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Job Description

Position Title: Work Based Learning Teacher

Location: Sheyenne High School

Department: Curriculum & Instruction

Reports To: Building Administration and Special Education Leadership

Term: Renewing 188-day contract beginning with 2026-27 school year. Following school calendar. (Prorated depending on start date)

Schedule: Mon-Fri Full-time

Salary: Positions follows the 2025-2027 Teacher Salary Schedule
Date of last review: May 2026

SUMMARY: The Work Based Learning teacher supports learners in developing career readiness skills and successfully participating in work-based learning experiences. This position combines classroom instruction with coordination of student work placements, with a strong emphasis on supporting students receiving Special Education services and meeting transition goals aligned with IEPs. The teacher serves multiple high schools and collaborates across buildings to ensure equitable access to meaningful work experiences and career development opportunities.

To Apply: Please complete the application and include up-to-date, relevant submissions of your resume, letter of interest, and three letters of recommendation. Please also include your transcripts and a copy of your licensure through ESPB, if available. Not including the required documents/references may result in loss of candidacy.
 

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:

• Collaborates with Special Education programs, counselors, and CTE staff across multiple high schools to schedule learners into Work Experience and Career Development courses.
• Attends IEP meetings and contributes to transition planning.
• Coordinates with community agencies, employers, and skills trainers to support work-based learning placements.
• Participates in Special Education Department meetings and cross-building collaboration.
• Facilitates, inspires, and supports learner engagement, formative and authentic assessment, academic literacy, safe and compassionate learning environments, and technology integration through the coaching cycle framework to support learner learning.
• Develops positive, effective working relationships with learners and staff.

Communication:

• Communicates learner progress, program expectations, and worksite performance with learner caregivers, staff, and community partners.
• Maintains ongoing communication with employers, supervisors, and job coaches.
• Uploads required documentation and manages data related to vocational and transition services
• 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.
• 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.

Compassion:

• Proactively seeks to understand the ideas, opinions, and skills of others.
• 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.
• Supports learners with diverse academic, social, and career-readiness needs.
• Assists learners in problem-solving challenges in both classroom and workplace settings.

Creativity:

• Designs and delivers engaging instruction in career readiness, including job seeking skills, workplace expectations, and employability skills.
• Implements differentiated instructional strategies to support individualized learning.
• 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.
• Establishes a culture that values high expectations, work ethic, and a growth mindset.

Critical Thinking:

• Analyzes learner performance in both classroom and work-based settings to guide instruction and support.
• Uses data to monitor progress and provide interventions for learners needing additional support.
• 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.

Reflection:

• 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.
• Participates in PLCs, professional development, and transition-planning meetings.
• Reflects on instructional practices, student outcomes, and program effectiveness to guide continuous improvement.

Resilience:

• Maintains composure while dealing with stressful situations.
• Proactively seeks out resolutions and takes initiative to resolve knowledge gaps.
• Manages work-based learning coordination across multiple high schools and job sites.
• Adapts to changing learner needs, schedules, and workplace environments.

Responsibility:

• Teaches Work Experience and/or Career Development courses across assigned high schools.
• Develops and maintains partnerships with local businesses and community organizations.
• Secures and coordinates student work placements aligned with career interests and transition goals.
• Conducts site visits to monitor student performance and provide support.
• Maintains accurate records of student participation, hours, and progress in work based learning.
• Monitors grades and progress for learners in both classroom and work-based settings.
• Supports summer or extended work experience programming as assigned.
• 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.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT: The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• 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.
   
  

Education and/or Experience:

• North Dakota Teaching License with qualifications in one or more areas of Special Education.
• Bachelor's Degree in Education or related field.
• Master's Degree in Special Education, Career & Technical Education, or related field is preferred.
• Experience working in a Special Education classroom is preferred.
• Experience working with learners with complex behaviors is preferred.
• Prior teaching experience is preferred.
• Experience supporting secondary transition services, career development, or vocational programming is preferred.
• Experience participating in IEP meetings with an emphasis on transition planning is preferred. Experience coordinating or supporting work-based learning, job sites, or community partnerships is preferred.
• Experience with Career Education programs, PAES labs, or similar career readiness models is preferred.
• Ability to manage documentation, data collection, and reporting related to vocational or transition services is preferred.
   
  

Language Skills:

• Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions and short correspondences in the English language.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally, expressively, and reactively.

Other Skills and Abilities:

• Exercise confidentiality, discretion, and good judgement.
• Adhere to the assigned work schedule by maintaining regular and punctual attendance.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES: 

• None.

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