Coney Island & South Brooklyn Teaching Artists
About The Position
Splat Lab is seeking dynamic, engaging, and adventurous Lead Educators and Teaching Assistants to join our team for after-school residencies and pop-ups. If you are a creative educator looking to grow your practice and thrive in a creative and fun program, this is the place for you! The ideal candidate will have multiple-day availability and is flexible to teach workshops at different schools. We have programs in all parts of NYC but are specifically hiring for: Coney Island Residencies: Consistent Mondays & Tuesdays 3:30-5:30 at several schools starting September South Brooklyn: We also serve schools during the school day through weekly residencies and pop-ups that are being scheduled now About Us: Splat Lab exists for the sole purpose of having fun! We grew out of the world of after-school, where we partner with over 100 schools to provide high-quality and unique enrichment classes for youth. We also work with schools during the day and offer residencies and pop-ups. In the summer, we run camps in Downtown Brooklyn and the Upper West Side. Each Splat class is formatted in 4 open stations: The Main Splat activity, such as making slime, marshmallow towers, or ooze, Splat Create where students can choose from a few activities such as monster puppets or zine making, Open Splat: butcher paper drawing, and Splat Build: cup towers, dominoes, etc.
Requirements
- 1-3 years of working with youth in a leadership role: leading groups in after-school, summer camps, museums, or early childhood settings. Babysitting and 1x1 tutoring experience is not applicable for this role (ok for explorers)
- A dynamic, cool, magnetic personality that will engage all students.
- Strong group management skills with the ability to confidently organize and lead transitions, set up structured projects, and create clear rituals and routines.
- The ability to direct and collaborate with TAs to keep all students excited and on task.
- Experience with strength-based, restorative, positive discipline practices.
- A progressive teaching style
- Strong facilitation and classroom management skills
- Creativity
- STEM knowledge a plus but not required
Nice To Haves
- Museum educators, teaching artists or educators with a background in Montessori, Waldorf, Reggio Emilia etc. are highly encouraged to apply.
- Experience with under-resourced schools and special needs populations will be an advantage for some placements.
Responsibilities
- Lead classes, delegate TAs or support staff from the school, be the point person for residencies
- Work with leads to support classes
- Can work alone, are very experienced (5 years minimum), masters level or similar, highly seasoned and are superstars.
- Support staff from the school
- Mentor TAs and give clear directions for their role in each session
- Debrief and communicate frequently about how to make sure workshops are continually high quality, fun, and smooth
Benefits
- paid set up and clean up time
- all materials come pre-prepped and packed!
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Intern
Education Level
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