What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer Programs Teaching Intern position at Choate Rosemary Hall?
The Choate Rosemary Hall Teaching Internship Program offers current college students and recent college graduates a rewarding opportunity to work in an intellectually stimulating and supportive academic community. Interns have ample opportunity to teach, coach, develop lesson plans, and evaluate student performance, and in turn receive feedback on their teaching from mentor teachers, department heads, and the Coordinator of the Teaching Intern Program. Teaching Interns participate in weekly professional development sessions. The internship program is particularly beneficial to applicants who are interested in teaching in a residential college-preparatory or middle school institution. Approximately 20-24 teaching intern positions are offered each summer in Arts (Acting, Digital Media, Visual Art), English, HPRSS (History, Philosophy, Religion, Social Science), Languages (French, Italian, Latin, Spanish), Mathematics, Computer Science, Robotics, Science (Biology, Chemistry, Environmental Science, Physics), as well as in our Signature Programs and Workshops.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Work with one or two mentor teachers
- Help prepare activities, assignments, quizzes, projects, and other aspects of each assigned course
- Teach a minimum of two full periods in each assigned course
- Provide classroom coverage in assigned or similar courses as applicable and needed
- Observe a minimum of 8 classes (other than one’s own) during the program
- Coach/facilitate afternoon athletics and activities for middle school and high school students
- Chaperone Student Activity trips off campus
- Support the Student Activities Center Directors and Coordinator of Afternoon Athletics & Activities with development, implementation, and chaperoning of Wednesday Community Building activities
- Live in a student dormitory and share advising and supervisory responsibilities with other interns, residential advisers, and head of house
- Serve as the adviser for 8 -10 students
- Proofread Teacher Reports written for each advisee
- Write an adviser report for each advisee
- Attend weekly Professional Development workshops for Teaching Interns
- Write and submit Self-Reflection and Program Evaluation before departing campus at the end of the program
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As part of the application, please make sure to submit the following additional documents:
-Official Transcripts (Please feel free to upload Unofficial Transcripts in lieu of Official Transcripts)