Overview
Support the Youth Education team in preparing and facilitating the Newcomer Youth Summer Academy, a program for newly arrived immigrant youth to succeed in the New York City public school system.
Key Responsibilities
- Support Youth Education Supervisor with administrative tasks including ensuring lesson plans are submitted on time, reviewing lesson plans, assisting with classroom observations, and communicating with the Student Support Team and Operations team.
- Assist teachers in the classroom as needed.
- Support NYSA YESOL Academic Lead Teacher with creation of class material and direction of the class.
- Assist with instruction during in-person youth and parent YESOL classes, including providing opportunities for differentiation and scaffolding, leading activities, providing one-to-one support, assisting with emotional scaffolding, providing translation when necessary, and participating in the chat.
- Collaborate with the Youth Education Specialist to design and revise pre- and post-assessments, school readiness surveys, and response surveys.
- Support the collection, organization, and cleaning of quantitative and qualitative data.
- Maintain accurate records of assessment results and ensure timely data entry and verification.
- Assist in analyzing assessment and survey data.
- Contribute to summary reports, visualizations, impact summaries, and presentations of findings.
- Help track progress against program indicators and support documentation of lessons learned.
- Participate in team meetings and offer insights from data trends.
- Complete all staff training prior to the start of the program, as well as all program meetings and staff development activities thereafter.
- Support program rollout, including facilitating student orientation, teacher and staff training.
- Support program wrap-up, including survey reminders and analysis, staff follow-up and debrief.
- Model appropriate student behavior and academic engagement with the Academy students.
- Assist in supervision of daily student meals and student arrival/dismissal as needed.
- Other tasks as assigned by Youth Education Supervisor and Youth Education Specialists.
Required Experience
- Experience in education programming or teaching preferred
- Experience working with children and/or peers highly desired
Qualifications
Recent or current undergraduate student or graduate student working towards a degree in Education or related field.
