Madrone: Harvard Intern Positions at WUaS - 1 Teaching Intern - Managing 2 STEM Teaching Intern 3 Humanities, Languages, Social Sciences Teaching Intern

Thanks to a Harvard Professor of Education, World University is sharing some WUaS intern positions that Harvard email listserv.

The 3 internships are:


1 Teaching Intern - Managing


2 STEM Teaching Intern


3 Humanities, Languages, Social Sciences Teaching Intern



And here's an example of the

"Teaching Intern - Managing" position ...

World University and School

http://worlduniversityandschool.org  

P.O. Box 442 (86 Ridgecrest Road),

Canyon, CA 94516

Teaching Intern - Managing

● name of intern/volunteer position

Teaching Intern – Managing

● name & address of the service site (i.e., the name of your school, agency, nonprofit)

World University and School

● department or office in which student will be employed

WUaS academic teaching department

● location where student will perform duties

Personal computer with broadband

● name of student’s on­site supervisor

Scott MacLeod

● purpose / role of position within the organization

The purpose of this position within World University and School, as our first intern teaching-focused position, is to begin to develop the academic wiki subject pages at WUaS in terms of flourishing teaching, and eventually for matriculated students first working toward a CC best STEM-centric accrediting baccalaureate undergraduate degree.  

Generate an online learning-oriented conversation, toward flourishing and very enjoyable knowledge-generation in a wide variety of ways.

● duties & responsibilities associated with position & how it relates to purpose / role

To begin, Interns will

· Aggregate & curate online content to become familiar with WUaS as Wiki - in all of these wiki (editable) Subjects - http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Subjects - and eventually in many languages (and eventually too in these ~12 main areas WUaS areas - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/ - (part way down))

· Add and create resources to World University as forms of teaching

· Explain about WUaS

· Reach out to build community through online open instruction

· Grade eventually when WUaS has matriculated students - (http://worlduniversity.wikia.com/wiki/Assessment_and_Grading_at_WUaS_as_Part_of_Conversation_in_Learning)

· Instruction – e.g. create a video about your teaching interests at Harvard, for example, and add this to a WUaS wiki subject, or create a video about how World University and School works in all of WUaS' many, many facets, planned languages and countries

· If WUaS gets more than one intern, this position will also manage other 1-2 other interns

Key job responsibilities also include:

- Targets key WUaS Subjects to develop and live communities of learning to reach out to

- Analyze matriculated students and open wiki learners’ goals, strategies and directions to develop compelling learning resources

- Formally engages and leads 2-3 person multi-disciplinary teams in developing complex solutions for specific planned student populations and by engaging deliverables such as a Request For Information (RFI), Request For Proposal (RFP), and Statements Of Work (SOWs) or presentations

- May lead Harvard intern presentations to guide learning solutions to senior WUaS executives, including CEO, CFO, CIO, Boards of Directors, and Evaluation Committees

- Acts as the single point of client contact for all WUaS Harvard academic intern activities

- Makes decisions on the scope of a specific academic subject, with overall outreach responsibility for the developing wiki subjects to the students

- May manage multiple opportunities concurrently

- Generate positive attitudes as WUaS scales large

Additional characteristics that will help make candidate successful:

· Background in 2 or more multiple academic fields

· Demonstrated leadership capabilities

· Logical, detail-oriented and well-organized working style

· Ability to work both independently and in a team setting

· Creative

· Interpersonal sensitivity

● rates of pay for position: (2015 - ­2016 academic year)

Unpaid

● general qualifications for the position

High achievement oriented academic focus as a Harvard graduate student having taken courses both in the sciences and in humanities / social sciences/languages.

● length of student employment ­ beginning & end

September 2015-June 2016

● general work shifts available ­ days / times

2-10 hours per week

● orientation and training

Orientation and training will be held in Google + group video Hangouts or similar, and these videos themselves will become training videos for future reference.

● evaluation process & schedule

Evaluation will include consideration of resources added and taught

Further considerations

● What will volunteers/interns do at your site(s)?

Aggregate, curate and instruct online at WUaS in creative ways

● Who benefits from the work a volunteer/intern does at your site(s)?

Matriculated WUaS students will benefit from what the intern does, on the one hand, and the open teaching and learning WUaS community of the wiki, will benefit on the other hand.

● What is different or better after the volunteer/intern work is done?

More excellent resources will become available to learners and teachers, especially matriculated students, thus growing an academic conversation and knowledge generation focus of WUaS.

● Is the impact of the volunteer/intern work short ­term, long ­term or both?

The impact of the intern’s work is cumulative and long term.

World University and School is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. WUaS is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. WUaS will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.

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