Teacher, CTE Agriculture - (2026-2027) - STEM/CTE (Renewal)

1.0 FTE, 42 weeks (full-time position)

About the Role

Provide quality instruction aligned to state and federal requirements associated with Career & Technical Education in the career field of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources. Possible courses include but are not limited to: Principles of Agriculture, Food, and Natural Resources; Plant Science and Horticulture; and Food Chemistry (Science Credit).

Implement rigorous inquiry-based learning tasks to engage students in deep content of the discipline in alignment with the appropriate career cluster and pathway. Utilize a variety of assessment strategies—diagnostic, formative, and summative—to inform instructional decisions and increase student self-management of learning.

Responsibilities

• Create an educational environment that acknowledges and encourages multiple pathways to post-secondary education, including four-year degrees, two-year degrees from community and technical colleges, industry certifications, apprenticeships, and employer-based learning.
• Support MPS requirements to implement Career & Technical Education programs of study in alignment with the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) state and federal goals and reporting requirements, including:
  • Integration of academics (or liberal arts and sciences) with career and technical education programs.
  • Understanding and promoting the link between CTE at the secondary and postsecondary levels.
  • Providing students with an understanding of all aspects of an industry.
  • Developing, improving, or expanding the use of technology in CTE.
  • Attending CTE professional development as required to maintain program certification requirements.
  • Actively participating in CTE program evaluations.
  • Initiating, improving, expanding, and modernizing quality CTE programming.
  • Aligning course curriculum and assessments to Technical Skills Assessments (TSA) approved by Minnesota State and local consortium.
  • Providing activities to prepare special populations for high-skill, high-wage, or high-demand occupations that will lead to a living-wage career.
• Provide context to core academics through integrated, applied, and experiential learning (internships, guest speakers, mentoring, job shadowing, worksite tours, field trips, career readiness skills) with broad exposure to career fields and a balanced high school experience.
• Implement the Minnesota State Standards and District Graduation Requirements; apply knowledge of subject matter, classroom management techniques, current researched best practices and strategies, and students' learning styles and needs (academic and affective).
• Teach students the required curricula using strategies that foster thinking, reasoning, and problem-solving.
• Collaborate with peers to develop, plan, and implement best practices based on the needs and abilities of students.
• Assess students' developmental, cognitive, and social needs and provide developmentally appropriate instruction to meet those needs.
• Create lessons and learning environments that are safe, respectful, interesting, multicultural, gender and ability fair, and developmentally appropriate.
• Collaborate and communicate regularly with families in making educational decisions and use family and community resources to support learning.
• Acquire knowledge of the goals of the Minneapolis Public School District Improvement Agenda and site/school goals, and work to support and achieve those goals.
• Assess own instructional effectiveness through the Professional Development Process (PDP).
• Participate in ongoing and regular staff, team, and individual professional development.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited university OR equivalent knowledge gained through related industry experience.
• Prior successful experience student teaching or teaching in an urban, multicultural education setting.
• Recent successful experience teaching the use of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.
• Demonstrated continued professional development through coursework, research, peer collaboration, and/or job-embedded staff development.
• A valid Minnesota endorsement of Teacher/Coordinator Work-Based Learning in addition to a valid Minnesota Tier 2, 3, or 4 teaching license; or proof of pending approved licensure.
• Preferred MDE Teaching Licenses: 010100 Agricultural Education or 010000 Vocational Agriculture.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Vision insurance
• Paid time off
• HSA & FSA
• Retirement plan

Pay

$55,796–$116,593