Driver's Education Teacher

Title:Drivers Education Teacher

State Role Title:Trainer and Instructor II

Hiring Range:$72500 - $76125

Pay Band:4

Agency:Department of Juvenile Justice

Location:Bon Air JCC

Agency Website: Type:General Public - G

Job Duties

The teacher provides instruction structure and academic support to students within a secure juvenile justice educational setting. This role requires strong classroom management adaptability and the ability to engage students with varying academic behavioral and emotional needs.

Teachers are expected to create a safe structured and student-centered classroom environment while supporting the rehabilitative mission of the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Minimum Qualifications

Experience: Bachelors degree from an accredited institution and graduated from an approved teacher preparation program in health and physical education; or earned a bachelors degree from an accredited institution and completed a major in health and physical education or 45 semester hours of coursework distributed in the following areas:

• Personal health safety and care of athletic injuries: three semester hours;
• Human anatomy physiology exercise physiology and biomechanics of human movement: nine semester hours;
• General health and physical education theory including curriculum design and development in health and physical education: three semester hours;
• Instructional methods and skills for secondary physical education: three semester hours;
• Concepts of motor learning instructional methods and skills for elementary physical education: three semester hours;
• Instruction methods for elementary and secondary school health: three semester hours;
• Health and physical education electives: nine semester hours;
• Instructional methods and strategies for adapted physical education: three semester hours;
• Technology in health and physical education: three semester hours;
• Principles of human nutrition: three semester hours; and
• Assessment and evaluation in the content area: three semester hours.

Licensed: Must possess or be eligible for a Virginia Teaching Certificate/License and endorsed in PE / Health and Drivers Education.

Experience: Experience as a Health/PE Drivers Education teacher in a secondary setting preferred.

Contact Information

Name: Victor Rogers

Phone:

Email:

In support of the Commonwealths commitment to inclusion we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS) or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation if applicable to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at .

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1 2022- February 29 2024 can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.