Adjunct Middle School Theater Teacher

Description

Founded in 1905 and serving nearly 1,000 day and boarding students from 28 states and 19 countries, McCallie is one of the country’s premier independent schools and a national leader in educating boys in grades 6-12. As stated in our newly adopted strategic plan, McCallie takes an expansive view of education, seeking to form the whole boy. In his journey to manhood, McCallie comes alongside the student and supports his mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional development.

During a time of strength, momentum, and growth, McCallie seeks an experienced and dynamic teacher to join our Theater and Musicals team. Our theater team works with both McCallie students and students from the Girls Preparatory School (GPS). GPS inspires each girl to lead a life of integrity and purpose by engaging her mind, cultivating her strengths, and nurturing her self-confidence and respect for others.

This teacher’s primary responsibility will be to direct and produce a mission and developmentally appropriate middle school play for McCallie students in the Spring. This individual will also be a key contributor to working across McCallie and GPS for a successful middle school musical at GPS in the Fall.

The teacher should create an enthusiasm for plays and musicals that attract a wide range and growing number of students to participate. Such plays and musicals will regularly and generally be practiced in the context of an after-school extracurricular activity when academic classes have concluded. This individual will communicate with the theater team, with both schools, and promote close coordination between the schools. 

The Adjunct Middle School Theater Teacher is a 10-month, part-time position. It  is considered exempt under the FLSA and it is not eligible for benefits.

Key Responsibilities:

• In partnership with the Director of Theater and Musicals, recommend to the administrations of both schools an annual play that will attract many students from a variety of backgrounds from both schools and that are mission and developmentally appropriate.
• Develop a growing number of students who are interested in and participate in plays and musicals, including meeting participation goals set by the two schools.
• Promote the plays and musicals to the students and school communities to generate enthusiasm for the program and good attendance at the performances.
• Execute all details and logistics of the plays and musicals, including the practices.
• Embody and promote the mission and ideals of each school, including developing positive and healthy mentoring relationships with students.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in theater, music, or a related field
• Relevant teaching experience
• Demonstrate commitment to lifelong learning, flexibility, collaboration
• Deep understanding of, support for, and desire to live out McCallie’s mission for the good of McCallie boys - including both the school’s commitment to character development and the ideals of honor, truth, and duty and the school’s Christian foundation and Judeo-Christian heritage

Additional qualifications or characteristics desired, but not required, include:

• Experience in teaching students the various skills and characteristics needed in plays and musicals, especially at the middle school level
• Experience in directing, producing and/or leading plays and musicals, especially at the middle school school level
• Experience as a classroom teacher and/or school roles, especially at a middle school school