Job Description:
Location: Hillsboro High School
Date of Availability: 2025-2026

CERTIFIED POSITION - AGRICULTURE TEACHER 

• Base Teacher's Salary of $42,800-$76,600
• Full benefits package includes Medical, Dental & Life Insurance
• Career Ladder eligible
• Missouri State Teacher Certification Required: Agricultural Ed 9-12;  Preferred: Unified Science-Biology 9-12 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES
•     Develops a program of study that meets individual needs, interests and abilities of students.
•     Instructs students by lecturing, demonstrating and using audiovisual aids and other materials to supplement presentations.
•     Prepares course objectives and outlines for course of study following curriculum guidelines or requirements of state and school.
•     Assigns lessons, corrects homework, and provides students with positive feedback and constructive criticism on assignments.
•     Administers tests to evaluate student’s progress, records results, and issues reports or conducts meetings to inform parents of progress.
•     Establishes and enforces rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom they are responsible.
•     Keeps attendance records.
•     Maintains discipline in the classroom.
•     Recognizes and refes students encountering medical, physical and/or psychological problems seeking the assistance of district specialists as required.
•     Establishes and maintains appropriate working relationships by actively communicating with parents.

MARGINAL DUTIES
•     Participates in faculty and professional meetings, educational conferences, mentor programs and teacher training workshops.
•     Attends staff meetings and serves on staff committees as required.
•     Plans and supervises purposeful assignments for teacher aide(s) and/or volunteer (s).
•     Performs related duties such as sponsoring one or more co-curricular activities or student organizations, assisting pupils in selecting courses of study, and counseling students in adjustment and academic problems.
•     Contributes to the decisions made by the District and building regarding budget, facilities, curriculum, and personnel well-being.
•     Maintains a physically and aesthetically attractive classroom setting and exercises proper care of school equipment.
•     Shares responsibility for supervision of students in all areas of the schools through activities such as monitoring student activity between classes.
•     Performs additional tasks and assumes such other responsibilities as assigned by the Principal.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES
•     Supervises 2 or more employees (Teacher's Aide and Volunteers as assigned).

QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS
•     Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from an accredited four-year College or University
•     Missouri State Teaching Certificate

PHYSICAL DEMANDS
•     The employee may frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  The employee is frequently required to feel, grasp, push, reach with hands/arms, stoop, kneel, crawl, perform repetitive wrist, hand and/or finger movement, and move up or down from/to sitting position.

MENTAL DEMANDS
•     Ability to maintain confidentiality; communicate clearly both orally and in writing

ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS
•     Exposed to loud noise levels.  
•     This individual may be exposed to potentially hazardous bodily fluids.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Hillsboro R-III Schools considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status. 

Hillsboro R-III School District uses the applicant tracking system from Frontline Education to manage employment applications online.