Teaching Logistics
Dates: Monday through Thursday Evenings for 5-6 weeks in July-August (specific dates will be chosen in early February)
Location: MIT Campus
Job: Mainly, preparing and teaching an original college-level course for 10-20 High school students. Focus teachers will teach a 44 hour course for the duration for the program and 6 hours of seminar classes distributed throughout the program (more details below)
Pay: $1500 (/may vary year to year/) paid as an Honorarium at the end of the summer
Contact Email: If you are interested, you should email junction@mit.edu before the end of February.
This can be an awesome project! You get to design a full 44 hour course for 10-20 motivated high school students who will be very excited to take your class! As Junction teachers design their own classes, most Junction focus classes do not conform to any standard high school or college curricula. They are intense, exciting, and experimental.
Examples of past focus classes:
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Hands on Topics in Engineering
- Quantum Mechanics
- Molecular Biology
- Introduction to Computer Science
- Show Me the Money: Financial Economics
- Advanced Topics in Mathematics
- Multivariable Calculus
- Introduction to Chemical Engineering
How to Teach for Junction
As the program runs with only 6 to 8 focus teachers, teachers are selected by interview. If you think you may want to teach for Junction this summer (2010), send an email to that effect to junction@mit.edu between now and the end of February. Focus teachers are interviewed in March and their classes are accepted or rejected before the end of March.
We will begin recruiting teachers for seminar classes in late April. There may be opportunities to get paid for teaching multi-session seminars (tentatively, $100 for a 4 session seminar class). However, more definitive information will be available in late April
Requirements for the Job: For the duration of the program,focus teachers should be available 5pm-7pm to teach and 7pm-8pm for Study Hall and Dinner (dinner provided). Additionally, we anticipate that teachers will spend time outside of class preparing for classes and reviewing students’ work and will assist as counselors/administrators for the program on a few specific occasions.
More explicitly, the following are expected of focus teachers:
DURING SPRING
Attending course work sessions
Designing and gathering material for a 44 hour course is a substantial project. Course work sessions are intended to allow Junction teachers to meet each other before the summer and exchange help and advice in designing their curricula and class materials.
Focus teachers are encouraged to come to at least five of the nine two hour course work sessions that will occur in the ESP office in the evening and/or on weekends this term. (scheduling TBA)
Preparing course material
Because of the density of class time over the summer, it is important that Junction teachers begin preparing course material before the term starts. Preparing course material can take anywhere from 1:1 hours of prep : hours of class to 3:1 hours of prep to hours of class.
OVER THE SUMMER
| Typical Daily Schedule | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays | Wednesdays | |||
| 5:00pm-7:00pm | Focus Classes | Focus Classes | ||
| 7:00pm-8:00pm | Group Dinner and teachers are available to talk with students | Teacher dinner and worksession | ||
| 8:00pm-9:30pm | Seminar Classes | Seminar Classes | ||
Teaching a Focus Class
Focus classes will run from 5pm to 7pm every Monday-Thursday during the program.
Dinner
From 7pm to 8pm on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays Junction will provide dinner to both students and teachers. Students will be encouraged to additionally use this time as a social study hall when they can ask teacher questions about assignments and work on problems and projects with other students.
On Wednesdays, Junction will provide dinner only to teachers and the same hour long period will serve as a time for teachers to discuss how their classes are going and make plans for the next week.
Teaching seminar classes
See the section below for more details about seminar classes. We will ask that focus teachers schedule seminars for any 4 late evening periods (8pm-9:30pm) during the summer
Review of Students’ work
As classes should ask students to complete assignments and projects, teachers will need to review this work outside of class. This may require approximately 6-8 hours of time each week outside of class.
Helping as an Administrator
In addition to classes, Junction hopes to run a number of fun activities and projects for students during the program including a daily optional activity from 4:30pm to 5pm for students who arrive early and late night activities from 9:30 to 11:00pm on Thursdays. Thus, periodically, the program may need teachers’ help in running these activities. We estimate that this will accumulate to approximately 6 hours of volunteer help over the course of the entire program. This can be scheduled very flexibly.
COTEACHING
Two teachers may co-teach a single junction class. In this case, each teacher will be expected to attend 5/9 work sessions during term, volunteer as an administrator for 6 hours, and teach 6 hours of seminar class. However, focus class time may be divided arbitrarily between the teachers. Each teacher of a coteaching pair will be paid $1000 (as an Honorarium) at the end of the summer.
Teaching Seminar Classes - Recruitment in Late April
Every evening after dinner there will be an hour and a half in which students will get to attend one of 5 to 8 seminar classes. These classes can be about any topic, academic or otherwise, and will vary in subject and instructor week to week and day to day. Some seminar classes may be multi-session, however many will simply be one-shot classes designed to introduce students to some small amount of awesome material. Students can expect seminar classes to have the variety and excitement of a typical set of Splash! classes. For examples, see the 2008 splash catalog. Like focus classes, seminar classes will require student curiosity and engagement, however most seminar classes will not require any homework for the students outside of class. When applicable, Junction seminars will be taught at college-level, but will have as few prerequisites as possible. Students will be encouraged (but not required) to take seminar classes outside of their focus areas and to attend a diverse range of subjects over the course of the program.
We will begin recruiting teachers for seminar classes in late April. There may be opportunities to get paid for teaching multi-session seminars (tentatively, $100 for a 4 session seminar class). However, more definitive information will be available in late April.
Why Teach for Junction?
Junction offers an amazing opportunity — you get to spend four evenings a week with kids who are interested in your subject!
If you have additional questions, please email junction@mit.edu.
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