Art Teacher, Clothing & Textiles/Fashion Design (2024-2025 School Year)

Title of Position:                                             

Art Teacher, Clothing & Textiles/Fashion Design (2024-2025 School Year) 

Location:

Marlborough High School   

Effective Date of Employment:                                              

2024-25 School Year

Start Date:                                                       

August 26, 2024

Salary:                                                                  

Placement on the Teacher's Salary Scale according to education and experience.

Organizational Relationship or Line of Authority:                                      

Directly responsible to the School Principal in matters related to the building. Jointly responsible to the Principal, the Supervisor of Visual Arts, and the Assistant Superintendent for Teaching and Learning.

Statement of Duties:

Responsible for instruction and general duties as indicated by the Principal, Supervisor of Visual Arts, directives of the Superintendent of Schools or his/her designees, and policies of the Marlborough School Committee.

Performance Responsibilities:

• Teaches clothing, textiles, and fashion classes within the visual arts department.
• Be able to guide students through individualized projects, teaching a wide variety of methods, materials, and techniques unique to apparel construction.
• Flexibility and adaptability to differentiate learning to meet the diverse needs of students.
• Creates a learning environment that promotes creativity and self-expression.
• Plans and produces an annual fashion show of student work.
• Organizes and manages studio equipment, materials, and tools, and instructs students in proper care and use of such equipment.
• Establishes classroom safety standards to provide an orderly and productive studio environment.
• Defines high expectations for the quality of student work and the perseverance and effort required to produce it.
• Effectively partners with families, community members, and organizations to build relationships that support student learning.
• Responsible for planning lessons that guide students through the creative process and teaches them a variety of techniques.
• Must be collaborative and have strong desire to build school community through the arts.
• Meets and instructs assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the subject matter and the pedagogy it requires by engaging students in learning experiences that enable them to acquire complex knowledge and skills in the subject.
• Demonstrates knowledge of developmental levels of students and the different ways students learn by providing differentiated learning experiences to enable all students to progress toward meeting intended outcomes.
• Organizes and analyzes results from assessments to determine progress and uses findings to adjust practice and identify and/or implement appropriate differentiated interventions and enhancements for all students, including those with disabilities and English learners, using various methods, including but not limited to, tiered instruction, scaffolds and adapted instruction and/or materials to accommodate differences in learning.
• Prepares for classes assigned and shows written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate superior.
• Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior.
• Uses rituals, routines, and appropriate responses that create and maintain a safe physical and intellectual environment where students take academic risks and most behaviors that interfere with learning are prevented.
• Uses strategies and practices that are likely to enable students to demonstrate respect for and affirm their own and others' differences related to background, identity, language, strengths, and challenges.
• Shows understanding of and sensitivity to different families' home language, culture, and values.
• Maintains accurate, complete, and correct records as required by law, district policy, and administrative regulations.
• Assists in upholding and enforcing school rules, administrative regulations, and School Committee policy.
• Makes provisions for being available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when required or requested to do so under reasonable terms.
• Seeks out and applies ideas for improving practice from supervisors, colleagues, professional development activities, and other resources to gain expertise and/or assume different instruction and leadership responsibilities.
• Establishes and maintains cooperative relations with others.
• Attends and participates in faculty meetings.
• Accepts a share of responsibility for co-curricular activities as assigned.
• Demonstrates sound judgment reflecting integrity, honesty, fairness, and trustworthiness and protects student confidentiality appropriately.
• Consistently fulfills professional responsibilities; is consistently timely and reliable with paperwork, duties, and assignments; and demonstrates regular attendance.
• Performs other duties as assigned by building principal.

Qualifications:

• Licensed by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in Visual Art (grades 5-12).
• Degree in Textiles/Fashion Design/Apparel Construction preferred.
• Knowledge of fashion history and fashion illustration.
• Bilingual preferred (Spanish and/or Portuguese).
• SEI Endorsement preferred.
• Such alternatives to the above qualifications as the Superintendent may find appropriate and acceptable.

An Equal Opportunity Employer

It is the policy of the Marlborough Public Schools not to discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, national origin, color, homelessness, sexual orientation, gender identity, age or disability in its education programs, services, activities, or employment practices.