Curriculum developer
Location(s): Multiple LocationsExpected Hours: Flexible: The program staff work 10-5pm on weekdays, but candidates can choose their own hours, barring a weekly meeting with the project manager during her work hours.
Preferred Candidate Stream: Teaching adolescents
Age Group(s): Secondary
Language(s): English
Face-to-face or online: Online
Number of Placements: 3
Theme: Educational Technology, Distance Education, Indigenous Education / Studies, and Rural Education
Position Description
Teacher candidates can choose their own project that fit their interests and help advance their career goals. Below are some specific areas that we are looking for help in, but we are open to hearing your own ideas for projects:
- Bringing rural to the forefront: This project would be helping with curriculum development. We are looking for candidates from rural backgrounds to bring the theme of “rural” to the forefront of our existing curriculum activities. The candidate would evaluate our curriculum activities and identify where more rural themes, values, and resources can be woven in, and then implement these changes.
- Curriculum unit refreshes: This project would also be helping with curriculum development. The candidate would update and refresh one of our existing curriculum units. The units for which we would like to see refreshed are: skills for adulting/living independently, paying for post-secondary education, finding resources and allies to overcome obstacles, finding your transferable skills/creating a resume/applying and interviewing for jobs.
- Create lesson plans for our curriculum units: The candidate would create lesson plans for some of our curriculum units that would give interested teachers an example of how they can incorporate the units into their course.
- Marketing the program to teachers: The candidate would help us come up with and implement strategies to promote the program to teachers and schools.
- Indigenous outreach, recruitment and retention: work with our Indigenous Initiatives Manager to find ways to market the program to Indigenous educators and students. Candidates could also work on creating ways to effectively connect Indigenous students with culturally specific student resources and supports, including programs that bridge the transition between high school and their desired post-secondary institutions.
If you would like to discuss your options before making your selections, the project manager is happy to have a no obligation chat with you – juliet.oshiro@ubc.ca.
Organization Information
Rural eMentoring BC is a free online mentoring program that matches rural youth mentees with post-secondary student mentors. With the advice and guidance of their mentor, rural youth explore their educational and career options, and gain the valuable skills needed to become informed and conscientious adults.