Advanced Manufacturing Instructor

Greater Lawrence Technical School•Andover, MA

4d•Onsite

About The Position

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. 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.

Requirements

A high school diploma is required.
Valid Massachusetts Chapter 74 Teaching License in Machine Tool Technology (-14) is required.
State-issued driver’s license is required.
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.
Ability to connect domain-specific knowledge to broad and relevant real-world contexts and issues.
Ability to collaborate with other others using contagious enthusiasm, passion, and compassion.
Ability to reflect on their processes and products to gain deeper insights for possible improvement.
Ability to create goals for themselves that push them towards their best teaching, based upon reflection and analysis.
Ability to be flexible in their thinking to allow for creativity and innovation.
Ability to engage in iterative processes of researching, experimenting, deducing, improving and re-evaluating.

Nice To Haves

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 vocational teaching area is preferred.

Responsibilities

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.