Reports To: Head of Middle School
FLSA Status: Nonexempt
Position Summary:
Glenelg Country School, a coeducational independent school (grades Pre-K-12) in Howard County, Maryland, seeks a full-time Middle School Choral Music teacher for the 2024-2025 school year to begin August 2024.
Typical Education and Experience:
The successful candidate will have a music education degree with experience directing developing choirs, strong musical theater experience, piano proficiency, and ability to work closely with the instrumental program and performing arts faculty.
Overview of Essential Functions:
- teaches music appreciation and choir classes
- organizes student performances
- directs the Fall MS Musical
- advises a small group of students
- coaching a team and/or sponsoring an activity each trimester
- performs other duties within the Middle School as part of a grade-level team.
Key Skills and Attributes:
The ideal candidate is an energetic and creative educator who demonstrates enthusiasm for working with students in grades 6-8, a passion for music, and contributes to a positive culture with a strong emphasis on building positive relationships with students, staff, and the GCS community. Ability to develop and implement daily lessons that are both rigorous and engaging as well as strong interpersonal skills and a willingness to collaborate are musts.
Glenelg Country School is looking forward to welcoming an innovative, dedicated, and dynamic instructor to our team.
Typical Level of Interaction:
Requires strong interaction with all School divisions and departments.
Administration
All prospective employees must be able to clear background checks, as required by the State of Maryland.
Physical Demands:
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to listen, physically direct, and speak. The employee is required to stand, walk; use hands to finger, compute, handle, clean spills, tie shoe, zipper coats or feel and reach with hands and arms. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision and ability to adjust focus with screens, white boards, printed material, and ability to see children in detail. The employee must be able to lift at least thirty pounds. The employee is also regularly required to climb two flights of stairs.
Work Environment:
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those of a school and what an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
The noise level in the work environment is moderate; however, variations in noise level may occur when the employee attends school functions such as assemblies, school dances, and other events.