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Brooklyn Free School Assistant Teachers – Part Time (Job)

The Brooklyn Free School assistant teachers support the work of the teachers, including managing daily activities, outdoor play and lunch routines. 
 
Brooklyn Free School engages students and staff in democratic decision-making and problem solving. We honor student choice and facilitate student centered learning through play and exploration, constructivist teaching, collaborative course work and self-directed student initiatives. We support social and emotional development through conflict mediation, personal reflection, diversity awareness and community responsibility.  For more information visit our website: www.brooklynfreeschool.org
 
Responsibilities:
  • Supporting the mission and daily practice of a free school with joy and creativity.
  • Daily classroom set up, preparing materials for projects and clean up as directed by the teachers.
  • Communicating with teachers about their needs. following their direction, and anticipating where help is needed in order to support the needs of the whole group.  This may include managing a variety of activities while the teacher works with a small group or working with individual children.
  • Taking children to the playground every day or planning for indoor play in inclement weather.
  • Supervising children’s lunch time.
  • Supporting and facilitating conflict resolution mediation when needed.
  • Occasionally longer days may be required to support group trips or special school activities.
 
Qualifications:
  • Experience working with groups of children preferred.
  • Experience working with children between the ages of 4 and 10 preferred.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
 
Compensation:
Hourly rate commensurate with experience.
The Brooklyn Free School follows the NYC public school calendar.  The assistant teachers will have all school holidays off and the summer months, unpaid.
 
To Apply:
Submit a cover letter describing why you want to work at BFS, current resume, two references, including one from an educational supervisor, and any additional information you think we should consider in evaluating you as a candidate.
 
All materials and inquiries need to be submitted electronically as an attachment or in the body of an email to: hiring@brooklynfreeschool.org
 
The deadline to receive full consideration is Friday May 9th, 2014.
All candidates will be informed if they were selected for an interview on a rolling basis through May 16th, with an anticipated hiring decision made by May 30th.
 
Brooklyn Free School is an equal opportunity employer.  We seek a staff which reflects the diversity of our community.
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Agile Learning Facilitator Summer Intensive (Event)

Agile Learning Centers

Why?

In a world where all information is at your fingertips we understand that success relies not on your ability to memorize or regurgitate facts, but rather to filter, organize, and creatively apply this information. An Agile Learning Center prepares young people to navigate the world by cultivating the skills of entrepreneurialism, digital literacy, resourcefulness, efficient collaboration and self-directed initiative.

What?

Agile Learning Centers are a network of self-directed learning communities creating and curating an open-sourced educational model. We borrow, invent, and evolve leading-edge tools and practices for creating healthy cultures, and share resources within our network to support its continued development.

The structure of an Agile Learning Center is designed to nourish a productive, vibrant, and healthy culture – allowing participants to engage authentically in a learning process that cultivates confidence, dynamic skill sets, mental agility, self-awareness, and group skills.

Agile Learning Centers do not have a traditional curriculum, as in a set of subjects or classes one must take. Instead, we recognize that all social environments have a hidden curriculum which are the real lessons taught by the way social interactions are structured. So we have been conscious to craft the lessons of our environment. These are the lessons we've built into our “curriculum:”

  • Identifying your own needs and priorities,
  • Creating projects which accomplish those priorities,
  • Organizing your time and activities around those projects,
  • Focus and follow through on those projects toward a creative end,
  • Sharing your creative output (in a digital portfolio),
  • Reflecting on personal progress and impediments (in a personal blog),
  • Co-creating a collaborative, supportive social environment,
  • Responsibility for your action and inaction
  • and Digital literacy




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Agile Learning Facilitator (ALF) Intensive

Why?

We believe that when it comes to teaching and learning, the medium is the message. In order to teach honesty, respect, authenticity, initiative, self-direction, follow-through, purpose, and shareable value, you must embody these traits.

We are expanding our network of learning communities and facilitators. To support this development we are providing an opportunity for educators, entrepreneurs, and other passionate people to engage a culture creation process together — to learn about the the tools and practices we use, and invent new ones to produce the desired results.

What?

 

The ALF Intensive program will be held in Charlotte, NC for three weeks beginning on Monday, July 7th.

Week 1 (Agile Intensive):

Participants gain a deeper understanding of the “why” and “how” of the ALC project, and dive right into core concepts that create coherence for this work. Together, we will create and embody the cultural values and social DNA of an Agile Learning Center. Each participant will be fully responsible for showing up, being present, adding value, and co-creating together.

 

Week 2 (Hands-on Engagement):

After spending a week culture hacking together, we will begin working with students in the context of an Agile Learning summer camp, hosted by our ALC here in Charlotte — The Mosaic School (TMS). ALFs will facilitate the camp and gain direct experience with the ALC model.

Week 3 (Reflection and Refinement):

The third week of our intensive offers new ALFs the opportunity to pull back and reflect on their experience. The TMS summer camp will continue running with our experienced ALFs, while new participants will get to flex their culture-hacking muscles by evolving or inventing tools to shift results within the camp. We will wrap up with a process for acknowledging each other’s value and identifying next steps in each participant's personal evolution.

Who?

The Agile Learning Facilitators Intensive is for adults who would like to gain the tools and experience base needed to:

  • Upgrade your organization with Agile Learning Center principles
  • Work as a facilitator in an Agile Learning community
  • Begin the process of starting a new Agile Learning Center




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When?

July 7-25, 2014

Details:

This camp is open to adults ages 18 to infinity.

The cost is $375 for a three week program, food is provided. If you are traveling from outside of Charlotte, we can arrange for a family to host your stay in the city.

Click here to register