Writers Toolkit Instructor

The Writers Toolkit Instructor )

The Chicago High School for the Arts seeks a part-time Creative Writing instructor for the 2025-26 school year. The position is part of the Creative Writing Conservatory and will focus on the "Writer's Toolkit" course.

• Title:
  
  The Writer's Toolkit Instructor
• Department:
  Creative Writing Conservatory
• Classification:
  Part-time instructor

The Chicago High School for the Arts (Chi Arts) develops the next generation of artistically gifted, diverse scholar artists through intensive pre‑professional training in the arts, combined with a comprehensive college preparatory curriculum. The school approaches the development of students through a whole‑student approach and through a continuous learning environment for all staff to continuously develop their understanding of our scholar‑artists.

We strive to build upon and improve our practices to make sure we are always serving all of our students to the best of our abilities.

The ideal candidate for this position is a versatile and experienced artistic writer with the passion and skills to create a learning environment that will offer a rigorous pre‑professional arts training. Candidates should have previous experience working with and instructing high school‑age students. The instructor of this course will center the curriculum on developing critical thinking, production, and presentation skills. Instructors at Chi Arts are committed to upholding antiracism, restorative practices, and community values.

Instructors will be required to differentiate instruction when designing lesson and unit plans that assess student achievement, and encourage skill development and critical thinking.

Translating ideas to the page and staying with the work for the time necessary to polish a piece takes stamina, discipline, and resilience. Participating in a pre‑professional creative writing program requires a specialized set of tools. The Writer's Toolkit is designed to emphasize and support the Chi Arts core values of balance and perseverance, and also to help students develop the specialized tools you will need throughout the program.

Because of the student‑writer workload, this class will provide students with significant time to write. Students will have both the space and the support to draft and polish pieces assigned in their creative writing classes and to develop new work based on their interests and preferred genre.

The Writer's Toolkit:
Three three‑hour classes take place on Wednesdays from 2:00 – 5:00 pm. This is a year‑long course.