Animation Teacher Position

We need an Animation Teacher ASAP since class starts Monday 8/19/19. If interested in this position, please email your Cover Letter and Resume to Freestyle Academy Program Coordinator Leo Florendo leo.florendo@freestyleacademy.rocks and apply online here.

Freestyle Academy is seeking an innovative full-time Animation teacher to join our Communication Arts and Technology Program. The ideal candidate will be prepared to teach as an innovator, with the ability to be flexible with course design and curricular content focusing on integrated project-based learning.

• Strong communication, creativity, enthusiasm and positive energy are essential.
• Transfer knowledge, including animation principles and theory, practical skills, methods and techniques.
• Impart practical application of principles, techniques, and animation and modeling software.
• *Strong design fundamentals and understanding of cinematic aesthetics
• *Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite
• *Experience with traditional and stop-motion animation, 2D computer animation, 3D modeling and animation, and programs/applications
• *Experience with digital video production, and multiple computer platforms is desirable.
• $84,476.00-$148,981.00 (For Full Time) MVLA Salary Schedule 
• Applications now being accepted through EdJoin
• Please contact Leo Florendo (Freestyle Academy Program Coordinator) at leo.florendo@freestyleacademy.rocks for questions.
  

Freestyle Academy info:

• Freestyle is an integrated program for students from both Los Altos and Mt. View HS located here
• Students must take English and Digital Media and choose their 3rd class in Animation, Film, or Design.
• This means there are only 5 teachers at Freestyle.
• Students work on larger quarter-long projects and their 3 classes CONTRIBUTE to the project productions - see our Projects Page for more details on all the different projects.
• Animation is one of 5 classes at Freestyle.
• Animation, Film, and Design classes are small. Animation has a maximum of 13 students because of the size of the classroom.
• On most days you will teach a particular set of Animation students during 2.5-hour AM and PM sessions:
  • Juniors on Mondays AM and PM then Wednesdays AM and PM
  • Seniors on Tuesdays AM and PM then and Fridays AM and PM
  • Due to the way our schedule interfaces with the block schedules at the traditional high schools, Thursdays have 1.5-hour AM and PM sessions; in order to keep even weekly instructional time, you will teach Juniors on one Thursday and Seniors on the next Thursday.
• Daily schedule - large blocks of time:
  • M, T, W, F => AM classes 9:30 - 12:00 then PM classes 1:00 - 3:30 (2.5 hours blocks)
  • Th => AM classes 10:05 - 11:35 then PM classes 1:00 - 2:30 (1.5 hour blocks)
• Hardware and equipment info here - you should be familiar with and/or be willing to learn how to use Film equipment/software - the Animation class uses 21.5" iMacs and Wacom Cintiq 22HD if appropriate for Animation, Adobe Creative Suite, Maya (because it's free for Education, but we could use other software). We also have a 3D Printer to play with.
• Bill Pierce, Principal at Alta Vista HS, is also the Principal of Freestyle Academy. However, Freestyle staff work and make decisions on most items concerning our program. Bill allows us to work very independently and supports us in our decisions.
• Each Teacher at Freestyle has use of a 15" MacBook Pro, 21.5" iMac, and lynda.com account as a professional resource for use at home.

What are we looking for in an Animation Teacher?

• Able to work collaboratively
• Able to communicate clearly and concisely
• Committed to our goals
• Believes in integrated, project-based learning
• Experience with project-based instruction/learning
• Experience in producing 2D and 3D Animations
• Experience in teaching how to make 2D and 3D Animations
• Able to teach screenwriting and storyboarding skills
• Technical experience with animation hardware and software including troubleshooting problems
• Able to offer new ideas to our curriculum
• Creative and broad-minded
• Passionate and knowledgeable about storytelling
• Has a good demeanor for working with high school Juniors and Seniors
• Able to work independently but within the curriculum

Requirements: minimum Bachelor's Degree, appropriate valid CA Credential and/or CTE - Arts, Media, and Entertainment. CLAD or BCLAD preferred, CBEST and NCLB certification required.

What if you don't have the right teaching credentials? Interested candidates without CA credentials who have relevant work or industry experience will be considered with the understanding that they must obtain a CA credential while teaching during the first year.