9th-10th Math Instructor (Fall 2024)

Title: Saturday Academy Associate Instructor (Math)
FLSA: Part-time, Seasonal
Department: SF Scholars Program
Reports To: Manager of Teaching & Learning
Compensation: $40 (Hourly)
Location: In-Person – UC Law campus in San Francisco or Berkeley City College campus in Berkeley
Dates: Spring Semester; Exact Saturday dates vary based on which grade the Instructor is placed (see specific dates below)

POSITION OVERVIEW

Associate Instructors will join SEO’s community of passionate educators to implement a rigorous college prep curriculum for motivated and driven high school students.  Associates 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 do not have grading responsibilities.

DATES, SCHEDULE, & WEEKLY HOURS

• Instructor Orientation:
  • 10th Grade Instructor Orientation: 1/18; 9:00am-2:30pm
  • 9th Grade Instructor Orientation: 2/8; 9:00-2:30pm
    
    
• Spring Saturday Academy: Typically 3 Saturdays a month, exact dates vary. Due to our staffing needs and only seeing Scholars once a week, we cannot support more than 2 absences a semester. Saturday Academy Programming is held on campus from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM (PT) on the following Saturdays:
  
  
  • 10th Grade: Feb 1, 8: Mar 1, 8, 15, 22; Apr 12, 19, 26; May 10
  • 9th Grade: Mar 1, 8, 15, 22; Apr 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10
    
    
• Schedule: 9am-4pm, with a 50 minute lunch break from 11:30-12:20
  • Co-teach four 50-minute lessons to groups of approximately 25-30 Scholars. Your schedule will also include an instructional prep period.
    
    
• Weekly Hours:
  • Associate Instructors are allotted 8 maximum hours per week during their seasonal employment, made up of Standard and Flex Hours.
• Standard Hours: working on site with staff or students instructing a class or engaging with an instructional prep or support period:
  • Saturdays, 9:00am-4:00pm (with a 50 minute lunch) = ~6 Hours/weekly
• Flex Hours are time spent preparing for the lesson, grading, entering gradebook data, writing Scholar feedback, communicating with staff and Scholars, etc. These are hours put in outside of the required schedule and can be completed asynchronously throughout the week = up to 2 Flex Hours/weekly

SITE LOCATIONS:

Saturday Academy Programming will take place at either:

• UC Law campus: 200 McAllister St, San Francisco, CA 94102; off the Civic Center BART stop
• Berkeley City College: 2050 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94704; off the Downtown Berkeley BART stop

COURSES:

• 9th Grade: Numbers and Operations, Graphs and Relationships, and Algebra/Pattern and Structure Courses
  • Skills include: properties of numbers; expressions, equations, and identities; ratio and rate; percentages; proportional reasoning; irrational numbers; linear, quadratic, and exponential functions (including compound growth formula); algebraic representation of functions; graphing functions and identifying key characteristics; modeling real-world situations with functions; systems of equations and inequalities; algebra with exponents; fractional exponents and roots; algebra with rational expressions and equations; properties 2D and 3D geometric figures; introduction to coordinate geometry.
    
    
• 10th Grade: Trigonometry, Precalculus, and SAT Math Courses
  • Skills include: triangle geometry and special triangles; trigonometric functions; inverse trig functions; radian measure; the unit circle; graphing and modeling with sine and cosine functions; unit analysis; function notation, including function composition and inverse functions; characteristics of graphs; transformations of graphs; average rate of change; introduction to limits; introduction to the derivative and the power rule; and content covered on the new digital SAT.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Instruction & Facilitation – Co-each four periods of math coursework. Follow provided lesson plans and meet lesson objectives, abiding by SEO’s criteria for rigorous instruction and student engagement.
• Navigate Instructional Technologies – Faci