PODS509: Engineering Curriculum Design Curator

Summary

JerseySTEM is a mission-driven professional network of pro-bono contributors dedicated to improving access to STEM education and career pathways for underserved middle school girls in New Jersey. The Engineering Curriculum Design Curator supports the organization by reviewing, updating, organizing, and testing engineering lessons and proposing improvements to activities and instructional materials.

Responsibilities

• You'll review activities and suggest ways to make them even better for middle school girls
• Daily: Check Email, Forward Email, Answer questions by Email for 15mn-30mn
• Monday: Review current material for a Bridge Building experiment or a Solar Spring challenge
• Tuesday: Propose changes/simplifications. Draft a variation of the slides/worksheet
• Wednesday: Join a meeting with the JerseySTEM Curriculum Team to discuss modifications
• Thursday: Receive material ordered from Pitsco, Amazon or Lego to test the experiment
• Friday: Continue drafting the “teacher material” for those experiments

Skills

• Membership is a minimum six-month commitment of approximately six flexible hours per week
• Great for retired teachers, engineers, or anyone who enjoys organizing learning materials
• No Travel or in-person required, unless interested

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Membership is a minimum six-month commitment of approximately six flexible hours per week
• Great for retired teachers, engineers, or anyone who enjoys organizing learning materials

Nice to Haves

• No Travel or in-person required, unless interested

Benefits

• Approximately six flexible hours per week
• $100 refundable deposit, returned after six months of active membership
• K–12 educators, retirees, veterans, interns, and students are exempt from the deposit
• No Travel or in-person required, unless interested