Job Description

Title: Middle School Department Chair for Career and Technical Education

Reports To: Middle School Principal

Job Goal: To ensure that process and procedures are in place to facilitate instruction and to implement policies set forth by the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Director.

Performance Responsibilities:

  1. Plan, coordinate, and monitor all CTE programs to ensure that they meet or exceed Local Education Agency (LEA), State, and National requirements.
  2. Promote effective CTE Student Organizations with shared responsibility among teachers.
  3. Attend regularly scheduled WCPSS CTE Department Chair meetings and disseminate information to CTE teachers and administrators (as appropriate) in the school.
  4. Meet or exceed all deadlines for information requested from the CTE Office. These plans should include annual budget projections by program area for travel, supplies, equipment, and supplemental textbooks that are not on the state-adopted list.
  5. Ensure that purchase requests (including blanket purchase orders), direct payment requests, and green sheets are completed and processed correctly and timely so that all bills can be paid by the Accounting Department.
  6. Hold monthly CTE department meetings. After each meeting, submit a copy of the agenda and minutes to the principal and to any member of the department who was not present at the meeting. Include attendance information in the minutes.
  7. Ensure that each CTE teacher is aware of the current blueprint, curriculum guide, and classroom item banks (if available) for each course taught. Encourage the use of VoCATS interim assessment of competencies all year long to improve students' tests results (Business Education).
  8. Attend regularly scheduled school-based Department Chair meetings, and share information in monthly CTE department meetings.
  9. Manage the CTE budget for the school and ensure that new items are delivered to the appropriate CTE teacher (after it is appropriately inventoried). Assist receiving teacher in acquiring the services of a technician or other resource in order to place the equipment or materials into service immediately.
  10. Provide support to the Career Development Coordinator (CDC) who works with the Central Office VoCATS Coordinator to ensure that VoCATS are administered in compliance with state requirements. Review results with CTE teachers when the results are returned. Distribute teacher copies of VoCATS results when received at the school level from the VoCATS Coordinator (for Business Education only).
  11. Work with the school's NCWISE Data Manager to ensure that VEIS data is reported timely and accurately. Attend the meetings conducted by the Senior Administrator who coordinates VEIS to receive the instructions and to ensure that the schoolıs data is ready for transmission.
  12. Encourage teacher participation and leadership in local, state, regional, and national meetings as funding permits.
  13. Ensure that all CTE teachers are knowledgeable of the WCPSS CTE website, which contains information related to CTE curriculum, policies, and procedures.

This page was last updated on August 22, 2006