Summer Instructor - Robotics/STEM (PS 297)

Good Shepherd Services

Brooklyn, NY

JOB DETAILS
SALARY
LOCATION
Brooklyn, NY
POSTED
13 days ago

The Summer Robotics/STEM Instructor teaches and facilitates a youth centered class tailored to their specific expertise. Candidates with the following expertise are encouraged to apply:

  • Robotics & Coding: Instruct and support students in designing, programming robots using coding platform Vex Go and various STEM tools, and VR system equipment.

Reports To: Program Manager

Location: COMPASS PS 297 - 700 Park Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11206

Hours: 8 - 10 hours / week; Non Exempt, July - Mid August

Salary: $19.50 / HR - $25.50

Major Duties:

  • Prepare and develop age, and skill-appropriate curriculum, lesson plans, activities, and special projects that fuse the arts and academic competencies to be reviewed by supervisors before being taught.
  • Work with program participants to develop their artistic, educational, and leadership potential.
  • Pre-planning of activity; activities are to provide students with structure, purposeful use of activity and self, including beginning and ending rituals.
  • Facilitate a variety of scaffolded activities based on students’ interest. Activities should promote teamwork, opportunity for mastery, and emotional and professional growth.
  • Facilitate purposeful activities in community hour and participate in other staff lead activities as part of the staff team.
  • Foster a youth development, strength’s-based environment, fostering a sense of belonging, safety, and community to participants.
  • Engage and facilitate group conversations, tracking and supporting students’ academic success.
  • Attend and participate in staff meetings.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree preferred with professional experience.
  • Must be at least 18 years old.
  • High School Diploma or GED required.
  • Experience and/or training relevant to the position required.
  • Candidates with some college, experience with adolescents and teaching/coaching youth are encouraged to apply.
  • Flexibility, creativity, and enthusiasm for young people
  • Excellent planning, organization and time management skills
  • Ability to engage youth, while setting structure and limits in a group setting.
  • Energetic, motivated self-starter and a team player
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

About the Company

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Good Shepherd Services

Good Shepherd Services is a leading multi-service agency with more than 85 programs that serve over 30,000 youth and families each year – and builds on their strengths to help them gain skills for success.  At Good Shepherd we respect the dignity and worth of every person and reject intolerance, inequity and injustice in whatever form it may take. Voted one of the top 100 places to work in NYC by Crain’s New York, Good Shepherd Services offers a fantastic work environment, a collaborative team dedicated to fulfilling our mission, and an amazing array of benefits. Join our team and help make a difference!

COMPANY SIZE
1,000 to 1,499 employees
INDUSTRY
Nonprofit Charitable Organizations
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Paid Sick Days, Prescription Drug Coverage, Professional Development, Employee Referral Program, Flexible Spending Accounts, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Life Insurance
WEBSITE
https://goodshepherds.org/