Industrial Arts/Technology Teacher

Servingschools; Belfast (ME); On-site; USD 46,000 - 83,000; Full time

Job summary

Troy Howard Middle School in Belfast, ME, is seeking an Industrial Arts/Technology Teacher for the 2026-2027 school year. This role focuses on hands-on STEAM learning, helping students design, build, prototype, and test their ideas in a developmentally appropriate setting.

Successful candidates will foster curiosity, creativity, collaboration, and real-world problem solving, connecting classroom activities to future careers and everyday life at RSU 71.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering hands-on STEAM/STEM lessons.
• Ability to integrate design, engineering, and art concepts.
• Strong collaboration with colleagues on interdisciplinary projects.
• Ability to foster creativity, collaboration, and risk-taking.
• Proven classroom management and student engagement at middle school level.
• Commitment to helping students connect learning to real-world contexts.

Responsibilities

• Create an engaging, hands-on learning environment for middle school students.
• Integrate STEAM/STEM concepts into Industrial Arts/Technology experiences.
• Provide opportunities for students to design, build, prototype, test, and refine ideas.
• Incorporate real-world problem-solving and engineering design processes.
• Encourage creativity, collaboration, perseverance, and responsible risk-taking.
• Support interdisciplinary and integrated learning opportunities with colleagues.

Skills

Hands-on instruction

STEAM integration

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Classroom management

Student engagement

Creativity and problem-solving

Job description

Troy Howard Middle School

Troy Howard Middle School is looking for a

2026-2027

INDUSTRIAL ARTS/TECHNOLOGY TEACHER

Troy Howard Middle School

Troy Howard Middle School is looking for a creative, innovative, and inspiring teacher to join our school community as an Industrial Arts/Technology Teacher.

Our Industrial Arts/Technology program provides middle school students with opportunities to design, build, create, problem-solve, and bring their ideas to life. Through hands-on learning, students develop practical skills while exploring how science, technology, engineering, art, and mathematics connect to the world around them.

This position offers an opportunity to help students discover that learning is not just about knowing how something works—it is about wondering, designing, making, testing, improving, and creating something new.

The Successful Candidate Will

• Create an engaging, hands-on learning environment that is developmentally appropriate for middle school students.
• Integrate STEAM/STEM concepts into Industrial Arts/Technology experiences.
• Provide opportunities for students to design, build, construct, prototype, test, and refine their ideas.
• Incorporate real-world problem-solving and engineering design processes into learning experiences.
• Encourage creativity, collaboration, perseverance, and responsible risk-taking.
• Help students develop practical skills that connect classroom learning to everyday life, future careers, and their own interests.
• Foster a classroom culture where students feel comfortable asking questions, trying new approaches, and learning from failure.
• Collaborate with colleagues to develop interdisciplinary and integrated learning opportunities.
• Support the mission of Troy Howard Middle School to help students be curious, be creative, and understand their place in a changing world.

Salary range $46,292.48 - $82,804.98 based on degree and experience.

RSU 71

PO Box 325

Belfast, ME 04915

Applications Close When Suitable Candidate is Found.

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