5-12 Culinary Arts & Nutrition Teacher
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Job Location:
Houston, MS - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
2 days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
5-12 Culinary Arts & Nutrition Teacher
Job Description
Beta is a Title I Schoolwide campus. Part or all of this job could be funded with federal funds.
Mission
The mission of the Beta Academy Culinary Arts & Nutrition Teacher is to develop scholars and leaders through a culture of joyful rigor by providing hands-on real-world cooking experiences rooted in a Seed-to-Plate approach. Scholars will build lifelong skills in cooking nutrition and sustainability while developing the knowledge and leadership to contribute at the community national and international levels.
Outcomes & Deliverables
Meet Academic Goals
- 100% of scholars demonstrate growth in cooking skills kitchen safety and food preparation techniques
- Scholars develop real-world lifelong skills including meal preparation nutrition literacy collaboration and problem-solving
- Scholars demonstrate increasing levels of independence creativity and leadership across grade levels
- High scholar engagement and participation in elective courses
- Scholars apply voice and choice through recipe creation food experimentation and project-based learning
2. Meet School Culture Goals
- Create a classroom culture aligned to Beta Academys values of joy honor and high expectations
- 95% scholar persistence and strong engagement in Culinary Arts/Cooking electives
- Scholars produce work that reflects excellence in execution presentation and pride
3. Meet Curriculum Goals
- Implement the Seed-to-Plate curriculum (Hope Farms Houston TX) with fidelity
- Develop and maintain a vertically aligned 512 cooking pathway:
- Grades 58: Cooking Foundations Cooking Skills Cooking Creations Cooking Mastery
- Grades 912: Advanced Cooking (Food Lab)
Ensure instruction includes:
- Cooking techniques and kitchen safety
- Nutrition and healthy lifestyle education
- Food systems sustainability and gardening
Maintain and update curriculum pacing guides lesson materials and resources annually
4. Meet Garden Community & Partnership Goals
- Establish and maintain the Beta Academy Garden as a living classroom aligned to the Seed-to-Plate model
- Launch and/or support a Beta Garden Club that develops scholar leadership and ownership
- Engage scholars in growing harvesting and utilizing ingredients in cooking experiences
- Develop community engagement opportunities including:
- Volunteer days
- Family workshops
- Community harvest events
Establish and maintain partnerships with organizations such as:
- Hope Farms (Recipe for Success Foundation)
- Houston Food Bank
- Urban Harvest
- Harris County Master Gardeners
- Local chefs restaurants and farms
- Create opportunities for service learning including food donation and community impact projects
- Seek partnerships grants and donations to support program sustainability and innovation
Job Prerequisites
- Bachelors degree required (education nutrition culinary agriculture or related field preferred)
- Experience teaching or working with youth (grades 512 preferred)
- Experience in cooking food service nutrition gardening or related field preferred
Role-Based Competencies
- Teaching & Leadership Skills
- Organization & Planning
- High Standards
- Openness to Feedback and Ideas
- Proactivity
- Efficiency
- Communication
- Team Work
- Attention to Detail
- Problem-Solving
- Emotional Intelligence
- Flexibility/Adaptability
Beta Culture Competencies
- Joy
- Culture of Honor
- Courageous Conversations
- Integrity
- Innovative Thinking
- Creativity
Summary:
The Culinary Arts & Nutrition Teacher is responsible for delivering a hands-on inquiry-based elective program that develops scholars cooking skills nutrition knowledge and understanding of food systems through a Seed-to-Plate approach.
This role ensures a joyful and rigorous learning environment where scholars engage in real-world applications develop leadership skills and build confidence and independence. The teacher will also lead the development of the Beta Garden and cultivate community partnerships to enhance scholar learning and impact.
Essential Duties:
- Plan organize and deliver daily instruction for 512 Culinary Arts/Cooking electives
- Facilitate hands-on cooking labs demonstrations and real-world projects
- Integrate voice and choice into scholar learning experiences
- Differentiate instruction to meet diverse scholar needs
- Assess scholar progress through performance-based tasks and projects
- Establish and maintain a safe organized and efficient kitchen and garden environment
- Lead the development and upkeep of the Beta Garden including planting harvesting and sustainability practices
- Sponsor or support a Garden Club and provide scholar leadership opportunities
- Build and maintain partnerships with community organizations to support:
- Scholar learning
- Service projects
- Food donation initiatives
- Cooking competitions
- Program funding
- Integrate real-world applications such as:
- Meal planning
- Budgeting
- Food presentation
- Collaborative cooking challenges
- Participate in professional development and school initiatives
- Perform additional duties as assigned by the principal
General Responsibilities:
- Support scholars in achieving excellence through joyful rigor
- Implement Beta Academy instructional practices including:
- Hands-on learning and real-world projects
- Cooperative learning and leadership development
- Soft skills coaching (communication teamwork responsibility)
- Ensure scholars demonstrate pride effort and mastery in all work
- Support school-wide events showcases and initiatives
- Continuously develop professionally through learning and reflection
Interpersonal Skills:
- Build positive and supportive relationships with scholars staff and families
- Work collaboratively with peers to create innovative programming
- Inspire scholars to take ownership of their learning
- Thrive in a flexible and dynamic work environment
Professionalism & Communication:
- Demonstrate professionalism by regularly attending and arriving on time to work staff meetings training parent nights (one per month) and other assigned duties.
- Complete required training on time.
- Work cooperatively to create an atmosphere of unity among the school community and refrain from gossip negativity and unsupportive comments.
- Demonstrate professionalism at ALL times. Exercise wisdom by remaining calm respectful and non-defensive during parent meetings disagreements and personal attacks.
- Utilize professional communication with strong grammar syntax usage and/or spelling skills during phone conversations personal conversations emails and social media such as Facebook Instagram Twitter etc. refrain from attacking others or fighting on social media. Professional communication is used on and off campus.
- Exhibit professionalism in appearance and follow the BA standard of dress located in the Magic Makers Handbook under the Dress Code section. Apply this standard of dress to social media posts in regards to modesty in dress and action (ex: swimsuit cleavage & shirtless pictures in addition to posts with alcohol cigarettes and bars etc.).
- Check staff email a minimum of three times daily during normal working hours and check teacher in-box daily and commit to reading updates notes and employee notices in a timely manner.
Reports To:
The Principal
Required Experience:
IC
