2025-2026 Educator Preparation Teacher-Manual Tech

KANSAS CITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Job Description

Job Title: Educator Preparation Teacher

Reports To: Director of Career and Technical Education

Job Code: 870

Salary Grade: T01-T06 (See Teacher Salary Schedule)

FLSA Status: Exempt

PURPOSE OF JOB

The primary goal of the teacher cadet program is to encourage academically talented, high-achieving, high school students with exemplary interpersonal leadership skills to consider urban teaching as a career. Kansas City Public Schools (KCPS) is developing a Grow Your Own teacher pipeline for an innovative approach to recruit highly invested future teachers to return to KCPS schools. The program will provide KCPS high school students with insights into the nature of teaching, the problems with schooling, and the critical issues affecting the quality of urban education in America’s schools. The Pre-Professional Cadet teacher will provide instruction on the skills needed to obtain certification in the teaching field as well as supervise the practicum component of the coursework.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Other duties as assigned

* MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Missouri State Certification in Secondary Education

SUCCESS FACTORS

Mastery of curriculum writing and alignment to assessments

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to stand, walk, and sit. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, and ability to adjust focus.