Teacher – Career and Technology Education (CTE) – Engineering (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.
• Makes lesson adjustments as appropriate.
• Affirms student understanding by consistent monitoring, giving immediate feedback, and making lesson adjustments as needed.
• Affirms student mastery of curriculum objectives and student progress using frequent, appropriate, on-going, and multiple assessment tools; employs interventions and formal/informal assessment procedures, including standardized tests, formative assessments, performance tasks, enrichments, and observations.
• Instructs students in the proper use and care of professional equipment, technology, and other professional materials.
• Prepares students for industry-based certification exams within the program focus, in accordance with CTE guidelines and administers industry-based certification exams to all students and provides remediation to those who were not successful.

Requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university required; Major in Education or a field related to subject being taught preferred.
• Teaching Certification Required OR Valid Texas Teaching Certification in Mathematics/Physical Science/Engineering; Science, Technology, Engineering, & Mathematics (STEM); Industrial Arts; Industrial Technology; or Technology Education.
• Acceptance in an approved Alternative Certification Program (ACP) and have passed the required prerequisite examinations for subject area and grade-level.
• Two years (or more) of full-time teaching experience.

Skills

• 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.
• Planning and providing professional learning; lesson planning with multiple teachers.
• Talking to others to convey information effectively.
• Organizing and coordinating work, and working effectively in collaborative teams.
• Effectively conferencing with teachers, parents, and students.
• Advocating for students and securing employment for students.
• Using software to access databases, email, create spreadsheets, and do word processing.
• Communicating effectively, both oral and written forms.
• Engaging in self-evaluation with regard to performance and professional growth.
• Establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with others contacted in the course of work.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

Teacher Salary

Schedule

Fully Remote