Teacher – Career and Technology Education (CTE) – Law Enforcement (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 through consistent monitoring, giving immediate feedback, and making lesson adjustments as needed.
• Affirms student understanding through consistent monitoring, giving immediate feedback, and making lesson adjustments as appropriate.
• Assesses and documents 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

• Knowledge of students' development and backgrounds.
• Content-specific pedagogy that meets the needs of diverse learners using engaging instructional materials to connect prior content knowledge to new learning.
• Establishes, implements, and communicates consistent routines for effective classroom management, including clear expectations for student behavior.
• Executes and continues 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.
• Selects and requisitions appropriate books, instructional aids and other supplies and equipment; maintains inventory records and ensures equipment is in good working order.

Qualifications

• Required: Accredited High School diploma, GED, or Texas Certificate of High School Equivalency; Equivalent wage-earning experience as required by certification.
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree from accredited college or university with a major in a field related to subject being taught.
• Master's degree from accredited college or university with a major in a field related to subject being taught.
• Teaching Certification Required Valid Texas Teaching Certification in Trade & Industrial Education (requires endorsement for subject and level assigned).

Skills

• 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.
• Conferencing with teachers, parents, and students.
• Advancing students for participation in a Career and Technical Student Organization (CTSO).
• 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 Funded Time-Limited (FETL)