What are the responsibilities and job description for the Digital Media, Graphics, and Photography Teacher position at West Fargo Public Schools?
Job Description
Position Title: Digital Media, Graphics, and Photography – Career & Technical Education Teacher
Location: Sheyenne High School
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Reports To: Building Principal
Term: Renewing 188-day contract beginning with 2025-26 school year
Schedule: Mon-Fri Full-time
Salary: Positions follows the Teacher Salary Schedule 2023-2025
Date of last review: March 2025
SUMMARY: The Digital Media, Graphics, & Photography – Career & Technical Education (CTE) Teacher creates an engaging, nurturing, and safe learning environment that allows learners to develop their physical, social, and emotional wellbeing; providing instruction in skills and practical hands-on experiences to obtain marketable jobs skills or preparation for post-secondary training.
The Digital Media, Graphics, & Photography CTE Teacher provides instruction and practical hands-on experiences to learners in digital photography, graphic publications, and fundamentals of broadcast journalism to promote marketable job skills and training in a related career field including includes classroom and lab instruction related to typography, information design, branding-identity systems, illustration, social media tools, interviewing and writing, video editing, and broadcasting.
Projects may include logos, brochures, posters, magazine layouts, packaging, digital video creation, photography, animation, and/or emerging skills related to the industry. The Digital Media, Graphics, & Photography CTE Teacher provides future ready skills, knowledge, and dispositions to be compassionate, lifelong-learners, and contributing citizens in a rapidly changing world.
To Apply: Please complete the application and provide a letter of interest, a resume, and three letters of recommendation. Please also include your transcripts and a copy of your licensure through ESPB, if available.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and requirement satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (Other duties may be assigned)
Collaboration
Position Title: Digital Media, Graphics, and Photography – Career & Technical Education Teacher
Location: Sheyenne High School
Department: Curriculum & Instruction
Reports To: Building Principal
Term: Renewing 188-day contract beginning with 2025-26 school year
Schedule: Mon-Fri Full-time
Salary: Positions follows the Teacher Salary Schedule 2023-2025
Date of last review: March 2025
SUMMARY: The Digital Media, Graphics, & Photography – Career & Technical Education (CTE) Teacher creates an engaging, nurturing, and safe learning environment that allows learners to develop their physical, social, and emotional wellbeing; providing instruction in skills and practical hands-on experiences to obtain marketable jobs skills or preparation for post-secondary training.
The Digital Media, Graphics, & Photography CTE Teacher provides instruction and practical hands-on experiences to learners in digital photography, graphic publications, and fundamentals of broadcast journalism to promote marketable job skills and training in a related career field including includes classroom and lab instruction related to typography, information design, branding-identity systems, illustration, social media tools, interviewing and writing, video editing, and broadcasting.
Projects may include logos, brochures, posters, magazine layouts, packaging, digital video creation, photography, animation, and/or emerging skills related to the industry. The Digital Media, Graphics, & Photography CTE Teacher provides future ready skills, knowledge, and dispositions to be compassionate, lifelong-learners, and contributing citizens in a rapidly changing world.
To Apply: Please complete the application and provide a letter of interest, a resume, and three letters of recommendation. Please also include your transcripts and a copy of your licensure through ESPB, if available.
QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and requirement satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required for the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: (Other duties may be assigned)
Collaboration
- Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.
- Engages with other district staff in the professional learning community process.
- Demonstrates technical skills related to the industry and technology skills for communication and organization.
- Connects and shares ideas through appropriate/applicable formats to express thoughts and ideas with integrity.
- Utilizes effective communication skills to facilitate connection and sharing of thoughts and ideas in multiple formats with diverse audiences.
- Establishes and clearly articulates procedures and routines that promote efficiency and appropriate use of time.
- Clearly communicates the instructional purpose of each lesson and makes connections to prior learning.
- Engages learners in meaningful direct instruction, guided practice, and independent practice.
- Utilizes questions, discussions, and dialogue that promote critical thinking about diverse perspectives, viewpoints, and experiences.
- Empowers learners to be critical thinkers, enthusiastic learners, skillful researchers, and ethical users of information.
- Understands the complexities of cultural and global issues and how they relate to employee and learners’ experiences.
- Partners with others to resolve potential controversy and conflict through respectful discussion.
- Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
- Connects with team members and shares ideas in an effort to improve the overall learner and employee experience.
- Utilizes creative, critical thinking skills when faced with challenges.
- Designs assessments that are aligned to the standards and learning targets and provides frequent opportunities for authentic and meaningful assessments.
- Establishes a culture that values high expectations, work ethic, and a growth mindset.
- Reasons, interprets, and analyzes information to generate new knowledge and understanding.
- Demonstrates knowledge of content and pedagogy; explicitly connecting key concepts to develop learner skills.
- Demonstrates understanding of the diverse social, emotional and developmental learning needs of learners.
- Maintains communication with supervisor and director regarding general feedback, career advancement opportunities, and areas of growth opportunities.
- Maintains composure while dealing with stressful situations.
- Proactively seeks out resolutions and takes initiative to resolve knowledge gaps.
- Utilizes district guaranteed and viable curriculum including the scope & sequence of academic and social emotional learning targets along with the defined proficiency scales.
- Plans a program of study that meets the individual needs, interests, and abilities of the learners.
- Utilizes district behavioral plans as a backbone to promote positive learner behavior.
- Fosters a safe and equitable learning environment.
- Utilizes the district protocol for maintaining information on learner progress.
- Utilizes knowledge of applicable federal and state laws regarding education and learners.
- Creates an environment that is conducive to learning and appropriate to the maturity and interests of the learners.
- 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 learners.
- While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this role, the employee is regularly required to reach with hands and arms.
- While performing the essential duties and responsibilities of this role, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, bend, talk, and hear.
- The specific vision abilities required for this role include close and peripheral vision.
- The employee may be required to lift up to ~30 pounds.
- The employee must work with the public and various WFPS staff while simultaneously managing several competing demands.
- The employee may come in contact with bloodborne pathogens or other bodily fluids on rare occasions.
- The employee will work in an environment that has a quiet to loud noise level.
- Applicants are required to have one of the following:
- Bachelor's degree with a major or major equivalent (as accepted by ESPB) from an approved institution and a valid Teaching Certificate in Career and Technical Education
- Information related to CTE Teacher Certification Licensing and Occupational Work Verification can be found on the DCTE website at: http://www.nd.gov/cte/teacher-cert/#requirements
- Work experience in the areas of digital media, graphic design, or photography and a provisional certification to teach in a CTE funded program.
- A provisional certification to teach in a CTE funded program may be granted when the instructor is enrolled in a CTE approved alternative teacher preparation program. Such provisional certifications may be renewed annually provided the instructor is continuing to work toward full licensure. Provisional licensing options are available in Occupational, Praxis Testing Option (may be available depending on route), or Alternate Licensing.
- An instructor shall earn a minimum of six (6) credits for renewal of the regular (5 year) CTE credential.
- Prior experience in project management in both digital and print for publications.
- Prior experience or knowledge/interest in media and broadcast is preferred.
- Prior teaching experience is preferred.
- Prior experience working in a high school setting preferred.
- Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions and short correspondences in the English language.
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally, expressively, and reactively.
- Exercise confidentiality, discretion, and good judgement.
- Adhere to the assigned work schedule by maintaining regular and punctual attendance.
- None.
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