Curriculum Specialist; Intermediate​/Senior Physics & Chemistry

Position Title:

Curriculum Specialist (Intermediate/Senior Physics & Chemistry)

Employment Type:

Full-time Contract (12-Month) | Union (Canadian Media Guild)

Annual Salary Range: $91,270.73 - $97,165.35

Division:
Education

Location:

2180 Yonge Street, Toronto, ON

TVO Media Education Group (TVO) is devoted to inspiring learning that changes lives and enriches communities. We are an internationally recognized digital learning organization that strives to engage, inform, and educate Ontarians of all ages.

We are an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Education and a registered charity that contributes to learning, civic engagement, and public service media across Ontario. We provide free, trusted, and accessible educational content that can support Ontarians of all ages, regardless of background, location, or circumstance. To fulfil our mandate, TVO delivers curriculum-connected resources through TVO Learn and TVOkids, offers Ontario's largest online high school through TVO ILC, and produces journalism, documentaries, current affairs programming, and podcasts with TVO Today that help Ontarians understand the issues shaping their communities.

TVO is looking for Secondary Curriculum Specialist in the subject area of Physics & Chemistry who can begin as soon as possible.

The Curriculum Specialist will apply a proven understanding of transferable skills, deep knowledge of curriculum expectations for deep learning and best practices in student-centered online learning to guide and inform the creation and review of online learning courses for TVO. Your work will entail meeting the provincial standard for curriculum expectations in physics and chemistry, through the development, creation, and review of learning activities in online formats.

• Provide educational expertise in designing, developing, and implementing policies and programs for curriculum and assessment
• Collaborate with staff, teams, and external service providers to build out course design requirements, review physics and chemistry courses and course components as they are iterated, and assist with user experience testing
• Collaborate with teacher writers to align course pedagogy with active learning and to plan for course interactivity
• Work with a cross-functional team to inform the creation of engaging, interactive, rigorous and relevant course content that is rooted in cutting edge pedagogy
• Present engaging, interactive, rigorous and relevant courses that support learners of diverse backgrounds and ages
• Accountable for course quality to contribute to rates of course completion and student success and ensure that the final product is error-free and reflects the excellence expected in Ontario’s educational landscape
• Follow TVO's Educational Blueprint in all development activities
• Review, provide feedback on, and in certain cases co-author course content and related documentation, in keeping with TVO's quality and time requirements
• Build team capacity through pedagogical leadership to serve a diverse learner population
• Inform and review the creation of course content and digital learning activities
• Analyze and interpret data sets for provincial, national, and international student success (e.g. EQAO, TIMSS, PISA) to inform development of secondary content in all subject areas.
• Support testing of educational content with learner groups

• Performs other directly related duties.
• Communicate progress and opportunities throughout the life of a project

• Bachelor of Education, intermediate/senior in subject areas of Intermediate/Senior Physics & Chemistry with additional education or training in a related field (Master of Education an asset)
• Inte…