Continuing Education, Start Making Comics - Youth In-Person Instructor

About the role

RISD Continuing Education functions within the larger context of RISD, an institution with an unparalleled reputation for producing highly-skilled, successful, and internationally renowned creative practitioners. We facilitate personal and professional development by engaging students in sustained exploration and learning in the creative disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Lead teens toward aspiring career paths while problem-solving through art and design.
• Emphasize design thinking, communicating, and creating.
• Develop basic characters and settings, then craft a narrative in just a few panels to get to the essentials of the story.
• Complete final illustrations using pen and ink.
• Tell a short story in a minimal number of comic panels.
• Design creative layouts that enhance your storytelling.
• Design and refine simple characters and settings.

Requirements

• BS, BFA or Art/Design Major required
• Teaching experience, including the ability to create syllabi and lesson plans, and how to tie those to learning outcomes
• Demonstrated expertise in start making comics
• Ability to convey complex art and design concepts to students with varied skills (novice to advanced) in a condensed time frame
• Able to accept and act upon constructive feedback from course evaluations by students and staff
• Able to develop and implement diverse teaching and learning for learners from a variety of educational backgrounds, environments and expectations
• Able to meet RISD’s technology requirements
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and organizational skills

Qualifications

• Masters degree
• Teaching certification/certificate
• Knowledge and understanding of early-mid childhood learner principles and respect for students

Skills

• Experience teaching K-12 in art and design
• Expressed interest in career planning and preparation for teens

Benefits

N/A

Pay

N/A

Schedule

Classes will be held on Saturdays, 1pm - 4pm on the RISD campus in Providence, RI