Business and IT Teacher- West Fargo High School/Horace High School

About the role

This position is split between West Fargo High School (0.6) and Horace High School (0.4).

Responsibilities

• Facilitates, inspires, and supports learner engagement, formative and authentic assessment, academic literacy, safe and compassionate learning environments, and technology integration through the coaching cycle framework to support learner learning.
• Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
• Engages with other district staff in the professional learning community process.
• Participates in all faculty or required district meetings.
• Connects and shares ideas through appropriate/applicable formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
• Utilizes effective communication skills to facilitate connection and sharing of thoughts and ideas in multiple formats with diverse audiences.
• Establishes and clearly articulates procedures and routines that promote efficiency and appropriate use of time.
• Clearly communicates the instructional purpose of each lesson and makes connections to prior learning.
• Engages learners in meaningful direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice.
• Utilizes questions, discussions, and dialogue that promote critical thinking about diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and experiences.
• Works to establish and maintain open lines of positive communication with learners and their external stakeholders concerning both academic and behavioral progress of all assigned learners.
• Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
• Empowers learners to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic learners, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
• Understands the complexities of cultural and global issues and how they relate to employee and learners' experiences.
• Partners with others to resolve potential controversy and conflict through respectful discussion.
• Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
• Utilizes creative, critical thinking skills when faced with challenges.
• Designs assessments that are aligned to the standards and learning targets and provides frequent opportunities for authentic and meaningful assessments.
• Establishes a culture that values high expectations, work ethic, and a growth mindset.
• Demonstrates knowledge of content in business education to explicitly connect key concepts for learners.
• Reasons, interprets, and analyzes information to generate new knowledge and understanding.
• Demonstrates knowledge of content and pedagogy; explicitly connecting key concepts to develop learner skills.
• Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
• Utilizes creative, critical thinking skills when faced with challenges.
• Designs assessments that are aligned to the standards and learning targets and provides frequent opportunities for authentic and meaningful assessments.
• Establishes a culture that values high expectations, work ethic, and a growth mindset.
• Demonstrates an aptitude and willingness to learn new technologies, including basic programming languages.
• Maintains communication with supervisor and director regarding general feedback, career advancement opportunities, and areas of growth opportunities.
• Utilizes district guaranteed and viable curriculum including the scope & sequence of academic and social emotional learning targets along with the defined proficiency scales.
• Plans a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the learners.
• Utilizes district behavioral plans as a backbone to promote positive learner behavior.
• Utilizes a variety of specialized teaching techniques, interventions, and assessments in order to assess and intervene with individualized programming that ensures learner progress.
• Fosters a safe and equitable learning environment.
• Utilizes the district protocol for maintaining information on learner progress.
• Utilizes knowledge of applicable federal and state laws regarding education and learners.
• Creates an environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the learners.
• Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and, in harmony with the goals, establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, projects and the like to communicate these objectives to learners.

Requirements

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and requirement satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for the role.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Qualifications

• To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and requirement satisfactorily.
• The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for the role.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Skills

• Valid ND Secondary Teaching license in Business Education or Marketing Education if already holding a secondary teaching license.
• A copy of all teaching licenses/certificates, and transcripts of all college courses completed must be submitted with the application.
• Alternative Teacher Licensing Options are available for candidates who hold a bachelor's degree with a major, minor, or minor equivalency in Business Education or Marketing Education, or bachelor's degree in related Business Administration and Marketing Management.
• Basic coding or programming skills preferred with options to complete online courses in block coding and Python.
• Prior teaching experience is preferred.
• Prior experience working in a high school setting preferred.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

Positions follows the 2025-2027 Teacher Salary Schedule

Schedule

Mon-Fri Full-time