This is the professional working in secondary schools and specialised art and design schools who is responsible for guiding the visual arts and design teaching and learning of students in their charge. They may teach arts subjects to lower secondary students, upper secondary students specialising in the arts or students doing medium-level and higher vocational training in the arts.
This means they teach a subject, use a specific teaching method, assess and certify the knowledge obtained by students and, in most cases, provide tutorials or personalised supervision of each student. The subjects they teach may include gilding and polychrome, artistic woodwork, artistic bookbinding, photography and reproduction processes, model-making, engraving and printing techniques, jewellery and costume jewellery techniques and pattern design and dressmaking techniques.

• Equip students with the skills that enable them to learn the material taught.
• Ensure students' personal development.
• Coordinate with other teachers teaching the same students to develop and tailor the curriculum to these students' needs and characteristics.
• Monitor global student development and put in place the measures required to improve learning based on the school's education plan.
• Assess students according to guidelines and the school¿s education plan and take decisions about progress to following years.
• Perform any other duties that may be established by the Department of Education or specified in the school's guidance and tutoring plan.
• Anticipate learning problems that might arise and share all the information required to work in coordination with other teachers.
• Be the tutor for a group and guide its members to achieve better personal growth, social integration and employment opportunities.

Regulated training and graduates

For the exercise of this job it is necessary to be at willingness of the Master's Degree in Teacher Training for Compulsory Secondary and High School Education, Professional Training and Language Teaching.

In addition, the Department of Education requires candidates for a vacancy or supply post to pass an examination that certifies their proficiency to teach specified visual arts and design credits on vocational training courses.
The examination is generally held twice a year, usually in the first and third terms of the school year. It is both theoretical and practical and is divided into two parts. The first is an examination about conceptual and procedural content and the second is a practical exercise in teaching and classroom management tasks and processes.
People who have six months' experience in teaching jobs in the same speciality in state schools reporting to the Department of Education are exempt from this examination.

• Grau: Educació primària
• Grau: Pedagogia
• Grau: Belles arts
• Grau: Arts i disseny

Complementary training

• Level C in Catalan.
• Teaching Proficiency Certificate (CAP) or Educational Qualification Certificate (CQP) if they do not have an official teacher training master's qualification.

They should also recycle their artistic knowledge by doing specialised courses in the art subject they teach: for example, pottery, conservation and restoration of archaeological, pictorial or sculptural objects, technical, colour and art drawing, interior design, product design, media, etc.

Other specific skills

In addition to speaking and writing Catalan and Spanish correctly, it is also recommended that their English is good enough to understand documents written in the language.
This professional also needs to have:

• Advanced user knowledge of IT: office programs, email and Internet browsers.
• Knowledge of virtual learning platforms or e-learning, for example Moodle, and content management systems.

A visual arts and design teacher may work in private or state secondary schools. In former case, they should apply for those schools that have vacancies. In the latter case they can opt to become a supply teacher or take a public examination held by the educational authorities, which in Catalonia is the Department of Education, to become a tenured civil servant.

Candidates must meet a number of requirements to sit the exam including:

• Have at least a university qualification equivalent to the former 6-year licentiate degree or the current 4-year degree or a doctorate in any subject.
• Be a Spanish national, a national of other European Union Member States or a national of any State to which Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament on the free movement of workers is applicable.
• Not be a tenured civil servant, trainee civil servant or awaiting any appointment to the same body which they seek to join.
• Pass the proficiency examination.

Planning and organisation: Level 2

Creativity: Level 2

Empathy: Level 3

Communication: Level 3

Flexibility and change management: Level 2

Artistic

People who show an interest in the artistic field enjoy expressing ideas and feelings through the language of art A creative spirit and the motivation to convey concepts or emotions are inherent to this interest. This field includes all the activities that are oriented towards creating artistic products in their various forms: works that are musical, cinematographic or visual in nature, as well as dance and related arts.

Training

People who work in the field of training are interested in transmitting knowledge, responsibilities and values through learning techniques and educational processes, with a view to helping others develop their skills and abilities. Activities that are specific to this field include prior assessment of the student's characteristics and needs, design of the teaching materials, as well as monitoring and support during the learning process.

Music teacher

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• Work hours

  Working hours in a state school are 37.5 per week, divided flexibly between 9 am and 2 pm and then between 3 pm and 5 pm from Monday to Friday. They are set by the collective agreement which covers the person concerned. However, it is also common to work half-days or a third of a day depending on the number of students and workload at the school. Working hours are specified at the beginning of the school year.
  Working hours in a private school are subject to the school¿s own rules, although normally they will consist of 40 hours divided between the morning and afternoon from Monday to Friday.

• Salary

  Remuneration is calculated based on the collective agreement covering the person concerned and depends on length of service as a teacher. However, salaries are between €30,000 and €40,000 gross per annum.

• Professional category

  Technician