Teacher – Career and Technology Education (CTE) – Cosmetology (High School)

Teacher � Career & Technology Education (CTE) � Cosmetology (High School)

Reports to:  Principal
Salary: Teacher Salary Schedule
Duty Days: 187
FLSA Status: Exempt

Position Purpose 

Delivers rigorous instruction to students in order to promote intellectual, social, and physical growth; ensures that regardless of socioeconomic factors every child is prepared for accelerated learning to compete in a global economy. Provides standards-based, data-driven, differentiated instruction that engages students. Creates a safe, supportive learning environment to maximize student learning. 

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS 

Instructional Planning & Delivery 

• 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 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. 

Knowledge of Students & Student Learning 

• 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. 

Content Knowledge & Expertise 

• 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. 

Learning Environment 

• 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. 

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