Lead Math Instructor (Fall 2024)

Title: Saturday Academy Lead Instructor
FLSA: Part-time, Seasonal
Department: SF Scholars
Reports To: Manager of Teaching & Learning
Compensation: $60 (Hourly)
Location: In-Person – UC Law campus in San Francisco or Berkeley City College campus in Berkeley
Dates: Spring Semester; 1/9-5/24

POSITION OVERVIEW

Lead Instructors will join SEO’s community of passionate educators to implement a rigorous college-prep curriculum for motivated and driven high school Scholars. Bringing pedagogical expertise, grounding in empathy, and developing our instructional community, our Lead Instructors are vital to the growth and success of SEO. Lead Instructors provide direct teacher development and support.

DATES, SCHEDULE, & WEEKLY HOURS

• Orientations
  • Lead Instructor Orientation:
    • 1/9; Virtual from 4:00 - 6:00 pm
  • Leads will help facilitate In-Person Instructor Orientations:
    • 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:
    • Feb 1, 8: Mar 1, 8, 15, 22; Apr 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10
  • Schedule:
    • Arrive by 9:00am for Instructor Morning Huddle
    • Classes start at 9:45 am
    • Typical Lead Instructor Schedules might include:
      • Classroom observations
      • Instructor coaching 1:1s
      • Content meetings with team of instructors
      • Lead and/or participate in SEO Professional Development opportunities
      • Collaborative meetings with SEO staff
      • Independent Work including preparation, instructor data analysis, coaching plan and observation review
    • Dismissal: 4:00 pm.
  • Weekly Hours:
    • Lead Instructors are allotted 12 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) = 5 Hours/weekly
  • Flex Hours: 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 5 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

SEO MATH COURSES:

• 9TH Math: 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 Math: 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

• Coaching and Feedback – Engage in classroom observations,