English Teacher: 8th Grade Adventure in the City Program

Liberty LEADS is a NYC-based college access program that has served over 200 underrepresented children between 5th and 12th grade each year since 1989. Liberty LEADS was founded to empower youth by helping them attain higher education, embrace leadership engagement, and create a positive future for themselves and others. Liberty LEADS provides an alternative learning environment in which young people can experience success as learners and increase their ability and motivation to graduate from high school and seek entry into postsecondary education and/or meaningful employment. The program is guided by the principle that all children have gifts, talents, and great potential and can contribute to one another's social and academic growth.  

We are looking for energetic and creative educators who enjoy working with youth during the summer and are available for in person programming.  

The Adventure in the City (AIC) Program is a summer program for current 8th graders (rising 9th graders). AIC combines High School Prep/Transition and English and focuses on building leadership skills and enhancing interpersonal relationships through the use of outdoor experiential education. Educators will deliver engaging, fun and exciting curricula to our students this summer by utilizing the outdoors to facilitate learning and will focus on cultivating skills such as critical thinking, problem solving and teamwork. The goal of the summer is to equip participants with the skills necessary to make a healthy transition from middle school to high school. This model uses a co-teaching model -(2 teachers total with one in each discipline)- High School Prep/Transition and English.  The teachers will focus on cultivating skills necessary for a successful transition into high school. The English teacher will use the outdoor experiences to inform the implemented lesson plans while helping students prep for high school writing.  

We are looking for energetic and creative educators who enjoy working with youth during the summer and are available for in person programming. 

Selected applicants will be responsible for developing and implementing a 20-day, project-based curriculum.  For the interview, we ask that applicants present ideas for the purpose and theme of their ideal summer experience. Programming begins July 5^th 2023 and meets Wednesday through Friday the first week of July and Monday through Thursday for the following four  weeks culminating with a final presentation. All applicants must be available for all 20 days of programming from 9 am to 3 pm. Lunch is provided and spent with the students. 

Responsibilities

• Co-create differentiated project-based English/writing and high school prep curriculum for 8^th

grade that can be implemented in person or virtually.

• Co-teach English/writing curriculum for 8th graders. 
• Include outdoor programming in curriculum planning.
• Manage classroom using positive behavior management strategies
• Meet regularly with the Liberty LEADS Middle School Advisor and Program Coordinator for supervision and debriefing         
• Accompany students up and down stairs, on field trips (that may include but not limited to walks,
  hikes, parks)  

Qualifications

• Must possess a Bachelor or Master degree in education, preferably with a concentration in English/Writing
• NYS Teacher Certification or professional proficiency in content area preferred
• Experience teaching middle or high school youth using project-based learning
  Co-teaching experience
• Knowledge and understanding of the NYCDOE academic standards (Common Core/New Generation
  Standards)
• Experience teaching classes using Zoom platform preferred 

Requirements

• Reliable WIFI and computer access

• Attend mandatory curriculum planning session with co teachers and advisors (dates tbd)
• Attend mandatory June 2023 Orientation  

Physical Requirements

• Walking up and down stairs up to and including the nine flights to the gym
• Supervising and participating in outdoor activities such as walking up to 20 city blocks, hiking or other activities as named.

Please forward the cover letter and resume to:
Ana Lisa Tiburcio. Director (atiburcio@bansktreet.edu) and Mitchel Balcacer Program Coordinator (mbalcacer@bankstreet.edu) - Bank Street College of Education - Liberty Leads and apply through the Bank Street website.

About Bank Street College of Education

The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the educational process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

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