Middle School Teacher - Music​/MS Band Director

26-27: 2050 - Middle School Teacher - Music/MS Band Director

Murray Independent Schools MISD - Murray Middle School - Murray, Kentucky. Open in Google Maps.

This job is also posted in Murray Independent Schools - Murray Head Start.

• Job : 5570250
• Final date to receive applications: Posted until filled
• Posted: Mar 04, 2026 6:00 AM (UTC)
• Starting Date: Immediately

• Shall hold a bachelor’s degree or higher and the required Kentucky certificate for the assigned position.
• Shall demonstrate the ability to communicate and work effectively with students, peers, parents and faculty.
• Must be chosen with reference to personal, educational, physical, moral and emotional fitness.

To help students acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes that society feels will contribute to their development into mature, able and responsible men and women.

• Determine appropriate action within clearly defined guidelines.
• Present a positive image of the school to parents, and convey to them the school’s genuine concern with the education, growth and development of each student.
• Seek to establish friendly and cooperative partnerships between home and school.
• Work to develop a positive public relationship between the school district and the community.
• Carry out assignments in a timely manner without undue checking.
• React positively to directives.
• Have a willingness to cooperate with the superintendent, district administrators, principals, and staff.
• Maintain the confidentiality, both verbally and in written form, of each student’s educational record.
• Strive to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Take necessary precautions to protect students, equipment, materials and facilities.
• Adhere to School Board of Education Policies and Procedures.
• Adhere to policies set forth by the Educational Professional Standards Board.

• Build positive relationships with and between school and community.
• Promote leadership potential in colleagues.
• Participate in professional organizations and activities.
• Write and speak effectively.
• Contribute to the profession knowledge and expertise about teaching and learning.
• Guide the development of curriculum and instructional materials.
• Participate in policy design and development at the local school, within professional organizations, and/or within community organizations with educationally related activities.
• Initiate and develop educational projects and programs.
• Demonstrates effective listening, conflict resolution, and group-facilitation skills as a team member.
• Communicate a breadth of content knowledge across the discipline(s) to be taught.
• Communicate a current knowledge of discipline(s) taught.
• Demonstrate a general knowledge that allows for integration of ideas and information across the disciplines.
• Demonstrate an overall knowledge of one's discipline(s) that allows the teacher to teach to the students' ability levels and learning styles.
• Connect content knowledge to real-world applications.
• Plan lessons and develop instructional materials that reflect knowledge of current constructs and principals of the discipline(s) being taught.
• Analyze sources of factual information for accuracy.
• Present content in a manner that reflects sensitivity to a multicultural and global perspective.
• Collaborate with teachers in other disciplines to analyze and structure cross-disciplinary approaches to instruction.
• Focus instruction on one or more of Kentucky's learning goals and academic expectations.
• Develop instruction that requires students to apply knowledge, skills, and thinking processes.
• Integrate skills, thinking processes, and content across disciplines.
• Create and utilize learning experiences that challenge, motivate and actively involve the learner.
• Create and use learning experiences that are developmentally appropriate for learners.

• Develop and incorporate strategies that address physical, social, and cultural and that show sensitivity to differences.
• Arrange the physical classroom to support the types of teaching and learning that are to occur.
• Include creative and…