This position is responsible for designing and delivering engaging media arts instruction for Middle and Upper School students. The Media Arts curriculum emphasizes creative expression, digital storytelling, and effective communication across a range of platforms and audiences. Instruction is grounded in collaboration, critical thinking, problem-solving, and ethical media practices. Students engage in authentic, project-based learning experiences that mirror real-world communication environments and encourage them to create, analyze, and reflect on media for different purposes and contexts. Course formats may include television and film production, and podcasting. This position is a full time, 10-month schedule and reports to the Dean of the Upper School.

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a commitment to authentic, project-based learning experiences that mirror real-world media and communication contexts
•  Foster creativity, innovation, and responsible media creation
• Integrate current and emerging digital tools and platforms to support media production, editing, and storytelling
• Design motivating, standards-aligned lessons that reflect strong knowledge of curriculum, adolescent development, and student interests
• Cultivate an inclusive classroom environment that values diverse perspectives, voices, and cultural contexts
• Use a variety of formative and summative assessments to evaluate student learning and inform instruction
• Create a dynamic, age-appropriate learning environment that supports creativity, collaboration, and responsible risk-taking, while maintaining clear expectations for learning and behavior
• Select and maintain instructional resources and digital tools that support media arts instruction and production
• Collaborate effectively with colleagues and administrators
• Demonstrate strong classroom and project-based learning management skills
• Adhere to MVA’s standards for faculty members regarding teaching, service, and scholarship as outlined in the MVA Employee Handbooks. 

Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree required; prior teaching experience and a Master’s degree preferred
• Experience in media arts, digital storytelling, journalism, film, broadcasting, or related fields strongly valued
• Ability to contribute meaningfully to extracurricular or co-curricular programming preferred
• Excellent writing, communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills required

Physical requirements: 

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. 
• The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.  
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the Academy’s facilities.

About Montverde Academy

Founded in 1912, Montverde Academy is an elite college preparatory school for grades Pre-K3 through post-graduate studies with a distinct student population from over 90 countries worldwide. With 1,400 students, the Montverde Academy community inspires students to become knowledgeable leaders with global vision, a passion for learning, and strong character development in a disciplined and diverse community. Our prestigious athletic program includes nationally recognized basketball and soccer programs and state-of-the art training facilities. Montverde Academy also offers a Theatre Conservatory and Music Conservatory, along with Subject Area Concentration programs in STEM, Business/Economics, Global Perspectives, and Communications.

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