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Teaching Artist
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Brooklyn, NY, United States
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Description
CUP is hiring!
The Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP) is a nonprofit organization that uses the power of design and art to increase meaningful civic engagement. We collaborate with designers, educators, advocates, students, and communities to make educational tools that demystify complex policy and planning issues.
We believe that increasing understanding of how these systems work is the first step to better, more equitable, and more diverse community participation.
CUP is looking for a Teaching Artist to lead a Digital City Study in the summer of 2018 in the Bronx.
CUP’s intensive, project-based curricula enable high school students to explore fundamental questions about how the city works through collaborative research and design. To find answers, students go beyond standard classroom learning and engage in active research, conduct site visits, and interview decision-makers and stakeholders. Students then collaborate with the Teaching Artist to produce innovative, engaging print and digital tools. These projects are taken up by neighborhood organizations and advocacy groups to educate others about the issue.
Teaching Artist Description
The Digital City Studies Teaching Artist will work with CUP, the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), and a group of high school students to investigate New York City’s ecosystem and the individuals that have shaped its distinct identity through free and open source digital media tools.
The responsibilities of this position are to:
+Attend program trainings and develop lesson plans, using CUP’s award-winning methodologies
+Lead program sessions from July 9 to July 20, 2018, Monday through Friday, from 10am to 2pm at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx
+Implement art and design activities
+Teach active research and interview skills
+Manage site visits, community surveys, and stakeholder interviews
+Create a final digital product
+Assist in a final presentation and program evaluation
This position pays a project stipend of $5,500. There is a separate budget for materials and other project costs.
Qualifications
Applicants should have past experience teaching high school students, being the lead in a
classroom, developing art and design activities, and writing curriculum.
The Digital City Studies Teaching Artist will work with CUP and WCS staff to create an interactive website that requires competency in Photoshop or Illustrator, stop-motion animation, and a basic understanding of web design. Applicants without these skills will still be considered and responsible for shaping and managing the execution of the final product with a designer. The Teaching Artist stipend will be adjusted if an additional designer needs to be hired for this project.