Art Teacher at Pond Cove Elementary (Cape Elizabeth Schools)

Job Description: Pond Cove is a large elementary school with 550+ students in grades K-4 and 90+ staff. We are a high performing school with expectations of excellence and rigor in all areas of an educator's professional practice. We are seeking a positive, hard-working, and effective educator with high expectations for themselves and others for an Art Teacher position.

The successful candidate will join a team of six other Allied Arts teachers (total of seven). This role includes planning, designing, and delivering engaging and hands-on lessons and measuring student growth and progress. Teaching Art at Pond Cove will require a deep understanding of the creative process, an innovative approach to incorporating different art mediums, and a passion to inspire students to express themselves through their own artistic creations. The position includes covering student recesses and/or lunches and collaborating with a large number of colleagues including grade level teachers, school social workers, school counselors, special educators, extended learning coaches, and building principals.

Certification Requirements: Visual Arts K-12 (620)

The successful candidate will demonstrate the following competencies:

• A solid knowledge base of and ability to deliver rigorous and highly effective instruction in the visual arts
• The ability to establish clear behavior expectations and predictable routines that foster a safe social-emotional and physical learning environment
• Exhibit a growth mindset and foster a culture of growth and learning within the classroom, amongst colleagues, and school-wide
• An awareness of school-wide needs and expectations and a willingness to embrace shared responsibility, including fulfilling duties and attending meetings outside of the school day
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
• Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with school administrators, staff, students, and families

Professional Qualifications:

• Accepts shared responsibility for supporting all children, including meeting the needs of a wide range of learners
• Ability to collect and analyze data and use it to inform and deliver differentiated instruction
• Models nondiscriminatory practices
• Knowledgeable about school law and legal responsibilities
• Preferred experience/training in the following:
  • Responsive Classroom
  • Positive Behavioral Supports and Interventions
  • Response to Intervention (RTI)
• Build a community of learners who respect and care for each other
• Provide students with engaging, hands-on, and high-interest lessons/learning opportunities
• Meet student needs, including social-emotional, academic, and behavior
• Share ownership of students for all aspects of learning and fulfill supervision duties (e.g., recess, lunch, etc.)
• Be able to pivot quickly when changes happen (e.g., schedule changes, support and attend school assemblies and events, fulfill coverage needs, etc.)

Personal Characteristics:

• Child-centered
• Self-confident leader
• Humble
• Willing and ready to grow and learn as a professional
• Supportive of mandates and expectations
• Persistent problem-solver
• Critical and conceptual thinker
• Effective communicator
• Positive
• Respectful toward colleagues and supervisors
• Organized
• Proactive
• Flexible

Application Instructions: Cape Elizabeth Schools will not accept paper or emailed applications or supporting materials. All applications and supporting materials are to be completed online via Frontline Recruiting & Hiring (formerly Applitrack) at https://www.cape.k12.me.us/o/cesd/page/job-openings--105 and must include the following:

1. Completed online application (this includes answers to writing prompts)
2. Cover letter specific to posted position
3. Current resume
4. Copies of all post secondary transcripts
5. Three letters of recommendation
6. Copy of current Maine teaching certification or proof of pending certification

Internal applicants should submit the internal application form via Frontline Recruiting & Hiring (formerly Applitrack) on our website - https://www.cape.k12.me.us/o/cesd/page/job-openings--105

Online application materials should be directed to:
Tiffany Karnes
Principal
Pond Cove Elementary School
12 Scott Dyer Road
Cape Elizabeth, Maine 04107

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Cape Elizabeth is a residential community located on the Atlantic Ocean three miles south of Portland, two hours north of Boston, and covers about 15 square miles. It has a population of 9,068 residents living in 3,200 households. Cape Elizabeth has three schools; Pond Cove Elementary School, grades K-4; Cape Elizabeth Middle School, grades 5-8; and, Cape Elizabeth High School, grades 9-12. All schools are located within easy walking distance of each other. Please visit our website for more information.