredited Associate?s or Bachelor?s degree program in Early Childhood Education or a related field
- An Associate?s degree or higher in a Music related field
- All foreign degrees MUST be converted to U.S. credits.
- All foreign courses and/or credit hours must be converted to U.S. standards.
- Ability to hear the conversational voice, with or without a hearing aid
- Ability to see and read newsprint, with or without corrective lenses
- Ability to speak and be understood under normal circumstances
- Ability to lift and carry children and other items weighing up to 50 pounds
- Ability to use arms, hands, legs, and feet, with or without corrective devices; this includes the ability to evacuate the building during emergencies