Job Description

2026-2027 Middle School Career & Technical Education Teacher – Health Sciences

REPORTS TO:

Building Principal and/or Designee

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT:

10-month position (Temporary if hired after contractual start date for teachers)

SALARY:

Current Teacher Salary Schedule

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIESCTE AND HEALTH SCIENCES INSTRUCTION:

• Plan and deliver standards-aligned instruction for Exploring Health Sciences I and Exploring Health Sciences II.
• Implement the curriculum and expectations associated with Delaware Career and Technical Education and applicable Delaware CTE career exploration standards.
• Provide hands-on, inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based learning experiences related to health sciences and healthcare careers.
• Introduce students to careers across the health sciences, including nursing, allied health, public and community health, emergency medical services, behavioral health, rehabilitation, diagnostic services, therapeutic services, biotechnology, and other healthcare occupations.
• Help students examine career responsibilities, education and training requirements, industry credentials, postsecondary opportunities, workplace environments, employment outlook, and career advancement opportunities.
• Connect middle school career exploration to CTE Programs of Study available at Dover High School and throughout Delaware.
• Integrate developmentally appropriate concepts related to anatomy and physiology, wellness, public health, medical terminology, healthcare systems, patient care, safety, professionalism, and ethics.
• Incorporate authentic healthcare scenarios, simulations, demonstrations, projects, and performance tasks.
• Maintain a safe, organized, engaging, and academically rigorous classroom environment.
• Explicitly teach and reinforce appropriate laboratory, equipment, sanitation, and classroom safety procedures.
• Maintain instructional materials, supplies, equipment, inventories, and other resources necessary for program implementation.

CAREER EXPLORATION AND PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT

The teacher will support students in:

• Identifying personal interests, strengths, skills, and potential career goals.
• Exploring the breadth of occupations within the Health Science career cluster.
• Comparing education, credentialing, training, and employment requirements across healthcare careers.
• Understanding the relationship among middle school coursework, high school CTE Programs of Study, dual enrollment, industry-recognized credentials, postsecondary education, work-based learning, and employment.
• Developing foundational career-readiness and employability skills.
• Building awareness of Delaware employers, healthcare providers, colleges, universities, training organizations, and career opportunities.
• Understanding workplace professionalism, communication, confidentiality, ethical decision-making, responsibility, collaboration, and safety.

CONTENT-AREA LITERACY

The teacher will incorporate literacy as an essential component of CTE and health sciences instruction and will:

• Provide students with regular opportunities to read and engage with appropriately complex informational, technical, scientific, and career-related texts.
• Explicitly teach academic, technical, and health sciences vocabulary.
• Support students in determining meaning, gathering evidence, analyzing information, and communicating understanding from technical and informational texts.
• Provide structured opportunities for students to engage in academic discussion, collaborative problem solving, and evidence-based discourse.
• Incorporate writing throughout the course, including explanatory writing, reflection, technical writing, evidence-based responses, career research, and project documentation.
• Use strategies that build student background knowledge, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and disciplinary literacy.
• Reinforce Capital School District's expectations for literacy across all content areas and contribute to the district's secondary literacy initiatives.
• Collaborate with instructional coaches, literacy specialists, special educators, multilingual learner staff, and content-area teachers to strengthen student literacy outcomes.

MULTI-TIERED SYSTEMS OF SUPPORT (MTSS)

The teacher will actively participate in the school's Multi-Tiered System of Support and will:

• Deliver high-quality, evidence-based Tier I instruction designed to meet the needs of all learners.
• Use formative assessment, student work, screening information, classroom performance, and other available data to identify student strengths and instructional needs.
• Differentiate and scaffold instruction based on identified student needs.
• Implement appropriate classroom-based supports and interventions within the teacher's area of responsibility.
• Participate in collaborative data review, PLC, MTSS, student support, and problem-solving meetings as assigned.
• Monitor student response to instruction and intervention and maintain appropriate documentation of student progress.
• Provide intervention, enrichment, reteaching, or additional instructional support during designated MTSS, intervention, advisory, flex, or other support periods as assigned.
• Collaborate with general education teachers, special educators, multilingual learner teachers, counselors, interventionists, instructional coaches, and administrators to support students requiring additional academic or behavioral assistance.
• Implement accommodations, modifications, supports, and services identified in student IEPs, Section 504 Plans, multilingual learner plans, behavior plans, and other required student plans.
• Contribute to schoolwide efforts to improve student attendance, engagement, academic performance, behavior, and successful course completion.

ASSESSMENT AND STUDENT LEARNING

• Develop and administer formative and summative assessments aligned to course outcomes.
• Use authentic performance tasks, projects, demonstrations, presentations, simulations, and other applied assessments to measure student learning.
• Regularly analyze assessment results and student work to adjust instruction.
• Provide timely, specific, and actionable feedback to students.
• Maintain accurate records of student achievement, attendance, progress, and other required information.
• Communicate student progress effectively with students, families, counselors, administrators, and other appropriate staff.
• Support district and school efforts related to standards-based instruction, grading, assessment, and continuous improvement.

COLLABORATION AND PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT

• Collaborate with school and district administrators, CTE personnel, counselors, teachers, instructional coaches, special education staff, multilingual learner staff, and other support personnel.
• Work with counselors and CTE staff to help students understand secondary CTE opportunities and make informed high school course and pathway selections.
• Contribute to the development of a coherent Grades 6–12 CTE pathway system connecting middle school exploration to high school Programs of Study.
• Participate in CTE curriculum development, program review, needs assessment, continuous improvement, and district planning.
• Develop relationships with healthcare providers, employers, colleges, universities, community organizations, and other industry partners.
• Coordinate appropriate guest speakers, career presentations, industry demonstrations, field experiences, career fairs, workplace exposure, and other career-connected learning opportunities.
• Support efforts to increase equitable student access to and participation in CTE programs.
• Participate in advisory committees, career pathway events, recruitment activities, student showcases, and other CTE initiatives as assigned.

PROFESSIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Participate in professional learning communities, faculty meetings, curriculum meetings, MTSS meetings, district professional development, CTE professional learning, and other required activities.
• Engage in ongoing professional learning related to CTE, health sciences, literacy, MTSS, adolescent development, instructional technology, assessment, and effective instructional practices.
• Maintain professional knowledge of current developments within healthcare and health sciences careers.
• Maintain required CTE, instructional, student, safety, and program documentation.
• Communicate regularly and professionally with students, families, colleagues, administrators, and community partners.
• Maintain confidentiality and adhere to all applicable district, state, and federal requirements.
• Demonstrate professional conduct consistent with Capital School District expectations and Delaware educator standards.
• Participate in school and district committees, events, student activities, and other professional responsibilities as assigned.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Principal, Superintendent, or designee.

REQUIRED DELAWARE LICENSURE AND CERTIFICATION

The successful candidate shall meet Delaware Department of Education licensure and certification requirements applicable to the assignment.

Required

• Hold or be eligible for a valid Delaware Initial, Continuing, or Advanced License, as applicable under Delaware educator licensure requirements.
• Hold or be eligible to obtain the Delaware Skilled and Technical Sciences Teacher Standard Certificate (14 DE Admin. Code 1559) in the applicable career area.
• For a Health Sciences assignment, the preferred applicable career-area concentration is Therapeutic Services – Allied Health, or another DDOE-approved Skilled and Technical Sciences concentration determined appropriate for the courses assigned.
• Meet all education, occupational experience, credentialing, and other requirements established by the Delaware Department of Education for issuance and retention of the applicable Skilled and Technical Sciences certification.
• Maintain all licenses, certifications, permits, industry credentials, professional credentials, and training required by the Delaware Department of Education and Capital School District for the assignment.

Candidates who do not currently hold the required Delaware Standard Certificate may be considered if they are eligible for an applicable Delaware Certificate of Eligibility, Emergency Certificate, or other authorized pathway to certification, subject to Delaware Department of Education requirements and district approval.

Final determination of certification eligibility and the appropriate Skilled and Technical Sciences career-area concentration shall be made in consultation with the Delaware Department of Education and Capital School District Human Resources.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Meet all Delaware licensure and certification requirements applicable to the position.
• Possess the education and occupational experience necessary to qualify for the applicable Delaware Skilled and Technical Sciences certification.
• Demonstrate knowledge of health sciences, healthcare careers, or a closely related field.
• Demonstrate knowledge of effective teaching, learning, assessment, and classroom management practices.
• Demonstrate the ability to establish a positive, inclusive, and academically productive environment for middle school students.
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate literacy, technology, career readiness, and academic content into CTE instruction.
• Possess strong written, verbal, organizational, technological, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Demonstrate the ability to collaborate effectively with educators, administrators, families, community organizations, and industry partners.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree or higher from an accredited college or university in health sciences, healthcare, nursing, allied health, public health, biomedical sciences, education, or a related field.
• Professional or industry experience in a health sciences or healthcare-related field.
• Previous CTE teaching experience.
• Previous middle school teaching experience.
• Delaware 1559 Skilled and Technical Sciences Teacher – Therapeutic Services/Allied Health certification.
• Current or previous healthcare-related professional license, certification, or industry-recognized credential.
• Knowledge of Delaware Career and Technical Education and Delaware Pathways.
• Experience implementing project-based, problem-based, inquiry-based, or experiential learning.
• Experience implementing content-area literacy strategies.
• Experience participating in an MTSS framework and using student data to differentiate instruction and provide interventions.
• Experience supporting students with disabilities and multilingual learners.
• Experience developing partnerships with healthcare providers, employers, colleges, universities, or community organizations.
• Knowledge of work-based learning and career-connected learning.

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT

Salary, work year, benefits, and other conditions of employment shall be established in accordance with the applicable Capital School District collective bargaining agreement, Board of Education policies, Delaware law, and applicable district procedures.

EVALUATION

Performance will be evaluated in accordance with Delaware educator evaluation requirements, Capital School District procedures, and applicable collective bargaining provisions.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

Capital School District is an equal opportunity employer and provides educational and employment opportunities consistent with applicable federal and state nondiscrimination requirements.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential duties of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands, arms, talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

STANDARD REQUIREMENTS

• Favorable Criminal Background Check and Child Abuse Registry Check
• Tuberculin Test and physical
• Mandatory Direct Deposit of paycheck

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS

Interested candidates who meet the minimum qualifications may apply by completing an employment application. A cover letter, resume, and three letters of reference (dated within the last year) are required. Incomplete applications will not be considered.

Applicants needing special accommodations in the application process of the vacancy announcement may contact the Human Resources office at 302-857-4215.

The Capital School District is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity, against victims of domestic violence, sexual offenses, or stalking, or upon any other categories protected by federal, state, or local law. Inquiries regarding nondiscrimination policies should be directed to the Title IX, District 504 and ADA Coordinators: Capital School District, 198 Commerce Way, Dover DE 19904. Phone (302) 672-1500