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Arts Coordinator

From: Patricia Knott (pknott)
Date: Sat Mar 11 2000 - 02:49:58 PST

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    Department Head - Coordinator - Curriculum Leader - we are called all three
    in my district, without any clear job description. First of all, I am
    "meetinged" to death. Coordinators meetings, department meetings, meetings
    with the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, school board meetings,
    committee meetings, County Arts Council meetings, it goes on and on.

    I oversee the bids for all art district wide and am responsible for the high
    school budget. All purchase orders must be approved by me and I keep track
    that all items are received before payment is made. My budget notebook alone
    is 2 inches thick. I make all proposals for curriculum changes, oversee
    curriculum writing and end up doing most of it myself. District art goals
    and objectives, scope and sequence as well as course curriculums are my
    responsibility. I feel the curriculum stuff alone could be a full time job.
    I have to go before the Board at least three times a year to defend (and
    sometimes it is a battle) the art budget, program initiatives, and class
    scheduling. I am an advocate for my department and look out for the art
    teachers needs. I participate in interviewing and selecting new art
    teachers. I coordinate district art shows. Whenever a committee is formed
    to investigate district or high school policy changes and I can't find
    someone from the department to represent us, which is most of the time, I
    end up on that committee. I do all the PR for the department. There is not
    a day that some phone call or request needs to be answered.

    I teach 5 classes a day including the Advanced and AP art classes. I have no
    duties, but there is another teacher in my room during my free period and I
    am not welcome in the room so I have little opportunity to get work done at
    school. I get paid an extra $1900 a year for all this aggravation. At this
    point, I seriously question whether to continue. Nobody wants these
    positions in our district. We have supervisors for the "major" subjects.
    The only thing they do that we do not, is observe and they teach few or no
    classes.

    Rick, if this is a position you are considering, make sure the job
    description is clear and in writing and that there is adequate compensation. 

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