Music Teacher
Fort Worth, TX
2024-2025 Teacher – Elementary School Teacher /
Full-time /
On-site
Position Description
Our Music Teacher provides PreK-5th grade students with the opportunity to engage creatively and exposes students to new learning experiences outside of the traditional academic classroom and deepens their understanding of the world around them. The Music Teacher plays a critical role in strengthening school culture. They interact with all students on a weekly basis. The school is supported by school leaders who provide professional development and real-time coaching for teachers in their classroom every single week. Just as our teachers invest their time and energy in the progress of their students, we invest our time and energy in the progress of our teachers.
Rocketship's collaborative learning environment reaches well beyond the classroom. We are deeply committed to parent engagement. Teachers new to our network are always impressed by how deeply our Rocketeer parents are engaged in their school's community. Annual teacher home visits, monthly parent community meetings, and a vibrant parent volunteer network create solid relationships, a rich school culture and a devoted community that propels student achievement.
At Rocketship, you are joining a network and a community committed to excellence. If you are looking for the chance to drive transformative change in underserved communities and contribute to a national movement to eliminate the achievement gap in our lifetime, look no further than Rocketship. We have ambitious plans to scale our system to serve more communities in need every year. We prioritize developing leaders from within and have invested in multiple career pathway programs for our teachers and school leaders.
Essential Functions
- Deliver rigorous and engaging instruction captured in units and lesson plans
- Build a classroom culture of excellence
- Motivate students to participate in learning activities; create a positive student culture; maintain high expectations for all students
- Engage in cycles of data driven instruction to inform planning and personalize instruction to student needs.
- Collaborate with teachers and school leaders
- Differentiate content by age-group and/or grade-level to ensure that activities are developmentally appropriate.
- Collaborate with school staff to develop a positive culture focused on Rocketship's core values (respect, responsibility, persistence, empathy)
- Ensure that students have access to a positive and productive learning environment by enforcing all campus safety rules and behavior expectations
- Other duties as assigned by the supervisor
- Partner with all students and families through frequent communication, building trusting relationships, and embracing the knowledge parents have as their child's first teacher.
- Build authentic relationships with families beginning with home visits that form the foundation for frequent ongoing communications to support student success.
- Engage with families on academic and behavioral goals and transparently share student progress so that both parents and teachers own each child's successes and challenges.
- Commit to doing and being their best, and to growing their skills as professionals and as individuals
- Attend all professional development meetings and opportunities
- Urgently and courageously takes actions in the best interest of students, even if they are new or unfamiliar
- Meet all professional obligations and proactively communicate when changes come up
- Exhibit a high level of honest and humble self-reflection owning good and bad outcomes
- Effectively respond to and implement constructive feedback
- Communicate effectively with colleagues and contribute to positive staff culture
- Collaborate with all staff members to ensure that all students have consistent and well-coordinated support
Student and Parent Partnership:
Rocketship Professional Culture:
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree
- A valid teaching credential
