Hybrid Agriculture Teacher (2025-2026) en Horry County Schools

Job Title:      Agriculture Teacher
Supervisor:  Principal
Terms of Employment:  246 days

Job Summary: 
To plan and conduct instructional programs designed primarily to prepare and train youths for gainful employment or entrepreneurship in agricultural careers following high school or college; to perform ancillary functions in support of these instructional programs in agriculture; to assist in other school activities as assigned.

Essential Duties: 

1. Provides agricultural instruction that is realistic in terms of current and future job specifications.
2. Utilizes a variety of teaching methods which will promote the attainment of desirable goals by each student.
3. Arranges sufficient contact with the work community so that the technical competency of the teachers will be maintained.
4. Participates in the development of instructional materials.
5. Participates in curriculum development for the specific education assignment and for the total program of the schools.
6. Participates in studies of the needs of youths in the school community.
7. Seeks the assistance of resource persons who are informed about and responsible for the instruction of students with various mental, physical, educational, and other special needs.
8. Assists in placement of students.
9. Cooperates with local career counseling and guidance personnel.
10. Assists all agricultural education students to make informed decisions regarding personal occupational goals in agriculture.
11. Assists all agricultural education students to develop personal training programs appropriate to their occupational goals in agriculture.
12. Provides related instruction with field, shop, laboratory, cooperative work, or other occupational experience that is appropriate to the career objectives of the student and as outlined within state course standards.
13. Assists all agricultural education students to plan, develop, and conduct agricultural experience activities appropriate to their occupational goals.
14. Supervises the agricultural experience activities of all agricultural education students through on-site visitation wherever the activities occur by observation and conference with students, employers, and parents.
15. Using the vehicle of FFA, assists students to develop those attitudes and skills in citizenship, leadership, and human relations which will contribute to their personal and occupational success.
16. Actively participates in professional improvement activities including meetings and workshops called by the district, the State Department of Education.
17. Evaluates students’ progress toward achieving their occupational goals and reports to parents and district administration.
18. Maintains an environment which is conductive to learning with particular attention to safety practices, good housekeeping, appropriate instructional aides, textbooks, supplies and equipment, and student behavior.
19. Follows up on graduates of agricultural education programs and maintains records of their placement and occupational or education successes.
20. Performs basic attendance accounting procedures.
21. Prepares annual budget; with administration and orders supplies, instructional materials and equipment according to district procedures; maintains inventory records as required.
22. Performs other duties of student activity supervision as requested by the school administration.
23. Cooperates with community organizations.
24. Keeps school counselors and administrators informed concerning the educational needs,career opportunities, and instructional programs available to rural youth.

1. Fully meets special qualifications for teachers of agriculture and requirements pertinent to the teaching credential held as required by South Carolina State Department of Education.
2. Establish schools agriculture education advisory committee.
3. Take into consideration the recommendations of the schools agriculture education advisory committee.

• Physically capable of frequently lifting or moving up to 40 pounds;
• Specific vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to focus;
• Ability to sit and stand for extended periods of time;
• Manual dexterity for the purpose of using a telephone and data entry;
• Read a computer screen and printed material with or without vision aids;
• Hear and understand speech at normal levels and on the telephone; and
• Speak in audible tones so that others may understand clearly in person and on the telephone.

Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.   

Pay Grade: 28,29,31,32,35


This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee.  The employee will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other related duties as assigned by the appropriate administrator or supervisor.  Horry County Schools reserves the right to update, revise or change this job description and related duties at any time without prior notice.