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Posted: 18-Apr-22
Location: Naples, Florida
Type: Part Time
Categories:
Elementary Teacher
Royal Palm Academy is a joyful, vibrant, independent, and family-oriented Catholic Pre-K to 8th Grade school located in beautiful Naples, Florida.
Royal Palm Academy has an opening for a Pre-K to 8th Grade Music Teacher for the 2022-2023 school year. This is a permanent, salaried position. Royal Palm Academy offers competitive salary and benefits for candidates to join our highly qualified faculty and staff. Applications are being accepted immediately and interviews will be scheduled for competitive candidates on a rolling basis until the position is filled.
This position is typically a part-time position, but could be structured into a full-time position with additional responsibilities for the right candidate.
THE POSITION: Music Teacher for Pre-K3 to 8th Grade
ESSENTIAL SKILLS, DUTIES, AND RESPONSIBILTIIES INCLUDE:
- Passionate about teaching elementary school aged students, and bring an energetic, joyful vibrancy to the classroom experience for our students.
- Must display an enthusiastic support of our school mission: "Royal Palm Academy partners with families to provide an education of rich academics with Catholic formation. We teach the mind, educate the heart, and form the character of tomorrow's leaders."
- Teach and act in accordance with doctrinal and moral teachings of the Catholic Church.
- Know, teach, and act consistently in accordance with the mission, philosophy, objectives, policies, and procedures of Royal Palm Academy.
- Provide age-appropriate extended or enrichment opportunities.
- Communicate regularly with parents or guardians, colleagues, deans, and head of school.
- Possess a strong classroom management skillset for students in grades Pre-K to 8.
- Proficient with technology, including with Microsoft Office and student information systems. Use our SIS to maintain accurate and current records of student progress and reports.
- Professional written and verbal communication skills.
- Provide excellent and responsive customer service to our parents and guardians.
- Reliable, flexible, organized, hard-working, patient, excellent communication skills, and outstanding with children.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- A joyful love of Catholic sacred music, and bringing our students into an introduction and experience of music
- A practicing Catholic with some experience in Catholic liturgical music
- Capacity for teaching music and leading a choir of students during Mass and for special events
- Capable of teaching a wide range of students, from Pre-K3 through 8th grade.
- An undergraduate or graduate degree in Music.
- Experience with traditional songs and chants during Mass, including sung Latin responses during Mass.
- Capable of leading and coordinating school-wide music productions, such as the annual all-school Christmas Pageant.
- Prior teaching experience for elementary age students is a plus.
TO APPLY:
Please submit a Cover Letter and Resume/CV as two electronic documents in Adobe PDF format to Michael Bussman, Head of School. Highly qualified candidates will also include a statement of how their background of education and experience makes them the strongest candidate who is ready to provide an immediate and positive impact on our students at Royal Palm Academy.
ABOUT ROYAL PALM ACADEMY
Royal Palm Academy is an independent, Catholic, pre-kindergarten to eighth grade school in Naples, Florida. Our mission is to partner with families to provide an education of rich academics with Catholic formation. Royal Palm Academy teaches the mind, educates the heart, and forms the character of tomorrow's leaders. This mission is pursued through the development of the whole person, integral formation, which encompasses the commitment to teach, to educate, and to form our students.