Lower School Teaching Assistant- Visual Arts

Lower School Visual Arts Teaching Assistant

Trinity School is searching for a Lower School Visual Arts Teaching Assistant for the 2025-2026 school year. Teaching assistants work closely with the visual arts teacher to plan and deliver a Christian education. Assistants provide supervision, support, and training of individual students or groups of students within the regular educational setting, and they assist with daily preparation, instruction, activities, and clean-up of materials as determined by the classroom teacher. Assistants are expected to exercise effective classroom management skills and to seek to establish a caring and supportive environment for pupils on a daily basis. Maintaining a safe learning environment for all students and communicating daily with the classroom teacher are important contributions of Trinity teacher assistants.

Job Description:

Each teaching assistant is expected to:

• Serve as a role model of Christian faith and action; interact with students, family, and staff in a manner consistent with Biblical values.
• Be inside the classroom no later than 15 minutes before students arrive and leave the classroom 30 minutes after the students depart.
• Attend all planned school functions: e.g., open houses, in-services, and teacher workdays required for other teaching staff.
• Support a vibrant classroom culture of visual art learning.
• Assist the teacher with preparation, instruction, and clean-up of materials and activities daily.
• Oversee small group activities that require expertise in the teaching of visual arts.
• Encourage students to be involved in visual arts activities in and out of school.
• Cultivate a passion within students for creating art.
• Attend training for Lower School faculty that focuses on the instructional particulars of the Trinity mission.
• Participate in teaching the “how to be a student” habits that include classroom management practices.
• Help assess and evaluate each student’s progress daily and quarterly.
• Interact with children in ways appropriate to child growth and development.
• Carry out supervisory teacher duties in a prompt and reasonable manner when necessary, as agreed on with the teacher.
• Provide technical assistance to the teacher: e.g., filing, recording, and copying.
• Be supportive of Trinity School on campus and in the community as well as being loyal and complimentary of administration, staff, and fellow colleagues.
• Arrange for a substitute assistant and all details when the assistant must be absent.
• Communicate all relevant concerns about students to the teacher.

Trinity is a highly missional school, and an understanding of and commitment to the school's mission is essential: to educate students in transitional kindergarten to grade twelve within the framework of Christian faith and conviction—teaching the classical tools of learning; providing a rich yet unhurried education; and communicating truth, goodness, and beauty.

Located in Durham, North Carolina, Trinity School is a Christian School that values both a rich Christian faith and vibrant academic excellence.

To be considered, qualified candidates should attach a cover letter, resume, and any other supporting documents, such as college transcripts and certifications, to their Trinity application.