Family Consumer Science Teacher

Job Summary

Comstock Park is seeking a Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) teacher to instruct students in vital life skills such as nutrition, culinary arts, personal finance, child development, and family resource management.

If you have a passion for this position but hold a different secondary endorsement and are willing to pursue an accelerated pathway or test out to add the KH or MA endorsement, we encourage you to apply and discuss alternative certification routes with us.

• Curriculum Delivery:
  Plan and execute engaging, hands‑on lessons aligned with the State of Michigan Family and Consumer Sciences Standards.
• Maintain Compliance:
  Deliver state‑aligned health and reproductive health curricula in accordance with Michigan Department of Education guidelines and district policy.
• Life Skills Instruction:
  Teach students how to evaluate the interrelationships between economic systems, consumer behavior, and personal budgeting.
• Classroom Management:
  Foster a safe, respectful learning environment (especially in lab settings like kitchens), encouraging student engagement and independent living skills.
• Assessment:
  Develop formative and summative assessments to track and adjust student outcomes.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Education:
  
  Bachelor’s degree in Education, Family and Consumer Sciences, or a related field.
• Required Certifications & Endorsements
  • KH Endorsement:
    Qualifies you to teach departmentalized human services and consumer science courses.
  • Standard Teaching Certificate:
    Requires a bachelor’s degree in education or Family and Consumer Sciences and passing the MTTC (Michigan Test for Teacher Certification).
  • CTE Requirements:
    Many Michigan districts require or heavily prefer a Career and Technical Education (CTE) certificate. If you do not have this, districts may require you to obtain an Annual Career Authorization, which typically requires 4,000 hours of recent industry experience.
• Professional
  
  Skills:
  
  Strong organizational skills, technological proficiency for lesson delivery, and excellent interpersonal abilities to communicate with parents and school staff.

Ability to apply knowledge of current research and theory to instructional program; ability to plan and implement lessons based on district and school objectives and the needs and abilities of students to whom assigned. Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships with students, peers and parents; skill in oral and written communication. Ability to operate a personal computer and related software.

Required:

a valid Michigan (secondary) teaching certificate. We will work with individuals that do not possess a Michigan Teaching Certificate but have a Bachelor’s Degree in Family and Consumer Sciences or a related field for certification. The final candidate will be required at their cost to furnish the district with a current Michigan State Police and FBI criminal records Live Scan check prior to our recommendation to hire.

Comstock Park Public Schools are committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex, age, national origin, and disability in all its programs and activities.