ESY Returner: Classroom Teacher | SALA; Summer Academy

ESY Returner:
Classroom Teacher | SALA (Summer Arts for Learning Academy)

SUMMER ARTS FOR LEARNING ACADEMY (SALA)

ESY CLASSROOM TEACHER

Reports to:

ESY Site Lead

Classification:
Temporary, Non-Exempt

The SALA ESY Classroom Teacher

Job Description:

ESY Classroom Teachers are paired with a Teaching Artist and Para educator for the entire program (Monday - Thursday). These pairs are responsible for delivering engaging, meaningful, and joyful artist-integrated instruction both in and through the arts daily. This teacher will assist in meeting a student’s needs which result from their different abilities. Their main goal is to enable all students to be involved in and thrive in the entirety of our program.

A SALA ESY classroom teacher will plan, develop, implement, and monitor individualized education programs. They will provide appropriate specialized educational instruction and work closely with related service staff to ensure continuity of services for meeting the specific needs of students with disabilities participation in the Extended School Year (ESY) Program for students in grades pre k-8. They will also manage student behavior, assess and evaluate student achievement, and modify instructional activities as required to meet the individual needs of students.

About the Summer Arts for Learning Academy:

Baltimore City Schools’ Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA), operated by Arts for Learning Maryland, offers students an opportunity to imagine, create, and express who they are through the arts. This is an action-packed, full-day, five-week program (Monday - Thursday) that introduces students to a wide variety of art forms —from illustration and spoken word to percussion, drama, and dance— which gives students a chance to work alongside students from across the city and be taught by professional Artists.

Students’ work is celebrated through a student showcase on the final day of the program. Arts for Learning Maryland will host ten Academy sites throughout the city, locations TBD.

Mission and Core Values:

The mission of Arts for Learning Maryland’s Summer Arts for Learning Academy (SALA) is to provide students with an opportunity to spend summer learning from the best Teachers and Teaching Artists our state has to offer. Through a dynamic, creative, and supportive environment, students will explore math and literacy in a unique arts-integrated environment that allows them to develop socially and emotionally, expands their personal creative process, introduces them to different art forms taught by professional Artists, and allows them to experience math and literacy content from a different lens.

We...

• believe unwaveringly that ALL students can achieve high standards in and through the arts.
• provide opportunities for students to develop powerfully articulate voices through art forms and honor their creative processes along the way.
• create safe, brave learning environments for students to grow, make mistakes, and contribute to the community.
• collaborate and reflect by learning from and with each other at every step of the process, cultivating positive relationships between all ages.
• encourage the development of critical thinking, problem solving, inquiry, imagination, and creativity, and provide multiple ways for students to demonstrate knowledge and mastery.
• learn about, honor, and leverage the cultural knowledge, experiences, and frames of reference of our students and community to make learning more relevant and effective.
• ensure that our students are known, loved, supported, celebrated, and valued.

Essential functions:

• provide direct instructional services to students with disabilities based on their Individualized Education Program (IEP).
• experience working with students with behavioral, cognitive, intellectual, social, and emotional disabilities.
• assesses individual students with disabilities for the purpose of preparing and implementing individual education programs.
• will participate in professional development prior to the start of the ESY Program and meet regularly with site-based and district office ESY Lead.
• develop, adapt, modify, and individualize educational materials, resources, techniques, methods,…