2023-24 Orchestra Teacher Opening!
We have an open position for an elementary orchestra teacher in our Mt. Blue Regional School District starting in our next school year, 23-24 in Farmington, Maine. Our students are motivated and eager to learn, and we want you on our team!
We currently have an outstanding long-term substitute teacher in place for the 23-24 school year.
Our amazing longtime orchestra teacher Nancy Beacham will be celebrating her well deserved retirement.
This is a very supportive community and school district - with great colleagues and administration all around. You'll find our music department very helpful and friendly!
Information about the position:
The position is for an elementary orchestra teacher. (This position is all and only orchestra). Most of the teaching is done at two of our district's elementary schools: Cascade Brook School, and Cape Cod Hill School. The position also includes some time teaching at our Mt. Blue Middle School. Overall the position is teaching orchestra classes from grades 3-6. The program has this position teaching at two elementary schools include teaching the half-year grade 3 exploratory violin program and the full year grade 4 and 5 orchestra programs. The position also includes co-teaching gr. 6 orchestra with Steve Muise at Mt. Blue Middle School. All of the building in grounds in the Mt. Blue School District are up to date, and pleasant to teach in. Please feel free to look around this website to get a feel for our orchestra program, we want you to be a part of it!
Link to the application for the orchestra position: https://www.applitrack.com/mtbluersd/OnlineApp/default.aspx?Category=Elementary+School+Teaching&AppliTrackJobId=368&AppliTrackLayoutMode=detail&AppliTrackViewPosting=1
Information about our community:
The Mt. Blue Regional School District is made up of 10 towns surrounding and including Farmington, Maine. Nestled in the foothills and lakes of Western Maine, Farmington is the county seat, and is the home of the local and district courthouses, Franklin Memorial Hospital and the University of Maine at Farmington. It's an art-rich community with strongly supported music, theater and art programs in the public schools. There are opportunities (paid and community) for string players in our area. Nearby orchestral playing opportunities include: Colby College Symphony, Midcoast Symphony, Augusta Symphony, Bangor Symphony and the Portland Symphony. Our communty also supports local theater with the Sandy River Players, a community chorus at the University of Maine at Farmington, a monthly bluegrass jam, fiddle jams, live music and music festivals at the Narrow Gauge Theater, contradances and more. Many students participate in after-school music lessons and dance classes as well. Mt. Blue High School is also interwoven with the Foster Tech Center, offering a wide diversity of opportunities for students. Mt. Blue students also excel in academics and athletics. There are so many members of orchestra that are on the odds-on perennial favorite to be State Champion Nordic Ski Team, that a parent coined the phrase "Norchestra!" The Mt. Blue area is a great place for families, with our local in-town, member owned ski mountain, Titcomb Mountain, beautiful lakes including Clearwater, Wilson, Porter, and Webb Lakes, amazing access to outdoor activities and short drives to major Western Maine Ski Mountains, Sugarloaf, Saddleback and Sunday River. The are hiking trails from short riverside strolls to 4,000 footers all close by.
There is a regional symphonic youth orchestra, MMYO "Mid Maine Youth Orchestra" that rehearses here at Mt. Blue and in Oakland.
We hope you consider joining our team!
Links to learn more about our community:
Farmington Chamber of Commerce
Mt Blue Regional School District Main Page
Local Hiking Trails at Maine Trail Finder
Univeristy of Maine at Farmington, Arts and Culture
The Maine Music Educators Association
Farmington, Maine - a great location! Close to Portland, one of the foodiest cities around: Bon Appetit magazine named Portland “America's Foodiest Small Town” and The Food Network named the city as one of its top five “Most Delicious Destinations.”! Close to Boston, Maine is hugged by New Hampshire plus 2 beautiful Canadian Provinces, Québec and New Brunswisk. In about a 4 hour drive, you can have a true European style weekend in Québec City.
