Career/Technical Education Teachers, Middle School

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Work Activities

• Enforce all administration policies and rules governing students.
• Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
• Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among students.
• Adapt teaching methods and instructional materials to meet students' varying needs and interests.
• Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
• Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
• Guide and counsel students with adjustments, academic problems, or special academic interests.
• Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
• Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
• Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Select, store, order, issue, inventory, and maintain classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Provide students with disabilities with assistive devices, supportive technology, and assistance accessing facilities, such as restrooms.
• Instruct and monitor students in the use and care of equipment and materials to prevent injuries and damage.
• Prepare students for later educational experiences by encouraging them to explore learning opportunities and to persevere with challenging tasks.
• Establish clear objectives for all lessons, units, and projects, and communicate those objectives to students.
• Instruct students individually and in groups, using various teaching methods, such as lectures, discussions, and demonstrations.
• Attend professional meetings, educational conferences, and teacher training workshops to maintain and improve professional competence.
• Use computers, audio-visual aids, and other equipment and materials to supplement presentations.
• Maintain accurate and complete student records as required by laws, district policies, and administrative regulations.
• Prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.
• Perform administrative duties, such as school library assistance, hall and cafeteria monitoring, and bus loading and unloading.
• Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Plan and conduct activities for a balanced program of instruction, demonstration, and work time that provides students with opportunities to observe, question, and investigate.
• Plan and supervise class projects, field trips, visits by guest speakers or other experiential activities, and guide students in learning from those activities.
• Select, store, order, issue, inventory, and maintain classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Prepare reports on students and activities as required by administration.
• Collaborate with other teachers and administrators in the development, evaluation, and revision of middle school programs.
• Meet with other professionals to discuss individual students' needs and progress.
• Assign and grade class work and homework.
• Assign and grade class work and homework.
• Sponsor extracurricular activities, such as clubs, student organizations, and academic contests.
• Select, store, order, issue, inventory, and maintain classroom equipment, materials, and supplies.
• Prepare, administer, and grade tests and assignments to evaluate students' progress.
• Observe and evaluate students' performance, behavior, social development, and physical health.
• Prepare objectives and outlines for courses of study, following curriculum guidelines or requirements of states and schools.
• Attend staff meetings and serve on committees, as required.
• Confer with parents or guardians, other teachers, counselors, and administrators to resolve students' behavioral and academic problems.
• Prepare and implement remedial programs for students requiring extra help.
• Prepare for assigned classes and show written evidence of preparation upon request of immediate supervisors.
• Meet with parents and guardians to discuss their children's progress and to determine priorities for their children and their resource needs.
• Confer with other staff members to plan and schedule lessons promoting learning, following approved curricula.

Skills

• Operations Analysis
  • Figuring out what a product or service needs to be able to do.
• Speaking
  • Talking to others.
• Management of Personnel Resources
  • Selecting and managing the best workers for a job.
• Equipment Selection
  • Deciding what kind of tools and equipment are needed to do a job.
• Installation
  • Installing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs.
• Management of Material Resources
  • Managing equipment and materials.
• Equipment Maintenance
  • Planning and doing the basic maintenance on equipment.
• Monitoring
  • Keeping track of how well people and/or groups are doing in order to make improvements.
• Quality Control Analysis
  • Testing how well a product or service works.
• Repairing
  • Repairing machines or systems using the right tools.
• Systems Analysis
  • Figuring out how a system should work and how changes in the future will affect it.
• Critical Thinking
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
• Active Listening
  • Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
• Science
  • Using scientific rules and strategies to solve problems.
• Service Orientation
  • Looking for ways to help people.
• Instructing
  • Teaching people how to do something.
• Social Perceptiveness
  • Understanding people's reactions.
• Active Learning
  • Figuring out how to use new ideas or things.
• Technology Design
  • Making equipment and technology useful for customers.
• Judgment and Decision Making
  • Thinking about the pros and cons of different options and picking the best one.
• Negotiation
  • Bringing people together to solve differences.
• Mathematics
  • Using math to solve problems.
• Coordination
  • Changing what is done based on other people's actions.
• Writing
  • Writing things for co-workers or customers.
• Complex Problem Solving
  • Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
• Time Management
  • Managing your time and the time of other people.
• Programming
  • Writing computer programs.
• Operations Monitoring
  • Watching gauges, dials, or display screens to make sure a machine is working.
• Operation and Control
  • Using equipment or systems.
• Troubleshooting
  • Figuring out what is causing equipment, machines, wiring, or computer programs to not work.
• Management of Financial Resources
  • Making spending decisions and keeping track of what is spent.
• Learning Strategies
  • Using the best training or teaching strategies for learning new things.
• Reading Comprehension
  • Reading work-related information.
• Systems Evaluation
  • Measuring how well a system is working and how to improve it.
• Persuasion
  • Talking people into changing their minds or their behavior.

Abilities

• Deductive Reasoning
  • Using rules to solve problems.
• Flexibility of Closure
  • Seeing hidden patterns.
• Visual Color Discrimination
  • Noticing the difference between colors, including shades and brightness.
• Night Vision
  • Seeing at night or under low light.
• Rate Control
  • Changing when and how fast you move based on how something else is moving.
• Trunk Strength
  • Using your lower back and stomach.
• Dynamic Strength
  • Exercising for a long time without your muscles getting tired.
• Extent Flexibility
  • Bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Perceptual Speed
  • Quickly comparing groups of letters, numbers, pictures, or other things.
• Time Sharing
  • Doing two or more things at the same time.
• Mathematical Reasoning
  • Choosing the right type of math to solve a problem.
• Selective Attention
  • Paying attention to something without being distracted.
• Peripheral Vision
  • Seeing something to your side when your are looking ahead.
• Static Strength
  • Lifting, pushing, pulling, or carrying.
• Written Comprehension
  • Reading and understanding what is written.
• Speech Recognition
  • Recognizing spoken words.
• Explosive Strength
  • Jumping, sprinting, or throwing something.
• Fluency of Ideas
  • Coming up with lots of ideas.
• Number Facility
  • Adding, subtracting, multiplying, or dividing.
• Memorization
  • Remembering words, numbers, pictures, or steps.
• Problem Sensitivity
  • Noticing when problems happen.
• Speed of Closure
  • Quickly knowing what you are looking at.
• Arm-Hand Steadiness
  • Keeping your arm or hand steady.
• Response Orientation
  • Quickly deciding if you should move your hand, foot, or other body part.
• Control Precision
  • Quickly changing the controls of a machine, car, truck or boat.
• Auditory Attention
  • Paying attention to one sound while there are other distracting sounds.
• Stamina
  • Exercising for a long time without getting out of breath.
• Near Vision
  • Seeing details up close.
• Gross Body Coordination
  • Moving your arms, legs, and mid-section together while your whole body is moving.
• Category Flexibility
  • Grouping things in different ways.
• Sound Localization
  • Noticing the direction that a sound came from.
• Oral Comprehension
  • Listening and understanding what people say.
• Inductive Reasoning
  • Making general rules or coming up with answers from lots of detailed information.
• Information Ordering
  • Ordering or arranging things.
• Spatial Orientation
  • Knowing where things are around you.
• Written Expression
  • Communicating by writing.
• Finger Dexterity
  • Putting together small parts with your fingers.
• Far Vision
  • Seeing details that are far away.
• Reaction Time
  • Quickly moving your hand, finger, or foot based on a sound, light, picture or other command.
• Depth Perception
  • Deciding which thing is closer or farther away from you, or deciding how far away it is from you.
• Gross Body Equilibrium
  • Keeping your balance or staying upright.
• Oral Expression
  • Communicating by speaking.
• Visualization
  • Imagining how something will look after it is moved around or changed.
• Dynamic Flexibility
  • Quickly and repeatedly bending, stretching, twisting, or reaching out with your body, arms, and/or legs.
• Originality
  • Creating new and original ideas.
• Manual Dexterity
  • Holding or moving items with your hands.
• Glare Sensitivity
  • Seeing something even if there is a glare or very bright light.
• Speech Clarity
  • Speaking clearly.
• Multilimb Coordination
  • Using your arms and/or legs together while sitting, standing, or lying down.
• Hearing Sensitivity
  • Telling the difference between sounds.
• Speed of Limb Movement
  • Quickly moving your arms and legs.
• Wrist-Finger Speed
  • Making fast, simple, repeated movements of your fingers, hands, and wrists.

Knowledge

• Food Production
  • Knowledge of techniques and equipment for planting, growing, and harvesting food products (both plant and animal) for consumption, including storage/handling techniques.
• Mathematics
  • Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, calculus, statistics, and their applications.
• Biology
  • Knowledge of plant and animal organisms, their tissues, cells, functions, interdependencies, and interactions with each other and the environment.
• Building and Construction
  • Knowledge of materials, methods, and the tools involved in the construction or repair of houses, buildings, or other structures such as highways and roads.
• Administrative
  • Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
• Engineering and Technology
  • Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
• Telecommunications
  • Knowledge of transmission, broadcasting, switching, control, and operation of telecommunications systems.
• Transportation
  • Knowledge of principles and methods for moving people or goods by air, rail, sea, or road, including the relative costs and benefits.
• Design
  • Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principles involved in production of precision technical plans, blueprints, drawings, and models.
• Production and Processing
  • Knowledge of raw materials, production processes, quality control, costs, and other techniques for maximizing the effective manufacture and distribution of goods.
• Mechanical
  • Knowledge of machines and tools, including their designs, uses, repair, and maintenance.
• Therapy and Counseling
  • Knowledge of principles, methods, and procedures for diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of physical and mental dysfunctions, and for career counseling and guidance.
• Computers and Electronics
  • Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Psychology
  • Knowledge of human behavior and performance; individual differences in ability, personality, and interests; learning and motivation; psychological research methods; and the assessment and treatment of behavioral and affective disorders.
• English Language
  • Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, and rules of composition and grammar.
• History and Archeology
  • Knowledge of historical events and their causes, indicators, and effects on civilizations and cultures.
• Philosophy and Theology
  • Knowledge of different philosophical systems and religions. This includes their basic principles, values, ethics, ways of thinking, customs, practices, and their impact on human culture.
• Public Safety and Security
  • Knowledge of relevant equipment, policies, procedures, and strategies to promote effective local, state, or national security operations for the protection of people, data, property, and institutions.
• Geography
  • Knowledge of principles and methods for describing the features of land, sea, and air masses, including their physical characteristics, locations, interrelationships, and distribution of plant, animal, and human life.
• Education and Training
  • Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.
• Administration and Management
  • Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources.
• Economics and Accounting
  • Knowledge of economic and accounting principles and practices, the financial markets, banking, and the analysis and reporting of financial data.
• Sales and Marketing
  • Knowledge of principles and methods for showing, promoting, and selling products or services. This includes marketing strategy and tactics, product demonstration, sales techniques, and sales control systems.
• Customer and Personal Service
  • Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.
• Personnel and Human Resources
  • Knowledge of principles and procedures for personnel recruitment, selection, training, compensation and benefits, labor relations and negotiation, and personnel information systems.
• Chemistry
  • Knowledge of the chemical composition, structure, and properties of substances and of the chemical processes and transformations that they undergo. This includes uses of chemicals and their interactions, danger signs, production techniques, and disposal methods.
• Sociology and Anthropology
  • Knowledge of group behavior and dynamics, societal trends and influences, human migrations, ethnicity, cultures, and their history and origins.
• Physics
  • Knowledge and prediction of physical principles, laws, their interrelationships, and applications to understanding fluid, material, and atmospheric dynamics, and mechanical, electrical, atomic and sub-atomic structures and processes.
• Medicine and Dentistry
  • Knowledge of the information and techniques needed to diagnose and treat human injuries, diseases, and deformities. This includes symptoms, treatment alternatives, drug properties and interactions, and preventive health-care measures.
• Foreign Language
  • Knowledge of the structure and content of a foreign (non-English) language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition and grammar, and pronunciation.
• Fine Arts
  • Knowledge of the theory and techniques required to compose, produce, and perform works of music, dance, visual arts, drama, and sculpture.
• Law and Government
  • Knowledge of laws, legal codes, court procedures, precedents, government regulations, executive orders, agency rules, and the democratic political process.
• Communications and Media
  • Knowledge of media production, communication, and dissemination techniques and methods. This includes alternative ways to inform and entertain via written, oral, and visual media.

Education

Education

Bachelor's degree

Work Experience

Less than 5 years work experience

Training

No on-the-job training

Education and Training Opportunities

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Education and Training Opportunities

• Bates Technical College
  1101 S Yakima Ave, Tacoma WA 98405
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  1,000 - 4,999

  Financial Aid 253-680-7000
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,No graduate offering
  Website

  https://www.batestech.edu/
  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  2 years
  Award Level
  Associate's degree
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• Bellingham Technical College
  3028 Lindbergh Ave, Bellingham WA 98225-1599
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  1,000 - 4,999

  Financial Aid 360-752-7000
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,No graduate offering
  Website

  https://www.btc.edu/
  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  2 years
  Award Level
  Associate's degree
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• Central Washington University
  400 East University Way, Ellensburg WA 98926
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  10,000 - 19,999

  Financial Aid 509-963-1111
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,Graduate degree or certificate offering
  Website

  http://www.cwu.edu/
  Program Name
  Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  More than 4 years
  Award Level
  Master's degree
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  Program Name
  Trade and Industrial Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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  Program Name
  Sales and Marketing Operations/Marketing and Distribution Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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• Eastern Washington University
  526 5th Street, Cheney WA 99004-2496
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  10,000 - 19,999

  Financial Aid 509-359-6200
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,Graduate degree or certificate offering
  Website

  http://www.ewu.edu/
  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  Less than one year
  Award Level
  Postbaccalaureate certificate
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  Program Name
  Business and Innovation/Entrepreneurship Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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• South Seattle College
  6000 16th Ave SW, Seattle WA 98106-1499
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  5,000 - 9,999

  Financial Aid 206-934-5300
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,No graduate offering
  Website

  http://southseattle.edu/
  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree, Certificates of less than 12 weeks
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• University of Washington-Seattle Campus
  1400 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle WA 98195-4550
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  20,000 and above

  Financial Aid 206-543-2100
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,Graduate degree or certificate offering
  Website

  https://www.washington.edu/
  Program Name
  Family and Consumer Sciences/Home Economics Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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  Program Name
  Business and Innovation/Entrepreneurship Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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  Program Name
  Technology Teacher Education/Industrial Arts Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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• Walla Walla Community College
  500 Tausick Way, Walla Walla WA 99362-9267
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  1,000 - 4,999

  Financial Aid 509-522-2500
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,No graduate offering
  Website

  https://www.wwcc.edu/
  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  2 years
  Award Level
  Associate's degree
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• Washington State University
  French Administration Building, Pullman WA 99164-5910
  School Type

  Public, 4-year or above

  Admissions
  School Size

  20,000 and above

  Financial Aid 509-335-3564
  Other Degrees Offered

  Undergraduate degree or certificate offering,Graduate degree or certificate offering
  Website

  https://wsu.edu/
  Program Name
  Technical Teacher Education
  Length
  More than 4 years
  Award Level
  Master's degree
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  Program Name
  Agricultural Teacher Education
  Length
  4 years
  Award Level
  Bachelor's degree
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Pay

Washington Annual Salary

101340/yr

Washington Employment Trends

Currently Employed

610

Yearly Projected Openings

50

Personality

Social: People interested in this work like activities that include helping people, teaching, and talking. They do well at jobs that need:

• Integrity
• Concern for Others
• Dependability
• Self Control
• Cooperation
• Adaptability/Flexibility

Tools

• Air compressors
• Air filters
• Air lift pump
• Art airbrushes
• Audio mixing consoles
• Automatic lathe or chucking machine
• Axes
• Belt sander
• Bench vises
• Cages or its accessories
• Calipers
• Circuit tester
• Claw hammer
• Cold chisels
• Compact disk players or recorders
• Desktop computers
• Digital camcorders or video cameras
• Digital cameras
• Digital video disk players or recorders
• Direction finding compasses
• Disc sander
• Dissection kits or supplies
• Dissolved oxygen meters
• Domestic baking pans
• Domestic blenders
• Domestic crock pot
• Domestic food processors
• Domestic graters
• Domestic knives
• Domestic measuring cups
• Domestic microwave ovens
• Domestic mixers
• Domestic ranges
• Domestic strainers or colanders
• Egg inspection or collecting equipment
• Engravers
• Epidiascopes
• Fire blankets
• Fluorescent lamps
• Hand clamps
• High capacity removable media drives
• Hollow punch
• Incubators or brooders for poultry
• Inkjet printers
• Ironing machines or presses
• Laser fax machine
• Laser printers
• Laundry type washing machines
• Levels
• Liquid crystal display projector
• MP3 players or recorders
• Metal cutters
• Microphone stand
• Microphones
• Mitre box
• Multimedia projectors
• Multimeters
• Notebook computers
• Offset socket wrenches
• Overhead projectors
• Paper punching or binding machines
• Pet grooming products
• Photocopiers
• Pipe or tube cutter
• Planters
• Plotter printers
• Portable data input terminals
• Power buffers
• Power drills
• Power grinders
• Projection screens or displays
• Protractors
• Safety glasses
• Scanners
• Scientific calculator
• Secateurs or pruning shears
• Shears
• Shovels
• Slide projectors
• Special purpose telephones
• Stamping dies or punches
• Tablet computers
• Teleconference equipment
• Televisions
• Touch screen monitors
• Vertical machining center
• Videoconferencing systems
• Water analyzers
• Web cameras
• pH meters

Technology

• Analytical or scientific software
• Application server software
• Business intelligence and data analysis software
• Calendar and scheduling software
• Cloud-based data access and sharing software
• Cloud-based management software
• Clustering software
• Computer based training software
• Configuration management software
• Customer relationship management CRM software
• Data base management system software
• Data base user interface and query software
• Development environment software
• Electronic mail software
• Enterprise application integration software
• Enterprise resource planning ERP software
• Expert system software
• File versioning software
• Graphical user interface development software
• Information retrieval or search software
• Internet browser software
• Object or component oriented development software
• Object oriented data base management software
• Office suite software
• Operating system software
• Optical character reader OCR or scanning software
• Presentation software
• Process mapping and design software
• Program testing software
• Project management software
• Spreadsheet software
• Storage networking software
• Web platform development software
• Word processing software