Title: Summer Academy Instructor ELA
Reports To: National Teaching & Learning Manager
FLSA: Parttime Seasonal
Location: MiamiDade County Florida (Remote
Compensation: $40/hr
Dates:
- PreSemester Orientation and Asynchronous Training: Begins in June exact dates to come
- Programming Dates: MondayFriday July 125
There will also be future Saturday opportunities for Fall and Spring semesters.
Position Overview
Instructors will join SEOs community of passionate educators to implement a rigorous college prep curriculum for motivated and driven high school students. Using our original curriculum and a studentcentered approach to teaching and learning instructors play an integral part in supporting our Scholars journeys to a competitive college and beyond. Instructors promote depth of understanding and skill acquisition by serving as a coach and facilitator of learning. Instructors teach English Language Arts (ELA) for 10th Grade Scholars.
SEO Miami is a bichronous program for Scholars with lesson instruction is held 100 online facilitated through Zoom.
The Courses
The 10th Grade English Language Arts (ELA) course offered for Summer Academy is:
- 10th Grade course: Journey into Fiction
Dates Times and Hours:
- Selfguided Asynchronous Instructor Training: New Instructional staff will complete Asynchronous Training that equates to 10 hours of work. This can be completed on your own time and will be completed prior to the start of programming.
- Instructor Orientation: Wednesday June 4th 5:30pm on Zoom
- Summer Academy: 7/17/3 7/77/10 7/147/17 7/217/24
- Professional Development: 7/11 7/18 7/25
- Standard Hours are when the instructor must be working online with staff or students instructing/coteaching a class or engaging with an instructional prep or support period:
- MondayThursday 8:45am1:30pm about 5 Hours/day
- Friday PD 9:30am12:30pm 3 hours
- Flex Hours make up the additional teacher work educators know go into the job. This is time spent grading preparing for the lesson following up with Scholars communicating with staff and Scholars etc. These are hours put in outside of the required schedule and can be completed asynchronously throughout the week
Key Responsibilities:
- Online Instruction & Facilitation CoTeach four to five periods including ELA and Advisory classes. Follow provided lesson plans and meet lesson objectives abiding by SEOs articulated criteria for rigorous instruction and student engagement.
- Navigate Instructional Technologies Learn and efficiently utilize our instructional technologies such as Brightspace (Learning Management System) Nearpod GSuit applications and Zoom chat (instant messaging tool) in a Blended Learning environment.
- Content Preparation Read internalize and practice all lesson plans and materials provided by SEO prior to teaching. Implement thoughtful adjustments to pacing and activities based on specific student needs.
- Grading and RecordKeeping Calculate grades according to rubrics and stipulations in provided lesson plans. Provide actionable growthoriented feedback to students. Complete all grading in a timely manner 1 week turnaround) and keep the electronic gradebook up to date on Brightspace (our LMS).
- Classroom Culture Project an energetic engaging and approachable persona to promote students connection to the content investment in the learning experience and positive relationship to all members of the community.
- Collaboration with SEO Staff and Instructors Attend all scheduled meetings professional development trainings checkins and debriefs and respond to all emails and Zoom chats in a timely manner.
Qualifications:
Required:
- Minimum of a Bachelors degree in content related field
- Teaching certification K12 classroom teaching experience and/or experience teaching at the college or university level
- Online Course Facilitation Experience
- Comfortable with and skilled at navigating technological learning systems
- Expertise and depth of knowledge in advanced high schoollevel ELA
- Experience working with high schoolaged students
- Understanding and practice of studentcentered pedagogy
- Eagerness to engage in conversations analyzing the historical and continued causes of societal ills and challenges.
Preferred:
- Knowledge and experience with Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
- Certifications PD course completions and/or tertiary education in Instructional Technologies
- Experience with Online Learning (or elearning) Tutoring or Instruction other than Emergency Remote Teaching (ERT)
- Florida resident with teaching experience in FL schools.
COMPENSATION & BENEFITS
This position is benefits ineligible in accordance with local state and federal regulations.
The compensation listed in this posting reflects what SEO believes it will pay for this position at the time of this posting. Consistent with applicable law compensation will be determined based on the skills qualifications and experience of the applicant along with the requirements of the position and SEO reserves the right to modify this pay range at any time.
EEOC Policy
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