CTE - Middle Grades Career Exploration Teacher @ WC Friday Middle Leadership Academy at Gaston County Schools BU

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 Smartboard© 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 stress

and 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, stooping, kneeling, crouching, hearing, reaching, standing, lifting, walking, grasping, and talking. use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms.

• Requires the ability to talk and hear: (Talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words. Hearing:

perceiving nature of sounds by ear.).

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth

perception, and the ability to adjust focus. 

• Must possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with record processes, and do extensive reading and research.

• Must be able to physically perform the basic life operational functions of reaching, walking, standing, talking, lifting,

hearing, and repetitive motions.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or up to

10 pounds of force constantly.

• Must possess the visual acuity to prepare data, work with record processes, and do extensive reading and research.

• Must be physically able to operate a variety of equipment including computers, copiers, etc.

Minimum Education and Experience

• North Carolina Teacher Certification in Career and Technical Education or eligible for licensure.

This Position Reports Directly to:  Principal 

Classification: Exempt

Salary: North Carolina Teacher’s Salary Schedule (www.ncpublicschools.org) 

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 perform this job.

If offered a position, prospective employees must pass a required health exam, criminal records check, and drug test.

Created 06/2025 RParker