Director of Music and Head of Learning Area - Visual and Performing Arts
The Director of Music and Head of Learning Area (VAPA) will be a highly informed, effective, reflective and professional teacher in their subject.
Summary about this job
Teaching - Secondary
Company: Carmel School
Location: Perth
Work type: Full Time
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Phone: +61-8-9275-5119
Fax: +61-3-8462-5267
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Detail information about job Director of Music and Head of Learning Area - Visual and Performing Arts. Terms and conditions vacancy
- Leadership role in a highly ranked school
- Join an existing high-performing team
- Inspire, guide and challenge students and staff
About the business
Carmel School is a vibrant Jewish day school, and one of Perth's highest performing Kindy – Year 12 schools. Located in Dianella, our student body comprises close to 500 students and we have just over 100 staff employed. Our expectation is that staff will maintain the School's high standards and strive to achieve excellence in all that they do.
About the role
Reporting to the Head of Secondary, The Director of Music and Head of Learning Area (VAPA) will be a highly informed, effective, reflective and professional teacher in his/her subject who models and facilitates best professional practice. He/she will provide effective administration, management and leadership in all aspects of the work of the Learning Area to maximise teaching and learning within the Learning Area. The Director and Head of Learning Area will be keen to inspire, guide and challenge teachers and students under his/her responsibility to achieve creative, academic and personal goals of growth and success. He/she will demonstrate enthusiastic and positive commitment to the ethos of the School, its values and policies, promoting them within the Learning Area and wider school/community contexts. He/she will strive to be an example of a life-long learner who embraces change, trusts in the assistance of others and recognises the dynamic nature of the educational environment.
Applications close 31 August. For a full position description, visit carmel.wa.edu.au
Skills and experience
- Support the School's Vision, Purpose and Values
- A secondary teaching qualification, with a specialization in Music
- A sound knowledge of the Western Australian Curriculum
- A collaborative approach to teaching and learning
- An informed, skilled approach to utilizing ICT in education
- A clear understanding of how children learn best, embodied in targeted explicit teaching and personalized learning for students
- A thorough understanding of 21st Century pedagogy and thinking
- Experience in producing and / or musically directing school musicals is highly desirable