Summer Instructor - Robotics/STEM (PS 297)

The Summer Robotics/STEM Instructor

The Summer Robotics/STEM Instructor teaches and facilitates a youth-centered class tailored to their specific expertise. Candidates with the following expertise are encouraged to apply:

• Robotics & Coding: Instruct and support students in designing, programming robots using coding platform Vex Go and various STEM tools, and VR system equipment.

Major Duties

• Prepare and develop age and skill-appropriate curriculum, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse the arts and academic competencies to be reviewed by supervisors before being taught.
• Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
• Pre-plan activities; activities should provide students with structure, purposeful use of activity, and self, including beginning and ending rituals.
• Facilitate a variety of scaffolded activities based on students' interests. Activities should promote teamwork, opportunity for mastery, and emotional and professional growth.
• Facilitate purposeful activities in community hour and participate in other staff-led activities as part of the staff team.
• Foster a youth development, strengths-based environment, fostering a sense of belonging, safety, and community to participants.
• Engage and facilitate group conversations, tracking and supporting students' academic success.
• Attend and participate in staff meetings.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred with professional experience.
• Must be at least 18 years old.
• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Experience and/or training relevant to the position required.
• Candidates with some college, experience with adolescents and teaching/coaching youth are encouraged to apply.
• Flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm for young people.
• Excellent planning, organization, and time management skills.
• Able to engage youth, while setting structure and limits in a group setting.
• Energetic, motivated self-starter and a team player.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.