Job Description:

Location: West Fargo High School
Department: Career and Technical Education
Reports To: Building Principal
Term: Renewing 188-day contract beginning with the 2025-26 school year
Schedule: Mon-Fri Full-time

SUMMARY: The Power Sports Teacher creates an engaging, nurturing, and safe learning environment that allows learners to develop their physical, social, and emotional well-being; providing instruction, future-ready skills, knowledge, and dispositions to be compassionate, lifelong learners, and contributing citizens in a rapidly changing world. The Power Sports Teacher provides learners with skills and practical hands on experiences to obtain a marketable job or advancement to post-secondary training in the power sport industry.

The Power Sports Teacher provides opportunities for learners to test, diagnose, adjust, and repair a variety of outdoor power equipment, including snowmobiles, motorcycles, ATVs, watercraft, and outboard or inboard marine, snow blowers, lawn mowers, etc.

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.
Communication:
Instructs learners in the basics of safety, equipment identification, and the use of hand and power tools in a lab setting.
Provides learners with information about careers in the Power Sports industry.
Provides instruction through lab-based projects.
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.
Compassion:
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.
Creativity:
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.
Critical Thinking:
Utilizes technology, mathematics, reading, writing, vocabulary, blueprint reading, and science.
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.
Resilience:
Maintains composure while dealing with stressful situations.
Proactively seeks out resolutions and takes initiative to resolve knowledge gaps.
Responsibility:
Maintains a clean and safe lab environment for learning.
Follows MSDS requirements for use, care, and disposal of chemicals.
Advises, and/or partners with other colleagues to advise, the Career & Technical Student Organization (CTSO) SkillsUSA.
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.
The employee will continuously use hand/finger dexterity and hand/grip strength.
The employee will work indoors and outdoors based on projects. Will experience applicable outdoor weather elements.
The employee will frequently be exposed to items of high or cold temperatures, chemical compounds, and/or sharp edges.
The employee may come into contact with standard automative fluids.
 
Education and/or Experience:
Applicants must possess one of the following:
Bachelor's Degree in Secondary Education with occupational experience in the identified program area.
Minimum of 4 years (8,000 hrs.) of trade work experience in the area of small engines, recreational engines, or the power sport industry
Hold a DPI Career and Technical Education Endorsement in the identified program area.
Candidates pursuing the alternate license options must complete coursework in Transition to Teaching within the first two years of teaching toward the five year teaching license.
Prior teaching experience is preferred.
Prior experience working in a high school setting is preferred.
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
 
Language Skills:
Ability to read, write, and comprehend simple instructions and short correspondence in the English language.
Ability to communicate effectively verbally, expressively, and reactively.
 
Other Skills and Abilities:
Exercise confidentiality, discretion, and good judgment.
Adhere to the assigned work schedule by maintaining regular and punctual attendance.
 
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:
None.

Salary: Positions follow the  2025-2027 Teacher Salary Schedule

To Apply: Please complete the application and provide an up-to-date letter of interest, up-to-date resume, and three up-to-date letters of recommendation. Please also include your transcripts and a copy of your licensure through ESPB, if available.