10-11th ELA Associate Instructor

Title: Saturday Academy Associate Instructor, 10-11th ELA [Fall 2024]

Reports To: Senior Manager of Teaching and Learning

FLSA: Part-time, Seasonal 

Location:  New York City, in-person. 

Dates: Fall Semester. Orientations: 9/18 and 9/21; Saturday Academy dates: 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23, 12/7, 12/14.

Compensation: $40/hr for 6 standard (required) + 4 flex (use as needed) hours per week

There will also be opportunities for Spring Saturday Academy and Summer Academy in the future.

 

About SEO Scholars

SEO Scholars is a non-profit focused on improving educational outcomes for students that come from underserved and historically underrepresented backgrounds. Our free eight-year academic program gets low-income public high school students to and through college–with a 100% college admissions rate and 90% college graduation rate. For 60 years, SEO has been an innovator in education and mentorship programs. We are on a mission to create an ecosystem of excellence in which our students can achieve their full potential.

Associate Instructors will join SEO’s community of passionate educators to implement a rigorous college prep curriculum for motivated and driven high school students.  Using our original curriculum and a student-centered approach to teaching and learning, Associate Instructors play an integral part in supporting our Scholars’ journeys to a competitive college and beyond. Associate Instructors promote depth of understanding and skill acquisition by serving as a coach and facilitator of learning. Associate Instructors co-teach ELA and Identity & Empowerment for 9th or 10th grade Scholars.

Associate Instructors are the first to cover classes when instructors are out or they co-teach alongside Instructors to facilitate classroom instruction, teach mini lessons, organize small group and one-on-one instruction, and provide additional Scholar support. Associate Instructors lead lunchtime tutoring. Associate Instructors do not have grading responsibilities.

The Courses

Associate Instructors will be placed in either 10th or 11th Grade. The courses offered in the Fall semester are:

10th Grade ELA course: Exploring Arguments11th Grade ELA course:  Personal Statement Writing

ELA Instructional staff also teach our Identity and Empowerment (IE) class. SEO’s IE classes are designed to prepare Scholars for academic and social success. Throughout their time in SEO’s High School Scholars program, Scholars will be engaged with content in IE that will position them to develop as innovative leaders, ones who use their knowledge and experience to both challenge and inform suppositions about the world. Based on Associate Instructors’ grade placements, they will teach the following IE courses: 

10th Grade IE course: Intersectionality 11th Grade IE course: Self-Exploration and Relationship Building

• During 11th Grade, Scholars are paired with mentor volunteers who occasionally join IE to share and participate along with their mentee. 11th Grade ELA/IE Instructors and Associate Instructors facilitate these mentor classes. 

The Sites

Saturday Academy takes place at one of our partner sites through the semester where the Associate Instructor will be placed based on the grade level they are assigned:

10th Grade: Baruch College, (Vertical Campus Building, 55 Lexington Ave., New York).11th Grade: LIU Brooklyn, (1 University Plaza, Brooklyn).

Occasionally, Orientations and/or Professional Development for all grade assignments will be held either on Zoom or at the SEO Office:

• 55 Exchange Place, New York, NY (Financial District).

Dates, Weekly Hours, and Compensation:

• Staff Orientation:
• Orientation, held on Zoom on the evening of 9/18
• On-site Kickoff: during the day on 9/21
• Saturday Academy: Typically, 3 Saturdays a month. Please note that due to our staffing needs and only seeing Scholars once a week, we can only support staff who will be present for at least 80% of programming days. 
• 10th & 11th Grade Saturday Academy: 
• 9 Programming Saturdays: 9/28, 10/5, 10/19, 10/26, 11/9, 11/16, 11/23, 12/7, 12/14

The Associate Instructors are allotted 10 maximum hours per week during their seasonal employment, made up of Standard and Flex Hours.

• Standard Hours are when the associate instructor must be working on site with staff or