Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. K12, a Stride Company, provides families with high-quality, personalized online education through its partner school, Ohio Virtual Academy. The Career Tech Teacher for grades 6-8 delivers engaging online instruction, supports students and families, monitors academic progress, and develops students’ career and post-secondary readiness through individualized and project-based learning.
Responsibilities
- Provides rich and engaging synchronous and asynchronous learning experiences for students
- Commitment to personalizing learning for all students
- Demonstrates a belief in all students’ ability to succeed and meet high expectations
- Differentiates instruction based on student level of mastery
- Augments course content according to prescribed policies and procedures using appropriate asynchronous and synchronous tools under guidance from principal and coach
- Maintains grade book ensuring student academic integrity, makes student placement and promotion decisions, and alerts administrators to concerns about student performance and progress
- Prepares students for high stakes standardized tests
- Understands that a primary responsibility is to establish and maintain positive rapport with families and regularly communicate with and responds to students and learning coaches/parents in a timely manner
- Supports learning coaches/parents with student curricular and instructional issues, as well as basic troubleshooting in a virtual classroom environment that is in line with academy policies and procedures
- Travels as required (on average once per month and/or up to 25% of the time) for face-to-face professional development, student testing, and as required by school
- Maintains and effectively applies knowledge of the State, National, and Industry Specific learning standards
- Develops effective instructional tools and strategies to supplement and enhance provided curriculum
- Collaborates regularly with the school and national professional learning community
- Supports a project-based learning model
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- Active CTE state teaching certification OR Active high school grade level state teaching certification with CTE Validation
- Ability to clear required background check(s)
- Ability to work collaboratively with other teachers to interpret and produce numeric, tabular, and graphic representations of student data, and use it to drive instructional decisions
- Receptive to receiving coaching on a regular basis with administrators and teacher trainers
- Ability to embrace change and adapt to ensure excellent student outcomes
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Outlook, Word; PowerPoint
- Ability to rapidly learn and adapt to new technologies and teaching platforms
- Must reside in Ohio
- Experience working with proposed age group
- Experience supporting adults and children in the use of technology
- Experience teaching in an online (virtual) and/or in a brick-and-mortar environment
- Experience with project-based learning
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- STRS Retirement
- Tuition Reimbursement
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