Teacher – Career and Technology Education (CTE) –Education and Training (High School)

About the role

Delivers rigorous instruction to students in order to promote intellectual, social, and physical growth; ensures that regardless of socioeconomic factors every child is prepared for accelerated learning to compete in a global economy.

Responsibilities

• Teaches knowledge and skill concepts in accordance with the required Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, District curricula, and industry standards.
• Designs clear, well organized, sequential lessons that build on students’ prior knowledge; provides opportunities for enrichment as well as differentiations and project-based learning to provide for collaboration, creative thinking, and extended interaction among students.
• Creates developmentally appropriate, standards-driven lessons that reflect evidence-based best practices.
• Develops lessons to meet the needs of diverse learners, adapting methods as needed.
• Communicates clearly and accurately; engages students in a manner that encourages students’ persistence and best efforts.
• Promotes complex, higher-order thinking, leading class discussions and activities that provide opportunities for deeper learning.
• Maintains student understanding by consistency monitoring, giving immediate feedback, and making lesson adjustments as appropriate.
• Affirms and demonstrates the belief that all students have the potential to achieve at high levels; supports all students in their pursuit of social-emotional learning and academic success.
• Acquires, analyzes, and uses background information (such as familial, cultural, educational, linguistic, and developmental characteristics) to engage students in the learning process.
• Facilitates each student’s learning by employing evidence-based practices and concepts related to learning and social-emotional development.
• Understands the major concepts, key themes, multiple perspectives, assumptions, processes of inquiry, structure, and real-world applications of assigned grade-level and subject-area content.
• Designs and executes quality lessons that are consistent with the concepts of assigned discipline; aligns to state standards and demonstrates content expertise.
• Demonstrates content-specific pedagogy that meets the needs of diverse learners using engaging instructional materials to connect prior content knowledge to new learning.
• Creates a mutually respectful, collaborative, and safe community of learners by using knowledge of students’ development and backgrounds.
• Establishes, implements, and communicates consistent routines for effective classroom management, including clear expectations for student behavior.
• Learns and maintains the classroom where students are actively engaged in learning as indicated by their level of motivation and on-task behavior.
• Selects and requisitions appropriate books, instructional aids and other supplies and equipment; maintains inventory records and ensures equipment is in good working order.
• Implements both formal and informal methods of measuring student progress.
• Sets individual and group learning goals for students by using preliminary data; communicates these goals with students and families to ensure mutual understanding of expectations.
• Collections, reviews, and analyzes data to monitor student progress on a regular basis.
• Accesses collected data to analyze and inform instructional strategies; adjusts short- and long-term plans accordingly.
• Administers and proctors pertinent course assessments as well as industry certification exams specific to the program focus in accordance with FWISD CTE policies.
• Serves as an advisor of a co-curricular activities and involves students with professional associations affiliated with their career pathway of interest.
• Makes sure students understand the requirements of future coursework and are familiar with the various programs of study opportunities at feeder campuses and across the district.
• Maintains classroom and online instruction, activities, grades and projects.
• Reflects on teaching practice to improve instructional effectiveness; engages in continuous professional learning to gain knowledge/skills to refine professional judgment.
• Collaborates with colleagues, including colleagues at feeder campuses, and exhibits self-awareness in interpersonal interactions.
• Invites constructive feedback from peers and administrators.
• Sets up and maintains appropriate student-centered discipline techniques and effective classroom management strategies to maximize student learning and time-on-task; ensures that student conduct conforms to the school’s standards and District’s policies.
• Works with counselors and students to verify that schedules, 6-year plans, and portfolios are updated and accurate to ensure students are on track to meeting goals and graduation requirements.
• Performs preventive maintenance on tools and equipment and ensures equipment is in safe operating condition.
• Follows established safety procedures and techniques to perform job duties including lifting and climbing, drills and lockdowns; operates tools and equipment according to established safety procedures.
• Corrects unsafe conditions in work area and promptly reports any conditions that are not immediately correctable to supervisor.
• Observes student behavior outside the classroom at designated times, between classes, and at assigned duty stations; takes necessary action when appropriate.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited college or university required; Major in Education or a field related to subject being taught preferred.
• Teaching Certification Required Valid Texas Teaching Certification in Technology Applications, Technology Education, or Trade and Industrial Education (with appropriate work experience); OR Acceptance in an approved Alternative Certification Program (ACP) and have passed the required prerequisite examinations for subject area and grade-level.
• At least five years of teaching experience preferred; Experience working with diverse student populations preferred.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of federal and state laws and guidelines, and District policies and procedures regarding education and students.
• Knowledge of current CTE teaching methods and educational pedagogy, as well as differentiation of instruction based upon student learning styles.
• Knowledge of assigned content facts, concepts, theories, and principles that are being taught, as well as industry standards that lead to licensure for careers or post-secondary professions.
• Knowledge of data information systems, data analysis, and the formulation of action plans.
• Knowledge of how to actively advise and effectively prepare students for participation in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO).
• Knowledge of equipment and software programs used within the field.
• Skills in planning and providing professional learning; lesson planning with multiple teachers.
• Ability to provide information and assist office personnel, parents, and students related to District programs and activities.
• Ability to organize and coordinate work, and work effectively in collaborative teams.
• Ability to effectively conference with teachers, parents, and students.
• Ability to establish and maintain community relationships to help improve programs and secure employment for students.
• Ability to use software to access databases, email, create spreadsheets, and do word processing.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written forms.
• Ability to engage in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.

Skills & Abilities

• Knowledge of current CTE teaching methods and educational pedagogy, as well as differentiation of instruction based upon student learning styles.
• Knowledge of assigned content facts, concepts, theories, and principles that are being taught, as well as industry standards that lead to licensure for careers or post-secondary professions.
• Knowledge of data information systems, data analysis, and the formulation of action plans.
• Knowledge of how to actively advise and effectively prepare students for participation in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO).
• Knowledge of equipment and software programs used within the field.
• Skills in planning and providing professional learning; lesson planning with multiple teachers.
• Ability to provide information and assist office personnel, parents, and students related to District programs and activities.
• Ability to organize and coordinate work, and work effectively in collaborative teams.
• Ability to effectively conference with teachers, parents, and students.
• Ability to establish and maintain community relationships to help improve programs and secure employment for students.
• Ability to use software to access databases, email, create spreadsheets, and do word processing.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both oral and written forms.
• Ability to engage in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth.
• Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

Teacher Salary Schedule

Schedule

187 FLSA Status: Exempt