What are the responsibilities and job description for the Vocational Agriculture Education Instructor/ Charles Page High School position at Sand Springs Public Schools?
Position available for the 2025-2026 School Year
Location:
Sand Springs Public Schools
Charles Page High School
Position:
Vocational Agriculture Education Instructor
Status: Exempt
Contract Days: 365 Days/7 hour days
Reports to: Building Principal
Supervises: Volunteers and Students
Evaluation: TLE model
Qualifications: Valid Oklahoma Teaching Certificate in Assigned Subject(s)/ Secondary Agriculture Education Instructor/CTE, Pass an OSBI Background Check
Job Goal: Provide exceptional instruction to assigned students while working within the district's established policies and procedures. Applicants should possess a strong desire to have a successful, well-rounded program and be proficient in agriculture mechanics, horticulture, classroom instruction, and swine. All applicants should be highly organized, professional, and proficient in dealing with the community and the public.
Evaluation: TLE under Oklahoma Law
Physical Demands: This is an overview intended for compliance with the ADA – it is not an exhaustive list of the duties to be performed. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions of a specific position.
Regular Requirements: Stand for extended periods; walk; twist at the neck and trunk; bend and reach with hands and arms overhead, above the shoulder, and horizontally; repetitive use of fingers and hands to grasp and/or operate equipment and demonstrate lessons to students; lift/move up to 15 pounds
Occasional Requirements: Lift/move up to 70 pounds, ability to administer CPR
Visual Requirements: Close, color, peripheral, depth perception, ability to adjust focus
Hearing/Speaking Requirements: Adequate to exchange information
Classroom Instruction:
- Teach Agriculture Science and Technology classes
- Prepare teaching plans, demonstration plans, and teaching materials for all classes
- Prepare and evaluate teaching schedule, curriculum, and teaching calendars
- Conduct field trips, both in and out of the district
- Coordinate, maintain inventories, and keep records of classroom and laboratory agriculture materials and equipment.
Supervised Agricultural Experience Program (SAEP)
- Advise and evaluate students regarding Supervised Agriculture Experience Programs.
- Assist students with the planning and maintenance of SAEP's
- Conduct site visits of SAEPs as recommended by the State Department of Education
- Assist students in keeping SAEP records at the local and state level
FFA:
- Be willing to serve as an advisor for the FFA chapter
- Assist students in coordinating FFA activities at the local, district, state, and national levels
- Prepare and train FFA and agriculture contest teams and entries.
- Assist students in preparing applications for proficiency awards, state and American Degrees, etc.
- Assist students in conducting a public relations program for the local FFA chapter and agriculture department.
Other Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Establishes and implements classroom procedures designed to maximize student learning in an environment conducive to learning and appropriate to the student's maturity and interests.
- Prepares detailed weekly written lesson plans consistent with Oklahoma Academic Standards designed to teach skills on course curriculum maps and timely submits plans to an assigned principal.
- Complies with and fully implements all Individualized Education Plans and behavioral or academic interventions.
- Maintains a neat and orderly classroom, including the physical arrangement of the room, student records, and materials.
- Handles routine classroom discipline fairly.
- Assists the administration in implementing all policies and rules governing student life and conduct, and, for the classroom, develops reasonable rules of classroom behavior and procedure and maintains order in the school fairly and justly.
- Attends and participates in all required meetings and conferences, including professional development and planning meetings, and strives for professional growth.
- Maintains complete and accurate student records, including attendance, performance, and discipline records.
- Provides professional and regular feedback to students and parents, ensuring compliance with all laws and district policies and procedures. Communicates regularly with parents using notes, phone calls, conferences, etc.
- Utilizes professional behavior in all school-related interactions.
- Complies with all federal, state, and local laws, board policies, and procedures.
- Uses formative and summative data to guide instruction, plans for student interventions, and communicates progress to parents.
- Provides individualized and small group instruction, adapting the curriculum as needed.
- Provides a technology-enriched environment to support student learning.
- Maintains availability to students and parents for education-related purposes outside the instructional day.
- Plans and coordinates the work of teacher assistants, parents, and volunteers in the classroom and on field trips.
- Collaborates with other professionals to enrich and improve students' academic progress
- Plan and attend evening activities, including but not limited to recruitment events, consulting committee meetings, and award ceremonies.
- Be willing to obtain license endorsements for the transportation of students.
- Serve as liaison to the local FFA Alumni chapter.
- Contribute to the preparation and tracking of the budget for the agriculture program each year.
- Purchase supplies and equipment for the classroom and laboratory
- Cooperate in maintaining, planning, and improving the physical facilities
- Complete and file required reports with appropriate agencies, including the State Department of Education
- Contribute to the grant writing process for the acquisition of agriculture equipment, materials, and facilities
- Performs all other tasks as a supervisor may assign
