Location
The Woodlands, TX | United States
Job description
- Teach knowledge and skills in middle school art, including drawing, printmaking, and sculpture
- Comfortable teaching introductory to advanced placement level sculpture techniques to upper school students
- Provide instruction by which students develop aesthetic concepts and appreciations and the ability to make qualitative judgments about art
- Understand a variety of “masters” techniques
- Knows and can apply elements of design and modern principles of art
- Provide individual and small-group instruction to adapt the curriculum to the needs of students with varying intellectual and artistic abilities, and to accommodate a variety of instructional activities
- Instruct students in proper care and use of tools and equipment
- Organize storage areas and control use of materials, equipment, and tools to prevent loss or abuse, and to minimize time required for distribution and collection
- Evaluate each student’s performance and growth in knowledge and aesthetic understandings, and prepare student feedback
- Plan and present art displays and exhibitions designed to exhibit students’ work for the school and the community
- May sponsor exhibits from outside the school
- Maintain professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the school and/or in self-selected professional growth activities
- Communicate with parents and school counselors on pupil progress
- Participate in curriculum and other developmental programs, such as after school art club
- Perform any other duties as may be assigned by Administration
Job Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts; preferred Master’s degree in Fine Arts
- Three years’ teaching experience
- Personal portfolio of digital work
- Portfolio of student work demonstrating proficiency in the required areas listed above.
About The John Cooper School
School Type: Independent, college preparatory, non-sectarian, non-profit, co-educational day school for grades PK through 12Founded: 1988; first graduating class – 1994; alumni - 1,479Location: The Woodlands, TX, a planned community 40 miles north of HoustonAccreditation: Accredited by The Independent Schools Association of the Southwest (ISAS); member of The National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS).
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