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About the Role
City Parks Foundation Learning Gardens seeks a Part-Time Educator to implement established lesson plans in their current curricula as part of the school day program through May. This includes sessions in the classroom and outdoors for elementary and middle school grades.
Responsibilities
- Serve as a part-time educator for Learning Gardens school day elementary program spanning February - May with regularly scheduled classes in gardens and school classrooms
- Implement a curriculum in person, which includes indoor and outdoor sessions with hands-on activities including small animal handling, gardening activities, and food preparation
- Help to shape curricula by providing relevant feedback
- Assist in maintaining education department resources including gardening tools, and supplies
- Implement assessment tools to measure the learning outcomes of the program
- Complete general administrative duties as needed including record-keeping and reporting requirements
- Assist with maintenance tasks in Learning Gardens growing spaces as needed for school day programming including weeding, transplanting, direct seeding, compost, etc
- Continually investigate best practices through your own professional development in topics such as child development, environmental studies, and pedagogy
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Education/Science, Environmental Studies or equivalent direct experience in environmental science education in non-formal settings
- A minimum of two years of teaching experience with outdoor and experiential learning
- Demonstrated elementary and/or middle school classroom management skills including the ability to instruct different types of learners
- Demonstrated success working with diverse students, especially youth from low-income communities
- Excellent written and verbal communication as well as problem-solving skills
- Strong proficiency in Google Drive and Office applications (docs, sheets, slides, sites)
- Interest in teaching culturally relevant gardening lessons and promoting sustainable eating
- Willingness to travel alone on public transportation to sites throughout New York City
- Driver's license and willingness to drive in NYC a plus
- Willingness to work outdoors in sometimes uncomfortable weather conditions
- The ability to work both independently and as part of a team is essential
- Self-starter with a positive, can-do attitude and consistent follow-through
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.
- City Parks Foundation does not offer visa sponsorship.
Skills
- Outdoor and experiential learning
- Elementary and/or middle school classroom management
- Instructing different types of learners
- Working with diverse students
- Written and verbal communication
- Problem-solving
- Google Drive
- Office applications (docs, sheets, slides, sites)
- Culturally relevant gardening lessons
- Promoting sustainable eating
- Independent work
- Teamwork
Location
- New York City
Work Type
- Part-Time
Experience Level
- Minimum of two years of teaching experience
Education Level
- Bachelor’s Degree in Education, Agriculture, Sustainability, Environmental Education/Science, Environmental Studies or equivalent direct experience
Salary/Compensations
- $25.00 - $27.00 per hour (15-20 hrs/week)
About the Company
- At City Parks Foundation (CPF), we are dedicated to invigorating and transforming New York City parks into dynamic, vibrant centers of urban life through arts, environmental education, sports, and community building programs for all New Yorkers.
- Our ethos is simple: we believe thriving parks mean thriving communities.
- Community engagement includes Partnerships for Parks, a public-private program of City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks, which supports and champions a growing network of community leaders who care and advocate for the transformation of our neighborhood parks and the Parks and Open Space Partners-NYC coalition of conservancies and alliances.
- We also administer the NYC Green Fund, a regranting program for parks and open space nonprofits and grassroots organizations.
- We produce SummerStage, the iconic free, outdoor performing arts festival in NYC, presenting world-class artists from across the globe and our own neighborhoods on our mainstage in Central Park and in local parks in all five boroughs, and our Swedish Cottage Marionette Theatre and roving PuppetMobile present marionette puppet theater throughout New York City.
- We connect youngsters to nature in the urban environment through progressive, experiential teaching.
- Using parks as classrooms, we provide learning experiences and hands-on activities in urban forests, coastal areas, and gardens.
- Free golf, tennis, track & field, soccer, and fitness programs bring high-quality instruction and equipment into areas where few organized athletic opportunities exist.
- We offer leveled training, year-round scholarship coaching, and special pro events.