Art Instructor Jobs (Casual)
The Watson Institute is hiring casual Art Instructors to support the WISCA programs in Sewickley and Sharpsburg, PA. This casual position will work 8 hours per week, following the school calendar.
Please note: we are seeking applicants now for this 2024-2025 school-year position.
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Employment Type: Temporary
Location: Sewickley, PA - Sharpsburg, PA
Art Teacher Job Responsibilities:
- Plan and conduct assessments
- Record and interpret assessment data
- Develop lesson plans specific to skills practiced in Art Class
- Adapt art projects to students’ abilities and needs
- Complete student progress reports, specific to Art Class
- Order art supplies
- Plan, implement and adapt instructional activities
- Organize and maintain a safe and effective learning environment
- Utilize appropriate behavior management strategies and techniques
- Communicate routinely with parents
- Work effectively within a transdisciplinary educational team
- Participate in WISCA program activities
- Supervise the activities of the classroom aide(s)
- Travel between sites as needed
- Other duties as assigned
Required Skills:
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to organize and present written and verbal information about students
- Ability to organize the learning environment of students
- Ability to work as a transdisciplinary team member
- Ability to manage students’ behaviors
- Ability to plan and implement student instruction
- Ability to supervise paraprofessional staff
Teacher Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s Degree required
- Pennsylvania Teaching Certification in Art Education required
- Two years teaching experience in special education preferred
- Most tasks require oral communication, visual and hearing perception, and the ability to get around the classrooms, cafeteria, gym, campus, etc.
- Supervise students during emergency drills, play periods and community-based instruction; the ability to keep up with running children and/or to lift, position, or assist with lifting students is essential to perform this task
- The essential functions of the job described herein require the ability to exert moderate physical effort in light work, typically involving some combination of bending, stooping, squatting, reaching, kneeling, crouching and brisk walking, which may involve lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and material of moderate weight (40 pounds)
- Ability to physically restrain students for their safety and the safety of others
- Current PA Acts 34, 114 and 151 Clearances
- Pre-employment medical examination, including a tuberculosis test required