New Possibilities Youth Program Teacher

Benefits:

• 401(k)

Job Description: Provide academic supplementation to elementary school students in the Beginnings years of the New Possibilities Youth Program, providing academic learning support, adult leadership, and behavior modeling. The position reports to the Chief Program Officer through the Education Coordinator.

Roles and Responsibilities:
Academic Support

• Assist students with homework, providing added teaching and strengthening grade-level skills
• Provide students with supplemental academic content, especially in reading and math
• Incorporate hands-on learning techniques, games, etc. to reinforce academic skills
• Read to/with students and encourage engagement in reading

Activities

• Oversee projects to reinforce learning and create interest and excitement

Supervision

• Follow, maintain, and adjust to daily plans. Help serve lunch and monitor students
• Oversee students during outside activity time
• Oversee daily dismissal, ensuring that no student is released to an adult other than one pre-registered as cleared for that student’s pick up
• Ensure that the classroom is tidied and ready for other programs at the end of each session

Characteristics

• Unquestionable integrity and honesty
• Team player, capable of working jointly with others and inspiring collaboration
• Warm and engaging, capable of attracting the cooperation of young children
• Energetic and creative, able to develop and pursue a robust future for the Missions NPYP education program
• Committed to improving the education and lives of the poorest of the poor and to the future of Selma

Requirements

• Relate to and interact with the children
• Empathetic, patient, and compassionate
• Work both indoors and outdoors