2024-2025 Part-Time String Ensemble Director: Chicago High School For The Arts – Chicago, IL

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String Ensemble Director

Title: String Ensemble Director
Department: Music
Classification: Part-time instructor

Schedule: This hour-long, year-long class meets on Monday/Wednesday/Friday during conservatory hours between 2-5pm.

General Summary:
String Ensemble is the large ensemble class for all string students at ChiArts. String Ensemble gives a minimum of three performances at ChiArts each year and also participates in external competitions and festivals as appropriate such as ILMEA and IHSA. Teaching responsibilities include regular assessment of all students and timely written communication to parents and guardians about upcoming performances. This position requires an individual dedicated to the craft of conducting and an in-depth understanding of the String Ensemble repertoire. It is also essential that applicants have experience coaching all strings.

Classroom and professional duties include, but are not limited to the following:

• Embrace and promote the ChiArts vision, mission, educational approach, goals, and core values
• Prepare structured lessons that encourage and foster skill development, critical thinking, applications, and ethics.
• Instruct conservatory level courses, serving students with various learning styles, abilities and needs.

• Employ outstanding classroom management skills and implement the school code of conduct.
• Regularly assess student achievement, skill mastery and career development skills.
• Submit unit plans on a timely basis.
• Manage classroom administration and record keeping, including grades, attendance records, student progress, and documentation of student work.
• Regularly communicate with students, parents and other ChiArts staff to share artistic progress, encourage positive behavior, and resolve behavioral and artistic issues.

• Attend and participate in faculty and administrative meetings, parent conferences, open house, other school functions, and in- service professional development sessions.
• Collaborate with the staff to develop “best practices” tailored to the unique philosophy and instructional approach of ChiArts and to the needs of its student population.
• Collaborate with other ChiArts artistic and academic faculty and the larger arts community.
• Perform other duties as the needs of the school and needs of the students may demand (e.g., competitions, exhibits.)
• Work with academic staff to ensure student’s overall success at ChiArts.