Curriculum Specialist (Intermediate/Senior Physics & Chemistry)
About The Position
TVO Media Education Group is a social impact organization dedicated to inspiring learning that changes lives and enriches communities. TVO is an internationally recognized digital learning organization that strives to engage, inform, and educate Ontarians of all ages. TVO is an agency of the Ontario Ministry of Education, providing multi-platform educational programming, documentaries, public affairs content, the largest online secondary school in Ontario, and award-winning digital-learning resources that support Ontario’s curriculum. TVO is a registered charity funded primarily by the Province of Ontario and supported by thousands of sponsors and donors. This role involves applying a proven understanding of transferable skills, deep knowledge of curriculum expectations for deep learning, and best practices in student-centered online learning to guide and inform the creation and review of online learning courses for TVO. The work entails meeting the provincial standard for curriculum expectations in physics and chemistry through the development, creation, and review of learning activities in online formats.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Education, intermediate/senior in subject areas of Intermediate/Senior Physics & Chemistry with additional education or training in a related field (Master of Education an asset)
- Must be OCT certified
- 5+ years of classroom experience
- Proven ability and experience designing appropriate, accessible, and engaging online educational content for online learning environments
- Ability to develop online learning modules
- Experience implementing Ministry of Education policy and program requirements, e.g. Transferable Skills, Growing Success, and Achieving Excellence
- Understanding of how to build effective and authentic assessment for learning activities
- Experience with projects where digital assets were created
- Strong time management, analytical and interpersonal skills required, along with a high degree of attention to detail
- Excellent grammar, verbal and written communication skills required, including experience in presenting to all levels of leadership
- You live our values: we value bold thinking, we embrace change, we thrive with diverse voices, we honour our commitments, we're better together
Nice To Haves
- preference will be given to bilingual candidates
Responsibilities
- Mentor, coach and build staff capacity to build cutting edge pedagogy into courses
- Provide educational expertise in designing, developing, and implementing policies and programs for curriculum and assessment
- Collaborate with staff, teams, and external service providers to build out course design requirements, review physics and chemistry courses and course components as they are iterated, and assist with user experience testing
- Collaborate with teacher writers to align course pedagogy with active learning and to plan for course interactivity
- Work with a cross-functional team to inform the creation of engaging, interactive, rigorous and relevant course content that is rooted in cutting edge pedagogy
- Present engaging, interactive, rigorous and relevant courses that support learners of diverse backgrounds and ages
- Accountable for course quality to contribute to rates of course completion and student success and ensure that the final product is error-free and reflects the excellence expected in Ontario’s educational landscape
- Follow TVO’s Educational Blueprint in all development activities
- Review, provide feedback on, and in certain cases co-author course content and related documentation, in keeping with TVO's quality and time requirements
- Build team capacity through pedagogical leadership to serve a diverse learner population
- Inform and review the creation of course content and digital learning activities
- Analyze and interpret data sets for provincial, national, and international student success (e.g. EQAO, TIMSS, PISA) to inform development of secondary content in all subject areas.
- Support testing of educational content with learner groups
- Performs other directly related duties.
- Communicate progress and opportunities throughout the life of a project
Benefits
- option to join the Public Service Pension Plan right on day one
- an array of services through our Employee and Family Assistance Plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
