Johns Hopkins CTY Online Educator

The Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) is a center for innovation dedicated to advancing the field of gifted education through research on testing, programs, and other supports for advanced learners. On the premise that advanced learners come from every community and every demographic, we aim to understand and inform how these students need to be nurtured to achieve their full potential as learners and global citizens. CTY also runs in-person and online academic programs for bright learners in order to cultivate a community of advanced learners and connect students in and outside the classroom.

We are seeking a CTY Educators with expertise in the relevant content area to develop and deliver academic experiences for advanced learners that are rigorous, novel for CTY students in content or approach, and foster a fun peer community. CTY Educators are responsible for planning and leading their courses within the parameters of a course guide. They create classroom activities... for the relevant modality and design out-of-class assignments and projects that support the course learning objectives. The emphasis is on facilitated learning over direct instruction. CTY Educators provide students with meaningful feedback on their work throughout the course and complete end-of-course assessments. They also contribute to action research that advances CTY?s goals as a center for innovation.

CTY Educator Course Topics include:

Reading Challenge

Be a Biologist!

Be an Environmental Scientist!

The Ancient World: Ancient Egypt

Inventions: Catapults

Way to Win: Introduction to Game Theory

Data and Chance

Numbers: Zero to Infinity

Physics of Sports

Mathematics of Money

CTY Educators join a community of professional peers. They complete pre-session training and onboarding activities, collaborate with colleagues on lesson planning and strategies, attend occasional staff meetings and participate in ongoing professional learning. Please visit cty.jhu.edu for more information about our programming.

To apply online for an Educator position, please visit the JHU Jobs site and apply:
https://jobs.jhu.edu/search/?createNewAlert=false&q=CTY&optionsFacetsDD_facility=&optionsFacetsDD_dept=&optionsFacetsDD_shifttype=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield1=&optionsFacetsDD_state=&optionsFacetsDD_customfield2=

Only candidates with independent teaching experience and coursework in the discipline will be considered. Desired qualifications include experience with students.

For more information about the Instructor position, please contact [email protected]

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: $21.17 - $37.07 per hour

Expected hours: 5 ? 10 per week

Work Location: Remote

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