CTE - Career Exploration Teacher @ WC Middle Leadership Academy

Position: CTE - Career Exploration Teacher @ WC Friday Middle Leadership Academy
# CTE - Career Exploration Teacher @ WC Friday Middle Leadership Academy Dallas, NC, United States##

Job Description Definition The  Career & Technical Education teacher 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’s educational needs are met; maintains appropriate records and follows all policies and procedures of the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) and Gaston County Schools.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Teaches North Carolina Standard Course of Study/Essential Standards.
• Develops and uses instructional materials suitable for verbal and/or visual instruction of students with a wide range of mental, physical, and emotional maturity.
• Provides individual and group instruction designed to meet individual needs and motivate assigned students.
• Establishes and maintains standards of student control required to achieve effective participation in all activities.
• Evaluates academic and social growth of students, and keeps appropriate records.
• Provides appropriate instruction and activities for students to meet school/district policies, goals, and objectives.
• Communicates with parents through a variety of means.
• Holds parent conferences to discuss the individual student’s progress and interpret the school program.
• Identifies student needs and cooperates with other professional staff members in assessing and helping students solve attitude and learning problems.
• Creates an effective environment for learning through functional and attractive displays such as bulletin boards, interest centers, etc.
• Maintains professional competence through in-service education activities provided by the district and/or professional growth activities and university courses.
• Participates cooperatively with the appropriate administrator to develop the method by which s/he will be evaluated in conformance with district guidelines.
• Selects and requisitions instructional materials; maintains inventory records.
• Cooperates in school-wide supervision of students during out-of-classroom activities.
• Participates in faculty and/or district committees and the sponsorship of student activities.
• Experience with Professional Learning Communities (PLCs).
• Experience with Smart board and other forms of technology.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Ability to meet the needs of all learners.
• Ability to use a variety of equipment and classroom tools such as computers, copiers, calculators, pencils, scissors, equipment for children, etc. Must be able to exert a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects.
• Ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural, or composite characteristics of data, people or things.
• Ability to speak and/or signal people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving instructions, assignments, and/or directions from superiors.
• Ability to manage a variety of correspondence, reports, handbooks, forms, lists, etc. Requires the ability to prepare correspondence, simple reports, forms, instructional materials, etc. using a prescribed format.
• Ability to record and deliver information, explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions.
• Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently in a variety of technical or professional languages.
• Ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under stressand when confronted with emergency situations.
• Ability to manage instructional time.
• Ability to manage student behavior.
• Ability to consult with parents, teachers, and the community to enhance the learning of students.
• Ability to monitor student performance.
• Ability to interact within the educational environment.
• Ability to perform non-instructional duties as assigned.
• Understands the growth and development of students.
• Requires climbing,…