CTE Teacher

Reports to:                   Building Principal

Terms of Employment:   10 Months

Salary:                         State Salary Schedule

ELIGIBILITY:

Must have or be eligible to hold a North Carolina Professional Educator’s License in one of the following areas:

• Technology Engineering & Design teaching license (820)
• Business, Finance, and Information Technology Education license (760)
• Information Technology License (765)

SUMMARY:

Under the general direction of a principal, provides leadership in an educational environment that encourages and nurtures learning for all students. Provides supervision to students in a variety of school related settings, monitors and evaluates student outcomes, develops, selects or modifies lesson plans to ensure all student needs are met, and maintains appropriate records and follows all policies and procedures of NCDPI and CMS. Provides quality standards-based instruction in the area of Business Education; assesses and encourages student progress, manages an effective learning environment to maximize student achievement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Demonstrate knowledge of subject matter; center instruction on high expectations for student achievement and demonstrate effective teaching practices
• Plan, organize, and teach a competency-based CTE program within the Computer Science, Business, and Information Technology fields.
• Creates and plans effective curriculum-based projects and activities correlated with a specific construction concept in mind
• Conducts ongoing assessment of student growth and modifies instructional methods to fit student’s individual needs.
• Continues to participate in professional development to stay knowledgeable of current developments in CTE. This includes but not limited to attending seminars, workshops, and/or participating in professional learning communities (PLC).
• Prepares instructional materials aligned with curriculum standards, maintains equipment, supplies, and other resources and maintains inventory records in accordance with district policies and procedures
• Coordinate CTE Student Organization activities for local, regional, state and/or national competition
• Attend District PLC meetings as scheduled
• Work cooperatively with the CTE teachers and building administrators in staffing and scheduling decisions
• Demonstrate effective classroom and computer lab management
• Participates in field trips to post-secondary institutes, worksites, businesses and hands-on workshops
• Foster and manage a safe, positive, and respectful learning environment for the purpose of promoting effective student behavior and success
• Assist in development of and participate in activities designed to promote an innovative business and technology program.
• Communicate and collaborate with parents and the school community for the purpose of fostering individual student success and growth while engaging the families in the instructional program
• Develop community and industry partnerships for students.
• Demonstrates techniques to students as a group and one-on-one, helping them to complete lessons, assignments, projects, activities and evaluations.
• Provides students with clear expectations, continual feedback, and logical consequences.
• Provides students with opportunities to expand their skills and knowledge base.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS OR STANDARDS REQUIRED TO PERFORM ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS
 

Physical Requirements: Must be able to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, typewriters, calculators, pencils, scissors, and equipment for children with special needs, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Due to amount of time spent standing and/or walking, physical requirements are consistent with those for Light Work.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics (whether similar to or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments and/or directions from superiors.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc., using prescribed format.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagrammatic form; and to deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in variety of technical or professional languages including medical, legal and counseling terminology.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize mathematical formulas; to add and subtract; multiply and divide; utilize decimals and percentages; and to apply the principles of descriptive statistics, statistical inference and statistical theory.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using office equipment.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items such as office equipment and hand tools. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stress and when confronted with emergency situations.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to communicate via telephone.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
 

• Ability to constantly monitor the safety and well-being of students, particularly when student is participating in an inclusive activity.
• Ability to motivate students.
• Ability to maintain a clean and orderly environment. Ability to perform general clerical duties.
• Ability to maintain order and discipline in a classroom. Ability to operate common office machines.
• Ability to maintain basic files and records.
• Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships as necessitates by work assignments.

DISCLAIMER
 

The preceding job description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees to this job.