Teacher Classroom Program Facilitator
Job Description
When you join the Behind the Book team, you have the opportunity to work in a creative, innovative, and supportive environment. Share your passion for literacy, kids, and making a difference.
About Behind the Book:
Behind the Book is a literacy non-profit that serves students in Title l NYC public schools. Working with classrooms from Pre-K-12, BtB identifies books that reflect the lives of our students and partners with teachers to create immersive curriculum units. Through a series of workshops, authors discuss their book and teach a genre of writing, encouraging students to see themselves as readers and writers and ultimately guiding them in the creation and publication of their own original writing.
Program Facilitator Description:
Behind the Book seeks a Facilitator to run innovative reading and writing programs in schools. Our goals include engaging students in reading, increasing writing skills, and self-efficacy. Every program is built around a book and its author and is designed in partnership with the author and the classroom teacher. The facilitator brings the curriculum plan to the classroom and coordinates all aspects of the workshops. Facilitator must be vaccinated to enter classrooms, per government mandate.
The program facilitator will be responsible to:
- Conduct classroom workshops to engage students with the BTB program
- Collaborate with the Curriculum Developer to identify the needs of each classroom
- Coordinate logistics for all assigned programs, including field trips, author visits, and volunteer workshops
- Schedule workshop times for all programs
- Collaborate with Behind the Book teaching artists to implement art and drama workshops
- Collaborate with Curriculum team to research and identify books that reflect the demographic and reading level for programs
- Order book sets for classroom programs
- Manage collection of forms for programs, such as student photo releases, teacher agreements, surveys, etc.
- Document and reflect on program successes and challenges as part of our ongoing performance measurement system
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in education or related field
- Meticulous attention to accuracy and detail, the ability to multi‐task, prioritize and meet deadlines
- Proficient in G Suite, PowerPoint, Word, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and able to adapt to technology quickly
- Excellent writing and communication skills
- Ability to engage students with positivity and enthusiasm
- Passion for literacy, reading, and books
- Spanish Speaking (Preferred)
Flexible schedule during school hours excluding the weekly team meeting. 20-25 hours a week.
