Instructional Design and Curriculum & Instruction Internship

Welcome to Miaplaza! 

Our vision is to elevate online learning by applying the most successful approaches in virtual education to create an accessible and inclusive homeschool curriculum platform where all students can be successful! Our K-8 platforms include Miacademy, Always Icecream, and Clever Dragons, and our 9-12 options include MiaPrep and MiaPrep Online High School. Our student base is rapidly growing, and we’re hiring for multiple positions across several departments! Our expansion stems from our commitment to providing exceptional educational content and our pursuit of new opportunities. 🚀

➡️ You can hear our CEO, Johannes Ziegler, discuss our company’s values and future here!

Miaplaza is currently looking for 4-5 Curriculum Developer Interns to join us over the summer. The Curriculum Developer Internship Program is a unique opportunity designed to provide you with essential business insights and hands-on experience while contributing to Miaplaza’s innovative approach to education. You can expect to devote about 80% of your time to role specific projects. The other 20% of your time will be spent on job specific training, professional development, and personalized coaching and feedback sessions.

What you’ll do (responsibilities may include):

• You will learn to develop and support the development of a variety of learning materials for a K-12 student audience, including:

  • Asynchronous instructional activities

  • Multiple-choice assessment items

  • Educational video scripts or supplemental help videos

• Perform quality assurance checks on soon-to-be released curriculum materials

• Assist in the creation and implementation of customer seminars

• Assist in the development of a standards-based curriculum organizational system

• Participate in various synchronous and asynchronous professional development and training activities

Schedule:

• The 2025 Curriculum Developer Internship program is an 8-week commitment from June 9, 2025 through August 1, 2025.

• We offer both full-time and part-time internship opportunities.

• Full-time interns are expected to have 30-40 hours of availability each week. This range of hours is designed to offer flexibility in your schedule, and there is ample work available!

• Part-time interns are expected to work 15-20 hours per week.

• What your day-to-day schedule looks like is mostly up to you! You will be expected to attend 2-5 virtual meetings per week that will take place during normal business hours.

What you’ll learn (knowledge and skills to be developed):

Upon completion of Miaplaza’s Curriculum Developer Internship Program, you will develop the following knowledge and skills:

• Comprehensive understanding of the Curriculum Developer role and its responsibilities at Miaplaza

• Ability to develop strong learning objectives and design instructional materials aligned to those objectives

• Ability to apply K-12 distance education best practices to create asynchronous instructional materials that are clear, accessible, inclusive, and engaging

• Proficiency in Miaplaza’s company-wide processes and workflows for effective curriculum creation

Requirements

You may be a good fit if you have (requirements):

• A minimum of 2 years of classroom teaching experience at the K-12 level

• A Bachelor’s degree or higher in Education or a related field

• Must be currently enrolled in an accredited College or University completing an Advanced Degree in Instructional Design, Curriculum and Instruction, or a related fiel