Automotive Instructor – Salem High School, Salem Public Schools SY2024-2025

About Salem Public Schools, where belonging leads to opportunity.

Salem is a small, diverse city with a proud maritime and immigrant history. Salem Public Schools is an urban public school district enrolling nearly 4,000 students across our 11 schools. Our vision is to ensure that all students will be locally engaged, globally connected, and fully prepared to thrive in a diverse and changing world. We hold dear our core values of belonging, equity, and opportunity in everything we do. Over the next three years (2023-2026), we are committed to the work outlined by the four core priorities in our strategic plan: 1) Elevate Learning; 2) Empower Educators; 3) Center Belonging; and 4) Strengthen Our Foundation. We seek individuals who are passionate about urban education and understand the urgency of improving student achievement for all students, regardless of ability, economic status, gender/gender identity, language, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, or other backgrounds. Applicants who have experience working in urban schools and settings and are bilingual are strongly encouraged to apply.

Job Description:

Salem Public Schools is hiring a Career and Technical Education Teacher (CTE) for its Automotive Technology program. The CTE Teacher is responsible for providing instructional services in the designated areas of expertise (Automotive) and assisting high schools with career path planning that is responsive to industry and appropriate program needs.

Essential Functions:

• Adheres to the facility, daily and school schedule.
• Prepares, in advance, for each class, implements and delivers daily lesson plans, instructional curriculum, developing employable vocational technology skills, and leading to industry recognized certification.
• Ensure students obtain National Industry Certifications through instruction and assessment.
• Designs lesson plans and collaborate with other staff to design and emphasize integrated activities for the purpose of developing academic skills appropriate for career.
• Communicates student behavioral, vocational progress and information to the CTE Director on a timely and consistent basis.
• Participates and contributes to the Professional Learning Community process by consistently communicating information, being prepared, and demonstrating behaviors that reflect continuous improvement and teamwork.
• Tracks student attendance, maintains and provides student grades (weekly and exit) for the purpose of providing documentation of student progress.
• Adheres to school policies pertaining to grading, posting students’ grades and quarterly reports.
• Develops, implements, and maintains effective classroom management strategies for the purpose of ensuring a safe and secure, clean, positive and inviting learning environment.
• Conducts large and small group instruction as well as individual instruction when needed.
• Maintains a three-day supply of emergency lesson plans that follow the teaching format and define student learning objectives and evaluation procedures for the purpose of ensuring instructional continuity.
• Ensures the vocational building is maintained in a safe and orderly fashion. Develops operational procedures (i.e., shop safety, security, tool, etc.) and documents violations for the purpose of ensuring shop safety.
• Maintains a daily and monthly inventory of all supplies, materials, and equipment to ensure all items are accounted for. Utilizes a safety data sheet when applicable.

What You’ll Bring:

We are looking for candidates who have diverse backgrounds and experiences, are inspired by our mission and are highly motivated to change children’s lives through education. You’ll be right at home here if you are a reflective practitioner who values collaboration with colleagues and pushes yourself, your work and the people around you to the next level. We expect our SPS employees to:

• Hold a deep commitment to students and families and value diversity - The SPS community is vibrant, diverse in background, ethnicity, language, and perspective. You embrace and affirm the backgrounds of all members of the SPS community and view our diversity as a powerful resource that supports us each in learning and doing our best work.
• Hold high expectations for yourself, students, and colleagues – You see potential in all, especially our SPS students, and maintain high expectations for achievement, while providing the support necessary to meet that bar. You hold yourself to high expectations, modeling SPS values and seeking opportunities to continuously improve.
• Build authentic, caring relationships with colleagues, students, and families – You build strong relationships across students, families, and colleagues that are collaborative in nature and contribute to the individual and collective success of SPS. You partner with families and colleagues to make decisions in the best interest of students and learning.
• Embrace feedback – You are a reflective practitioner who learns from mistakes and challenges and uses them as opportunities for professional development. You model persistence and growth mindset and thrive in a culture of feedback.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma required; Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Massachusetts CTE Automotive Technology Certification required.
• Current ASE certification in at least three areas of automotive technology preferred.
• At least five years of automotive industry experience and the skills and knowledge sufficient to deliver a comprehensive vocational training curriculum.
• Electric & Hybrid Automotive experience preferred
• Knowledge of: Vocational instructional strategies and how they can be employed to deliver curriculum and assess student learning, various methodologies and research related to learning and working with at-risk, post-secondary, high school aged youth.
• Effective communication techniques that enable positive and productive learning environments.
• Must be able to pass CORI and fingerprinting checks.
• Bilingual candidates and candidates of color strongly encouraged to apply
• Second language (Spanish and/or Portuguese) proficiency a plus
• Current authorization to work in the United States

Equal Opportunity Employer

Salem Public School District is committed to maintaining a work and learning environment free from discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, pregnancy, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital/civil union status, ancestry, place of birth, age, citizenship status, veteran status, political affiliation, genetic information or disability, as defined and required by state and federal laws. Additionally, we prohibit retaliation against individuals who oppose such discrimination and harassment or who participate in an equal opportunity investigation