Positions Available as of 07/10/25:
Academic Positions
Posting Closes July 16, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
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Posting Closes on July 23, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
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Active State of Connecticut Special Education certification (#065, #165 or #265) or qualify for a durational shortage area permit (DSAP).
A CTECS Special Education Instructor is responsible for educating students with teaching practices that reflect high expectations and current pedagogy of teaching and learning methods, strategies, and technologies in all discipline areas e.g., student-centered, gradual release of responsibility, differentiation, student discourse, and blended-learning; communicate with parents; create a classroom environment that is conducive to learning; participate in professional learning.
Qualifications required, (e.g., education, degrees, certification, licensing, skills, knowledge, abilities, specialized training):
- Active State of Connecticut teaching certificate (#065, #165 or #265) or Eligible for a State of Connecticut teaching certificate in subject area (includes ARC candidates).
- Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four-year university or college.
- Professional experiences related to the field of special education.
- 21st century standards-based lesson planning aligned to the CT Core Standards.
- Experience with varied assessments to inform instruction and promote learning.
- Ability to foster and facilitate learning and classroom management.
- Ability to communicate ideas and directives clearly and effectively, both orally and in writing.
- Effective, active listening skills.
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with others.
- Organizational and problem solving
- Excellent public relations skills.
- Entry-level computer skills including Microsoft Office and Google Products.
- Preferred candidates will have experience in teaching or substitute teaching and be able to demonstrate methods of delivering lessons, assessing student knowledge and the use of educational technology. This may include involvement in student/community activities.
Supervisor: School Principal and Assistant Principal
Hours / Time Requirements: 188 days per school year, 7 hours daily. Review SVFT bargaining unit contract for more information.
Working Conditions:
- Interaction among adolescents
- Repetitive hand motion, e.g., computer keyboard, typing, calculator, writing
- Regular requirement to sit, stand, walk, read, hear, see, speak, reach, stretch with hands and arms, crouch, kneel, climb, and stoop
- Frequent interruption of duties by staff, students, visitors and/or telephone
- Occasional requirement to lift, carry, push and/or pull various supplies and/or equipment up to a maximum of 20 pounds
Essential duties and responsibilities. Functions that the employee must be able to perform. Mental and/or physical requirements should be described and where applicable, quantified:
Responsibility Area #1: Planning, Preparation & Case Management
- Demonstrate facility in the skills of the reading, writing, and mathematics
- Demonstrate knowledge of human growth and development as it relates to the teaching-learning process
- Engage in intentional co-planning with academic instructors to prepare lesson plans that achieve clear objectives, use appropriate techniques, and serve the needs of all learners in the classroom through differentiation
- Plan instruction to achieve students’ IEP goals and objectives
- Effectively organize time, space, materials, and equipment for instruction
- Maintain accurate and complete special education records as required
- Assess student learning on a continual basis to maintain pertinent data and analyze it to demonstrate student progress on goals and objectives
- Plan, schedule, and lead PPT meetings to meet all federal and state timeline requirements
- Encourage and maintain the cooperative involvement and support of parents and the community
Responsibility Area #2: Classroom Environment
- Manage the classroom and individual student behavior to maintain an advantageous and positive learning environment
- Maintain a positive school community image that encourages ethical student behavior
- Help students develop positive self-concepts
Responsibility Area #3: Instruction
- Effectively implement instructional plans and use appropriate instructional techniques
- Effectively communicate with students
- Effectively assess student needs and progress
- Effectively meet the needs of exceptional students
- Facilitate the independence of the student as a learner
Responsibility Area #4: Professional Responsibilities
- Reflect on teaching practices
- Maintain accurate records
- Maintain effective and on-going communication with students and their families
- Participate in building and district level professional development and collaboration. This will include working with various committees and departments to facilitate educating students
- Participate in professional communities
- Demonstrate growth in professional craft
- Demonstrate professionalism; adhere to the Connecticut Code of Professional Responsibility
- Implement the CTECS Board of Education and administrative policies, rules, regulations, and directives
- Maintain a positive school community image that encourages ethical student behavior
- Maintain confidentiality concerning personnel, student, and operational concerns of the district
- Report all cases of suspected child abuse to appropriate school personnel and authorities
Closing date is July 23, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.
Applications will be accepted via E-Mail or Fax only.
E-Mail address: HR.applications@cttech.org or Faxes may be sent to – CTECS Recruitment 860-706-5756.
Posting Closes on July 23, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
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Posting Closes on July 24, 2025 at 11:59 p.m.
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Trade Positions
General description of the position
A CTECS Aviation Technology Instructor is responsible for planning, conducting and assessing instructional activities on maintenance, repair and parts installation– to include safety, proper use of tools, ensure regulations of FURPA, and monitor group instructional activities. In addition, the Instructor must maintain educational records; inventory and tool control logs; track achievement of desired program outcomes by coordinating and administering tests in accordance with accepted reporting procedures; developing alternative instruction for individualized and independent study. Aviation Technology Instructors shall educate students on theoretical and performance-based topics related to all aspects of the Aviation repair and related fields. The program is designed to meet the requirements of FAA Part 147 school. Those skills deemed essential to this course form a cluster of usable skills and technical knowledge much needed in today’s Aviation Repair field.
Qualifications required, (e.g., education, degrees, certification, licensing, skills, knowledge, abilities, specialized training)
- Occupational Subject Endorsement #090 in Aviation Technology is required.
- Eight years of relevant hands-on experience
- Must hold FAA Powerplant and Airframe License
- Basic computer skills, Microsoft Office, Word, and Excel
Supervision Received: Works under the supervision of a School Principal, and Assistant Principal.
Supervision Exercised: Supervises students in classrooms, laboratories, and CTECS shops as well as on off-campus production sites.
Hours / Time Requirements: 188 days per school year. Review your bargaining unit contract for more information.
General Statement of Duties
CTECS Aviation Technology Instructors teach courses in the discipline of Aviation technologies. They will be required to develop and design lesson and/or unit plans to foster student learning, stimulate class discussions utilizing a variety of pedagogical methods, including but not limited to differentiated instruction, fostering building of relationships, etc. Instructors will provide social emotional support in the learning process and ensure student engagement. Plumbing and Heating Instructors provide tutoring and academic counseling to students, maintain classroom records and assess student coursework. Aviation Technology Instructors also collaborate and support colleagues regarding research interests and co-curricular activities. Aviation Technology Instructors are required to attend periodic building-level and districtwide meetings and professional development.
Aviation Instructors are required to meet with business and industry partners in an effort to maintain being current in the trade and to keep apprised to the newest technology, as well as providing feedback to district curriculum teams on modern industry practices to adjust curricula when needed. These relationships also connect the program and students to employment and work-based learning opportunities. For more information regarding this, please review your bargaining unit contract for more information (see link above).
Working Conditions:
- Instructors in this technology will be required to model and demonstrate safe work practices prior to facilitation of learning. Instructors may need to stand for long periods of time, lift, climb, bend, twist and repeat the same movements as dictated by the trade and projects being taught.
- Incumbents in this class may be required to lift light to medium weights and be exposed to some risk of injury from typical Aviation repair site environments.
Closing date is July 15, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.
Applications will be accepted via E-Mail or Fax only.
E-Mail address: HR.applications@cttech.org or Faxes may be sent to – CTECS Recruitment 860-706-5756.
General description of the position:
A CTECS Robotics and Automation instructor is responsible for educating students on theoretical and performance-based topics related to electronic and robotic principles, electronics schematics, resistors, actuators, mathematical calculations related to voltage, current, resistance and power systems, ohm’s law and its application to series, elements of circuit design as related to robotic sensors, transducers, interfacing techniques and control systems, as well as PLC’s. It is important that the candidate show experience in robotic automation, both analog and digital electronics circuitry related to diode, transistor, and FET component circuits as well as design using integrated circuitry for both advanced electronics/robot automation.
The Department Head is a teacher that is an instructional leader who promotes student achievement for all and facilitates the operations of the department. As a Department Head, you are responsible for the duties outlined above, as well as responsibilities related to instructional support, leadership and operations within your department.
Qualifications required, (e.g., education, degrees, certification, licensing, skills, knowledge, abilities, specialized training):
- Minimum of eight (8) years of relevant, varied, hands-on experience in the Robotics and Automation field.
- Experience must encompass all areas specified in the program description in order to effectively teach the approved Robotics and Automation curriculum. For a detailed explanation, please reference the Robotics and Automation program description.
- Formal training (college or technical institutes) can count up to five (5) years. Formal training credit should be applied for coursework directly associated with Robotics and Automation. Transcript review should determine the percentage of study time devoted to trade and be applied proportionately.
- Combined experience cannot be counted to obtain multiple endorsements. Requirement is eight (8) years for each subject area.
- Connecticut Teacher Certification Occupational Subject Endorsement #090 in Electronics/Mechatronics/Robotics and Automation is required. A #826 endorsement is required for the Robotics and Automation/Electronics/Mechatronics Department Head position, or qualify for a Durational Shortage Area Permit (DSAP).
- Current OSHA 10- General Industry Certification.
- Intermediate-level computer skills including Microsoft Office and Google Products.
- Preferred candidates will have completed VTE 113, VTE 116, and a Special Education course.
- Preferred candidates will have experience in teaching or substitute teaching and be able to demonstrate methods of delivering lessons, assessing student knowledge, and the use of educational technology. This may include involvement in student/community activities.
Supervisor: School Principal and Assistant Principal
Hours/Time Requirements: 188 days per school year, 7 hours daily. Review your bargaining unit contract for more information.
Working Conditions:
Instructors are required to teach students in a variety of settings; theory and hands-on. In the theoretical education setting, instructors will be required to plan and deliver Robotic and Automation related lessons in the laboratory/classroom. Hands-on education will be delivered in the laboratory/classroom also. Instructors will be required to plan and deliver lessons that include utilizing a variety of measurement, soldering and testing equipment including, but not limited to, Fluke meters, Digital Trainers, breadboards, robots, pneumatic arms, as well as robot structures, chassis, manipulators/grippers, and fabrication techniques. Instructors are also required to attend periodic building level meetings and professional development. Review your bargaining unit contract for more information.
Essential duties and responsibilities. Functions that the employee must be able to perform. Mental and/or physical requirements should be described and where applicable, quantified:
Robotic and Automation instructors are expected to be capable of teaching all aspects of the curriculum. The Robotic and Automation program is a mixture of theoretical and hands-on training. The theoretical training will require instructors to plan and deliver information, and then assess the student’s competency. This will be done in a variety of methods, some will include the use of educational technology. Instructors need the basic computer skills to access online curriculum/resources and present lessons to students.
The hands-on portion of the Robotics and Automation curriculum will require instructors to possess the technical skill to complete various circuit and robotic design and creation tasks. Digital trainers are standard equipment in the trade and the many and varied meters, soldering systems and robotics kits need to be moved/set up for student use. Along with standing and moving, many tasks will require the ability to bend at the waist, squat, and kneel, as well as work with and manipulate items above the head. Lifting and transporting heavier items can also be expected.
While working in the laboratory environment, the Robotics and Automation instructor will be required to use a variety of hand and power tools. This will require the fine and gross motor skills to appropriately manipulate work pieces and tools. The shop projects and operations include, but are not limited to, using basic hand tools and using portable power tools e.g., corded/cordless drills, etc..
Participating in building and district level professional development and collaboration. This will include working with various committees and departments to facilitate student learning.
In addition to above, trade department heads are responsible for the following:
Instructional Support Responsibilities
- Assists with the implementation of the instructional program within the department including supporting substitutes.
- Assists and monitors in the implementation of the content, aligned to the CTECS district approved materials such as: curriculum, pacing guide, DSA’s, and competency checklists.
- Models a variety of instructional strategies that accommodate different student backgrounds, cognitive abilities and learning styles.
- Reviews lesson plans, observes classroom instruction, and provides feedback and support as needed to improve instruction, classroom management, and professional growth.
Leadership Responsibilities
- Provides clear expectations regarding policies and procedures utilized in the shop, including but not limited to, uniform, student conduct/discipline, equipment uses, safety compliance, clean-up, and inventory controls.
- Plans and leads department meetings and PLCs with other departments as well as administration.
- Serves on committees when requested and as a liaison between the department, administration and central office.
- Organizes and facilitates the Program Advisory Committee (PAC) in accordance with district guidelines, including the recruitment of appropriate members. Increase and document PAC membership annually. Meetings will be held after school hours.
- Promotes in industry outreach programs, such as Work-Based Learning (WBL), internships, SkillsUSA, and job shadowing.
- Provides school-wide leadership support and recommendations for professional development and direction on effective instruction and programming, including instructional rounds.
Operational Responsibilities
- Manages departmental budgets, prepares, and submits requisitions for orders, repairs, and maintenance. Manage enrollment and retention plans. Ensures that student credentials are attained and tracked in collaboration with district guidelines. Improvement of summative assessments per year.
- Oversees all Student Workforce activities, such as On/Off campus Production, CTECS Facilities Production, WBL, Internships and job shadowing, ensuring that all district procedures are followed.
- Completes all required departmental inventory tasks and assists in the removal of outdated instructional materials, including repair of equipment.
- Ensures that all equipment is properly operational and that all required maintenance and repairs are completed.
- Ensures all safety training is appropriately completed, required documentation is properly maintained and procedures are followed. Ensures safety within the department; including posting and enforcement of appropriate laboratory safety wear & rules (i.e. uniforms, boots, PPE, etc…).
- Maintain and submit department records, including trade credentials, student data, and PLC minutes, perform other professional duties as required by the administration.
Posting Closes on July 24, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.
Applications will be accepted via E-Mail or Fax only.
E-Mail address: HR.applications@cttech.org or Faxes may be sent to – CTECS Recruitment 860-706-5756.
#090 Valid Connecticut Certification – Criminal Justice and Protective Services Occupations and one of the following Department Head certifications: #092, #105, #826 or qualify for a Durational Shortage Area Permit (DSAP).
Preferred candidate will have a combined eight years of experience in in one or more of these fields: public law enforcement, correction services, emergency management, emergency medical services, fire management services, legal services, security and protection services, and military services. Preferred candidate will hold a bachelor’s degree in a related field or teaching. Preferred candidate will hold (or able to obtain within 2 years of hire) a current Emergency Medical Services Instructor Certificate. Preferred candidate will have experience teaching, preparing lesson plans and differentiated learning. Program will include introduction of legal, fire, and emergency services. Preference may be given to those candidates who have completed the following courses at CCSU; VTE 113, VTE 116 and a Special Education course. Obtaining a CDL license with the proper endorsements within one year of employment is required to drive the student transport vehicle.
Posting Closes on July 24, 2025, at 11:59 p.m.
Applications will be accepted via E-Mail or Fax only.
E-Mail address: HR.applications@cttech.org or Faxes may be sent to – CTECS Recruitment 860-706-5756.
Student Support Services
The Connecticut Technical Education and Career System is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.
The CTECS is committed to a policy of equal opportunity/affirmative action for all qualified persons and equal access to Boy Scouts of America and other designated youth groups. The CTECS does not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis of age ancestry, color, criminal record (in state employment or licensing)gender identity or expression, genetic information, intellectual disability, marital status, mental disability (past or present) national origin, physical disability (including blindness), race religious creed, retaliation for previously opposed discrimination or coercion, sex (pregnancy or sexual harassment)sexual orientation, veteran status or workplace hazards to reproductive systems, unless there is a bona fide occupational qualifications excluding persons in any of the aforementioned protected classes.
Inquiries regarding the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System’s non discrimination policies and practices should be directed to:
Levy Gillespie
Equal Employment Opportunity Director
State of Connecticut Department of Education
450 Columbus Blvd, Suite 607
Hartford, CT 06103
Levy.Gillespie@ct.gov
(860)-807-2071
(Coordinator for matters related to Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employment and nondiscrimination policies and practices)
Linda Leyhow
Climate, Equity and Title IX Supervisor
Connecticut Technical Education and Career System
39 Woodland St
Hartford, CT 06105
Linda.Leyhow@cttech.org
(860)-807-2106
(Coordinator for matters related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973)
U.S. Department of Education
Office for Civil Rights
5 Post Office Square, Suite 900
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-3921
(617) 289-0111
Fax number (617) 289-0150
TTY/TDD (877) 521-2172
(Matters related to race, color, national origin, age, sex and/or disability)