STEM Literacy Instructor Boston Job Boston area,Massachusetts USA,Education / Teaching

Position: STEM Literacy Instructor - @Boston

YPP STEM Literacy Instructor

The Young People's Project (YPP) is on a mission to change the landscape of who participates in the learning and teaching of STEM education in Boston, Cambridge and Somerville Massachusetts. YPP is committed to working with populations of students who have historically been on the bottom, especially in STEM. YPP understands that part of the solution to the problem of improving STEM education access and outcomes for populations of students who are being left behind lies within the students themselves, who we view as valuable assets.

YPP has over 20 years of experience engaging and employing young people to work out of school to learn math well enough to teach, lead, and organize math literacy for their younger peers.

Relevance of the Position:

The purpose of a STEM Literacy Instructor is to guide and mentor a team of High School Math Literacy Workers (MLWs) through ongoing support, math and CS workshops, planning, and debrief sessions that will help them in their personal and professional development as learners, teachers, leaders, and organizers.

This work is at the frontier of STEM education in the country in that, by tapping into the energy of young people and the inherent influence they possess over one another, it seeks to provide a meaningful approach to the need in the country for quality math and computer science (CS) instruction for all children and particularly bottom quartile children.

If you are interested in STEM, particularly Computer Science, and are looking for ways to make a difference in your community, then this may be the role for you. We expect the STEM Literacy Instructor to grow and develop so that they will:

Help to build a safe, inviting, challenging, respectful and engaging learning environment and culture in the classroom;

Build meaningful professional relationships with the students, teacher, and YPP staff;

Help students develop the thinking, communication, problem-solving, management, inquiry, team-building, and interpersonal skills they will need to become successful in school and in life;

Become leaders in the classroom by helping to teach the material and manage a classroom.

In addition, STEM Literacy Instructors will occasionally provide support for special projects and will work with the local YPP Site Director to document and assess the quality of the program implementation.

Major Responsibilities:

Candidates with many of the following skills and attributes will do well in this role:

Ability to learn from, teach and co-lead a classroom of 20 in STEM related content
Comfortable with coding, research and development
To understand that the way you might solve a problem might not be the best solution
To believe, trust, and act on the suggestions of your students
Strong presentation/communication of curriculum measured by observation
Demonstrates Patience and Professionalism
Shows interest in the lives and well being of all students
Excellent interpersonal, communication, problem solving, multi-tasking, and leadership skills, and the ability to independently accomplish responsibilities as a member of multidisciplinary team
Open to all opinions, varying views and questions
Understand the institutional obstacles and barriers facing the students in the schools and communities you will work
Understand and be able to articulate YPP Mission, History, and Purpose of Math Literacy work
Ensuring Students are learning and mastering the materials
Meeting with other staff to coordinate the flow of the day, lesson plan, turn in lesson plans on time to get feedback and make adjustments before any outreach
Documenting where students need help and which skills need work
Have continued and timely communication with other instructors and Coordinator
Take notes during the session so you can add it to skills needed to work on with MLWs
Conduct and document one-on-ones and make that information available to Director
Foster an effective relationship with MLWs
Ensure that attendance and other data collection is tracked and documented constantly and regularly

Basic Qualifications

Between age 19-27 or enrolled at a Boston area college/university
Experience in Python or other Object-Oriented Programming languages
Comfortable with giving presentations
Comfortable with instructing in urban schools
Openness to learning a "New Way to Teach"
Loves to design, act and revise

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