Pretoria Campus Part-time Middle Choir Teacher/es Music Teacher

**Job Description: Part-time**Middle Choir Teacher/Es Music Teacher**

**CAMPUS**: Pretoria Campus | **SUPERVISOR**: Pretoria Campus Principal | **START DATE**: 08 September 2025 |
**POSTING DATE**: 25 August 2025 | **CLOSING DATE**: 01 September 2025**

**Inspire Learning to Build Our Better World.** At the American International School of Johannesburg (AISJ), we are committed to providing an exceptional education that empowers global citizens to fulfill their future purpose. Our vision is to inspire learning to build a better world. We seek a dedicated and passionate professional who aligns with our commitment to excellence and believes in the transformative power of education. Every team member is crucial in creating a supportive and nurturing learning environment. At AISJ, we value every employee as a learner and expect them to embody and support the AISJ Portrait of Learner (**_Resilience_**_, _**_Mindful_**_, _**_Thinker_**_, _**_Globally Connected_**_, _**_Curious_**_, _**_Contributor_**) through their work. We are dedicated to justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion within our school community.
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**Position Overview**

The Pretoria Music Teacher draws on a rich repertoire of pedagogical practices to inform curriculum for children’s Music learning, development and wellbeing. They are responsive to children and their unique social, emotional, and learning profiles. The Music Teacher exhibits expertise in Music instruction and learning across Elementary and Middle School, and a passion for promoting and fostering an appreciation for arts learning, presentation, and interpretation. The Music Teacher develops positive relationships with families, AISJ team members, and the greater AISJ community. The Music Teacher is an active community leader, contributing to curricular and extra-curricular initiatives that promote community, wellbeing, and arts-related learning experiences, inclusive of the Pretoria Campus Production. They collaborate, plan and implement intentional learning opportunities that incorporate a spirit of play and agency through concept-driven inquiry inspired experiences. The Music Teacher creates physical, temporal, intellectual, social and emotional environments that value the culture and contexts of children and their families. They systematically analyse, assess, monitor and evaluate, and share children’s learning, development and wellbeing in ways to understand, acknowledge and document children’s progress and development. The Music Teacher takes an active and collaborative role in the ongoing revision and alignment of the AISJ Music curriculum.

**Qualifications**
- Elementary teaching certification with at least a four-year degree in education.
- Master’s degree or similar preferred.
- Current teaching certification (appropriate to age level and specialization).
- Qualification and/or experience in concept-driven inquiry learning.
- Qualification and/or experience in IB Primary Years Programme.
- Qualification and/or experience in Responsive Classroom practices and environments.
- Qualification and/or experience directing Pretoria productions.

**Professional qualities**:

- International school teaching experience.
- Experience, and knowledge of Elementary and/or Middle Music (in particular Choir).
- Experience in curriculum and assessment development.
- Expertise in building a learner-centered, concept-driven, inquiry and play-based learning environment.
- Investment in and ability to develop a sense of community, belonging and trust.
- An ability to communicate and build relationships with Elementary and Middle School learners, team members and families.
- A positive attitude and committed team player. Someone who is solution focused.
- Deep understanding of the developmental needs of ES/MS learners.
- Experience designing and implementing an engaging and rigorous Music curriculum in alignment with AISJ’s Principles of Learning and National Core Arts Standards.
- Commitment to and proven success within a learning-focused, collaborative professional environment.
- A proven ability to differentiate instruction to meet individual needs.
- Experience in integrating technology to enhance learning.
- Experience using concepts, standards and backwards design to plan instruction.
- Outstanding organizational and time management abilities.

**Performance Responsibilities**

In addition to the Music curriculum expectations, teachers at AISJ are welcomed into a collegial and collaborative working environment. In support of this, teachers are expected to:

- Communicate and liaise with colleagues to identify and develop transdisciplinary learning experiences.
- Take an active role in proactive behavior management and wellbeing of learners.
- Use a range of strategies to differentiate learning
- Collaboratively plan units of study.
- Attend and constructively contribute to team meetings.
- Assist in supervision of learner breaks. Supervise learn