What are the responsibilities and job description for the Advanced Manufacturing Instructor position at Greater Lawrence Technical School (MA)?
Reporting to the Career Technical Education Coordinator, the Vocational Teacher’s role is to help students learn career area subject matter in accordance with educational frameworks and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able and responsible men and women.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: The essential functions or duties listed below are intended only as illustration of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.
- Teaches district approved curriculum; prepares lesson plans accordingly.
- Meets and instructs assigned classes in the locations and at the times designated.
- Plans a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests and abilities of the students.
- Creates a classroom environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interest of the students.
- Encourages students to set and maintain standards of classroom behavior and work ethic when working on special projects.
- Guides the learning process toward the achievement of curriculum goals and __in harmony with the goals__establishes clear objectives for all lessons, units, projects and the like to communicate these objectives to students.
- Ensures accuracy and best practices for compliance of organizational standards.
- Keeps records and prepares progress reports.
- Keeps current in discipline and teaching techniques.
- Participates in professional development and remains current in the field.
- Any other relative teaching duties as assigned.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
Supervises students and oversees paraprofessionals for instructional purposes.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE: A high school diploma is required; a college degree and prior teaching experience, preferably in a vocational high school setting or any combination of education and work experience. Five years of recent (within the last seven years) of full-time employment experience directly related to the vocational teaching area is preferred.
CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS: Valid Massachusetts Chapter 74 Teaching License in Machine Tool Technology (9-14) is required.
A state-issued driver’s license is required.
SKILLS AND ABILITY: (If applicable to instructional area).
The ideal teacher will be:
Pedagogically agile; able to model learning.- Reflective and enthusiastic about exploring new approaches to pedagogy.
- Dedicated to improving one’s own practice.
- Comfortable with learning technology.
- Committed to the Core Values of Growth Mindset, High Expectations, Supportive Environment, and Life-long Learning.
- Comfortable with pushing themselves outside of their comfort levels to achieve new levels of learning.
Ability to:
Use multiple personal and domain-specific perspectives to problem solve.- Connect domain-specific knowledge to broad and relevant real-world contexts and issues.
- Collaborate with others using contagious enthusiasm, passion, and compassion.
- Reflect on their processes and products to gain deeper insights for possible improvement.
- Create goals for themselves that push them towards their best teaching, based upon reflection and analysis.
- Be flexible in their thinking to allow for creativity and innovation.
- Engage in iterative processes of researching, experimenting, deducing, improving, and re-evaluating.
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.
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand and talk or hear.
- The employee is frequently required to walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds; for example, building materials, school supplies, and books.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, such as to read handwritten or typed material, and the ability to adjust focus.
- The position requires the individual to meet multiple demands from several people and interact with the public and other staff.
- The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud.
- Must be able to work in fluctuating weather conditions.