Family & Consumer Sciences

Family and Consumer Science Teacher - 1.0 FTE (starting 2024/2025 school year)

2024-2025 Salary Range:  $46,813 - $68,815; or current placement on salary schedule. Benefits available. 

Description:  Teach Family and Consumer Science curriculum to help high school students learn subject matter and skills that will contribute to their development as mature, able, and responsible men and women.

• Know the subject(s) taught and how they are related to other subjects.

• Teach the subject(s) from District-approved curriculum to students.

• Assess student progress on a regular basis.

• Plan lessons in a logical sequence.

• Implement a variety of teaching methods that result in high student achievement.

• Reflect on personal teaching performance and devise ways of improving it on an ongoing basis.

• Collaborate with other educators to create a complete educational environment for students.

• Know and appreciate various cultures and the larger global society and how to establish rapport with a diverse population of students and parents.

• Know how and where to get needed information and how to educate students to seek and evaluate information.

• Recognize and respond to individual differences in students.

• Work cooperatively with colleagues, support staff and supervisors.

• Display genuine love of teaching students (enthusiasm).

• Implement inclusion techniques for special education students.

• Differentiate instruction for variety of development stages and ability levels.

• Write, speak and present well.

• Develop critical thinking skills with students.

• Relate to parents and other community members, individual and corporate, in a positive and helpful fashion.

• Know and utilize technology in the teaching and learning process and in communications.

• Implement conflict management strategies for both adults and students.

• Take all necessary and reasonable precautions to effectively supervise classrooms and hallways, protect equipment, materials and other facilities as needed.

• Attend staff meetings and serve on staff or district committees as required.

• Regularly maintain on file such seating charts, records, materials and current lesson plans to assist a substitute in maintaining the instructional program.

• Keep confidential all matters pertaining to individual students or the school as required by law or dictated by professional ethics.

• Meet and instruct assigned classes in the locations and at the time designated.

• Be available to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day when requested and required under reasonable conditions.

• Perform such other duties as may from time to time be required by the principal or superintendent.

Qualifications:   Montana secondary teaching license with Family & Consumer Science endorsement (23S FCS) or the ability to be certified by the start of the 2024-2025 school year.  5 years teaching experience preferred.