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Teaching experience in the mountains of south Spain!

We are looking for:

2 Student teachers /teachers qualified or experienced  in alternative child led education, such as: Free school, Waldorf, Montessori or Forest school methods, to come and be 4 hours a day 4 days a week with our children. We are looking for people enthusiastic about working with children and who are flexible and open to involving parents in projects, who are happy to live in nature and community (with no electricity and a compost toilet!)

Who we are:

We are families living off the grid in a beautiful valley in the countryside in the Sierra Nevada mountains of south Spain. 6 kilometers from Orgiva. Living a simple life close to nature away from main stream society to try get closer to ourselves. We have circa 8 children ages 2.5 – 8 years that we feel would benefit hugely from child led/alternative education here in the mountains, We are low income families who cannot afford the expensive local alternative education.

We are offering:

(On an exchange basis like woofing) Teaching experience in a beautiful place in nature, living in a straw bale house built especially for you, with your food paid for, and organic veg and fruit from our gardens, for 3 month minimum stay (first term 21st September to 21st December this year), and nice warm weather (normally!)

If this is you!

Please send us a paragraph about yourself and your beliefs and about your thoughts in the education of children, Also any qualifications or experience you may have, and ideas/plan you would have for a week with the children. Please send to cheskaj@hotmail.com, for all of us parents, Best wishes to you! 

 

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Apprenticeship Positions Available at Liberated Learners Centers

 

Apprenticeship Positions Available at Liberated Learners Centers

Liberated Learners offers a year-long apprenticeship program to support people to learn the skills and ideas necessary to create and/or work successfully in self-directed learning programs. Liberated Learners is a network of not-for-profit centers based on the North Star model which support teens to live and learn without school. Apprenticeship positions are currently available for the 2016-17 at Princeton Learning Cooperative (in NJ) and Deep Root Center for Self-Directed Learning (in NY).

The apprentice will work closely with the staff at the center in all aspects of running the program, including planning in the summer and closing out the year. The main program responsibilities include: teaching classes, one-on-one tutoring, mentoring teen members, working to build and maintain an engaged community of members and staff, running family meetings, organizing field trips and events, participating in staff meetings, and working with prospective teens and their families.

See the Liberated Learners apprentice page for more information about the apprenticeship program. For questions, contact: info@princetonlearningcooperative.org or 609-851-2522.

 

 

 

 

 
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Reggio Inspired Preschool Teacher for Jewish Preschool in DC Suburb (Job Opportunity)

The Jewish Community Center Preschool in Rockville, MD, outside of Washington DC, is seeking a Reggio-inspired experienced Lead Teacher for two year olds for the 2014-2015 school year.

Our faculty is comprised of deep-thinking educators who value high quality early childhood education and lifelong learning. Our teachers work collaboratively to develop the curriculum around the theories and thinking of our students and to integrate Jewish celebrations and values into the culture of our school. We believe that relationships and dialogue are the basis for a rich learning environment, and seek individuals who desire to be engaged in the work of young children in the context of a wonderful community. Many opportunities for leadership.

We seek individuals with experience in early childhood education or a related field, a degree in ECE or a college degree plus the 90 hour course (or willingness to take the 90 hour course) or equivalent, and forward-thinking, open, progressive, and joyous dispositions. 

Please send a resume and cover letter to slanes@jccgw.org.

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Calling all leaders and visionaries committed to transforming the education system! – The 2014 Education Jam

Education Jam

Calling all leaders and visionaries committed to transforming the education system!

We invite you for a unique opportunity to co-learn, co-create and JAM with a diversity of folks from around the US and beyond, who are working in dynamic ways to change education as we know it.

The second annual Education Jam will take place from July 28th to August 3rd, 2014 at the Wonder Wall Mountain Refuge in Springfield, New Hampshire.

Apply today! Priority application deadline: June 23, 2014.

More about the Education Jam:

30 leaders and visionaries will gather for six days in a beautiful retreat center in the New Hampshire wilderness. We will spend the time building community, deepening in stories and perspectives, sharing places of growth and struggle, and co-creating inspiration and vision.

We will be inviting folks from around the education world: public, private, independent, and charter schools, unschooling, homeschooling, learning communities, youth empowerment, and more. We acknowledge that in the education sector there is a fair amount of division around definitions of the “best way forward”. We also know that across the spectrum, people working in the education world are constantly giving of themselves. The Education Jam will make space to listen and learn from our diversity, engage in new synergies, find inspiration and rejuvenation, and begin to build towards a common vision with each of our own unique contributions.

 

Over the course of the whole Jam, we will have time to engage with questions like:

  • What is your personal story around education? How do your experiences inform the path you have chosen to take?
  • What does learning mean to you? What does unlearning mean to you?
  • What are your traumas and your triumphs around education?
  • When did your heart fully enter this work? How are you fed and sourced in what you do today?
  • How are you living the values and world you are trying to create?
  • What kind of support do you need to help come into deeper alignment with that world? What kind of support can you offer others to support their journey into deeper alignment?

We will use a variety of learning modalities – from movement and bodywork, to storytelling and myth making, to visual and performing arts, to small group dialogues, to whole group conversations. There will be space for silence and for connecting with nature. The Jam will unfold to make space for our whole selves, for our spirits, for one another, for our highest dreams and our deepest fears. All of it will be welcome.

The Jam will create space for transformation on the personal, interpersonal and systemic levels. As with other Jams, we are prepared to be surprised! One hope is that people will have the opportunity to integrate their learnings and carry them home, to be able to find and connect with people who have the heart, spirit, skills and knowledge that they are needing for the next steps of their personal journey and the next steps of our collective journey.

This year’s Education Jam is excited to do some deep dives as a community into the themes of place-based learning, learning from/through/with nature, self-designed learning and design thinking, student leadership development, alternative assessment, and more… We are looking forward to co-creating these deep dives with the experiences, questions, struggles and wisdoms of the community of people who gathering.

Learn more about the 2014 Education Jam and apply here.