Position Title: 7th Grade Fine Arts Teacher  

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Assignment: Middle School 

Reports to: Building Principal 

Date Available: 2024-2025 School Year

Crete Public Schools is seeking qualified applicants for the position of 7th grade Fine Arts Teacher at Crete Middle School for the 2024-2025 school year. Benefits include paid health insurance, long term disability insurance, and personal and sick leave. This position is open until filled. 

Essential Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s Degree or higher
• Nebraska Teaching Certificate with appropriate endorsement 
• Satisfactory completion of criminal background check

Essential Functions: 

• Excellent skills in oral and written communication
• Skills in leadership, interpersonal relations, organization, prioritization, problem solving and conflict management, assessment and evaluation
• Ability to work with students, staff, administration, and parents

Essential Requirements:

• Develop and maintain a classroom environment which is conducive to effective learning.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students and administration.
• Instruct students in the field of communication arts, including literature, writing, public speaking, and media studies.
• Instruct through lectures, discussions, demonstrations and other appropriate methods for the field of fine arts.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Prepare, administer, and grade assignments and tests to evaluate student performance, both with written and performance based assignments and assessments.

• Issues grade reports on a periodic basis.
• Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning for all students, including students with individual education plans, using approved curricula. 
• Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to resolve students' behavioral and academic needs.
• Maintain accurate and complete records of attendance, absences, tardies, and other information as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.
• Serve as a model for students.
• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
• Relates with staff, parents and community through positive professional cooperation. 
• Attend staff meetings, conduct parent/teacher conferences, and participate on committees as required.
• Participate in professional growth through an ongoing program of workshops, seminars, conferences, inservices, and/or advance course work at institutions of higher learning.
• Remains current with developments and contemporary interpretations of subject matter and  teaching methodology consistent with the professional assignment.
• Undergoes periodic evaluations according to State and Board policy and procedures.
• Follow the policies, regulations, procedures, and expectations established by the Board and administration.

Other Responsibilities:

• Perform other tasks or duties as assigned by the Superintendent or Principal.

Essential Functions: 

• The essential functions of each employee’s position includes 

(1) regular, dependable in-person attendance on the job; 

(2) the ability to perform the identified tasks and to possess and utilize the identified knowledge, skills, and abilities and to perform the identified work activities; and 

(3) the ability to perform the physical requirements of their specific job description.

Working Conditions: 

• Environment: Inside and Outside 
• Mental Demands: Ability to work under pressure and to meet timelines
• The ability to perform the following identified physical requirements: