Description

Charlotte Latin School has an exciting opportunity for a Student Leadership Development Teaching Fellow beginning August 2024. The Student Leadership Development Teaching Fellow is a one-year appointment for a recent college graduate considering the fields of teaching, youth development, leadership development, and community-engaged learning as a lifelong pursuit and career. At Latin, the Student Leadership Development Teaching Fellow will have the opportunity to engage in various school-specific experiences with the same access to opportunities and professional development as full-time faculty. Possible experiences include teaching, sponsoring a club, coaching, attending conferences, and chaperoning domestic, international, Leadership Development, or Community-Engaged Learning related travel experiences.

Successful Student Leadership Development Fellows can re-commit to one (1) additional year in consultation with the Director of Student Leadership Development and the Associate Head of School.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Co-teach Student Leadership Development classes in Lower School and Middle School.

  • Design and expand the student leadership curriculum.

  • Partner with Lower School families and Lower School take-home initiatives.

• Co-facilitate high and low challenge and ropes courses on the Charlotte Latin campus.

  • Learn to set up challenge and ropes course elements.

  • Learn facilitation techniques.

• Facilitate co-curricular student leadership endeavors in Middle School and Upper School.

  • Examples include the Student Athletic Leadership Team (SALT), North Carolina Outward Bound School, Outdoors Club, and Hawks LEAD.

• Support the student service projects through the TK-12 Community-Engaged Learning (CEL) program.

  • Examples include participation in the CEL TK-12 Committee, leading the Upper School service hour approval process, supporting school-wide service projects, and other programming as identified.

• Participate in ongoing professional development alongside other new faculty members.

• Attend experiential educational and leadership development professional development conferences and training.

• Commit to supporting the development of students as individuals.

• Foster critical thinking skills.

• Build connections between course content and community.

• Engage in the broader work of the Student Leadership Development Department and Charlotte Latin School.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None

Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution of higher education on or before June 30, 2024.

• Background or interest in student leadership development, community-engaged learning, experiential education, and outdoor adventure education.

• At most, three years of working experience is preferred.

• Experience with experiential education is preferred; willingness to obtain a challenge course certification is required.

Skills

• Exhibit a love of working with youth.

• Devoted to meeting the whole child's needs academic, social, emotional, and developmental.

• Committed to safety and the well-being of our school community.

• Exhibit willingness to adapt to new and innovative teaching methodologies.

• Show great flexibility in working with colleagues and students and sharing classroom space.

• Willing and able to build a strong rapport with colleagues, be a collaborative team player, and resolve conflicts with colleagues, parents, and between students.

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written.

• Proficient with using technology as an instructional complement, proficiency in Google Suite.

• Commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging efforts.

Working Conditions and Environment

• Intermittently lift, carry, push, and pull up to 25 pounds.

• Continuously see, sit, balance, grasp, and have repetitive use of arms, wrists, hands, and fingers; and some fine finger dexterity.

• Frequently talk and hear.

• Intermittently stand, stoop, bend, twist, crouch, kneel, crawl, walk, climb stairs, step stools and ladders, operate foot and hand controls, squeeze, and reach above shoulders.

• Exposure to dust, chemicals, fumes, flammables, grease, dirt, stacked materials, electrical equipment, machinery, low to medium noise levels, and moderate indoor temperatures of heat and cold

• Long or odd hours, as needed.