Full-time faculty responsibilities include:

• Teaching five classes with the ability to communicate, create and execute lessons in different forms/mediums of art (including digital) that are engaging for high school-level students.
• Serving as a grade-level advisor committed to students' social and emotional development.
• Participating in co-curricular activities, including moderating student clubs and/or organizations and supervising grade-level retreats.

The ideal candidate will:

• Cultivate an inclusive, collaborative, and challenging learning environment that reflects SMPREP's core values and allows our diverse student body to grow and thrive.
• Exhibit a passion for content knowledge and a range of pedagogical approaches while teaching students Art across various grade levels within an in-person, blended learning environment.
• Create an environment in the classroom and in all areas of co-curricular responsibility that nurtures the development of the whole student.
• Show a willingness to engage students in meaningful learning experiences and foster a project-based learning environment.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to develop an integrated, meaningful curriculum and student learning experiences.
• Provide constructive and effective feedback on students’ artwork to improve performance.

Desirable Qualifications:

• MFA degree, Education or related field and/or California Single-subject Teaching Credential
• 3-5 years of teaching experience
• Experience with collaborative curriculum design, ideally including backward design based on clearly defined learning objectives, and experience planning student-centered lessons that are differentiated to meet the needs of all learners
• Experience providing instruction that prioritizes communicative and task-based pedagogical approaches
• Experience in the development and implementation of project-based learning curriculum

• Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art
• Ability to teach Intro level - honors and AP Studio level Art classes
• Experience using instructional technology
• Ability to convey enthusiasm for the subject matter and develop a positive rapport with students
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Willingness to contribute to school life outside of the classroom

• $52,000 - $92,000
• Send resume and cover letter to searchcommittee@smprep.org

SMPREP seeks an inspiring Visual Art teacher who develops students to be budding artists. The Art teacher will have the primary responsibility for planning, programming and teaching Visual Arts. The teacher demonstrates a passion for the visual arts and a complete dedication to student success. The teacher demonstrates effective professional skills, a positive and team-centered personality.

The successful applicant will:

• Help students in the processes of creating, responding and connecting in visual arts.
• Demonstrate an understanding of students’ social-emotional and academic development.
• Help students envision, set goals and determine a method to reach a goal and try it out.
• Aid in the study and creation of art, in which students use the potential of the human mind to its full and unique capacity.
• Engage students in an authentic creative process to develop technical artistic skills through contemporary and traditional practices using traditional and non-traditional materials.
• Help students discover the expressive qualities of art and are able to reflect, critique and connect personal experience to art.

The minimum requirements are:

• Have a strong knowledge of CA Visual Arts standards.
• Must be passionate about teaching Art.
• An undergraduate degree (BA, BS) from an accredited university or college.
• Ability to join a professional community of educators committed to providing a challenging standards-based curriculum in a Catholic environment of service.
• Ability to use technology effectively in LMS and adaptive/assignable programs.

In addition to the above, the preferred requirements are:

• An advanced degree (MA, MS) in Education.

Please send .pdf files:

1. a cover letter stating your interest to work as a teacher at Saint Monica Preparatory
2. a complete résumé; to Dr. Neil Quinly, Principal, nquinly@smprep.org

Only complete applications will be considered. Salary dependent upon experience. Thank you.

• Develop and execute teaching strategies and assessments in line with a project-based learning framework.

• Work with students with varying learning needs.

• Collaborate with other teachers and administrators through effective, timely and pertinent communication.

• Advocate for students’ needs to teachers and administrators.

• Contribute to the school and classroom community

• Ability to teach Chemistry at either the honors or non-honors level

• Familiarity with project-based learning is preferred, but not required

• Willingness to learn common educational technology

• The ability to teach Biochemistry is preferred, but not required

• Minimum requirement - BA degree

• Special consideration will be given to applicants with an advanced degree in education or in the subject matter field

$52,000 - $92,000.

Send resume and cover letter to searchcommittee@smprep.org.