Teacher – Career and Technology Education; CTE – Welding; High School

Position Type: Classroom Elementary & Secondary Teaching

Date Posted: 12/1/2025

Location: To Be Determined

Closing Date: Open Until Filled

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.
• Ensures student understanding by consistency 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.
• Reinforces and demonstrates the belief that all students have the potential to achieve at high levels; supports all students in their pursuit of social-emotional learning and academic success.
• Acquires, analyzes, and uses background information (such as familial, cultural, educational, linguistic, and developmental characteristics) to engage students in the learning process.
• Facilitates each student’s learning by employing evidence-based practices and concepts related to learning and social-emotional development.
• Understands the major concepts, key themes, multiple perspectives, assumptions, processes of inquiry, structure, and real-world applications of assigned grade-level and subject-area content.
• Designs and executes quality lessons that are consistent with the concepts of assigned discipline; aligns to state standards and demonstrates content expertise.
• Demonstrates content-specific pedagogy that meets the needs of diverse learners using engaging instructional materials to connect prior content knowledge to new learning.
• Creates a mutually respectful, collaborative, and safe community of learners by using knowledge of students’ development and backgrounds.
• Establishes, implements, and communicates consistent routines for effective classroom management, including clear expectations for student behavior.
• Leads and maintains the classroom where students are actively engaged in learning as indicated by their level of motivation and on-task 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.
• Implements both formal and informal methods of measuring student progress.
• Sets individual and group learning goals for students by using preliminary data; communicates these goals with students and families to ensure mutual understanding of expectations.
• Collects, reviews, and analyzes stat to monitor student progress on a regular basis.
• Accesses collected data to analyze and inform instructional strategies; adjusts short- and long-term plans…