Greenschool Educator

Description:

Children’s Education seeks 2 Educators for the GreenSchool. GreenSchool offers cross-disciplinary workshops and tours using plants as a lens for inquiry and phenomena-based science explorations to school groups inside the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and throughout the Garden grounds. Educators lead programs with the goal of student experiential learning and appreciation of the natural world. Educators organize and maintain program supplies, plants and classroom space.

Additionally, this position supports, through actions and conduct, NYBG’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility initiatives and actively helps to build and maintain an inclusive organizational culture throughout the institution.

Specific Duties & Responsibilities
· Use Garden curriculum to facilitate workshops and tours for Pre-kindergarten through 8th
grade school groups (all ability levels, including children with learning differences) using
inquiry and phenomena-based teaching practices
· Participate in a professional learning community of informal science educators to build
hands-on, effective practices that support students to:
o Explore real world phenomena
o Think like scientists
o Learn through discussions
o Connect to lived experiences
· Organize and maintain program supplies, plants and classroom space.
· Efficiently manage set-up of teaching supplies each morning, followed by the cleanup,
inventory and preparation of materials each afternoon.
· Participate in on-going assessment of program facilitation; including reflecting on practice
through peer observations and leading programs in other Children’s Education facilities as
opportunities arise, experimenting and improving GreenSchool lesson plans that enhance
student experience.
· Solicit teacher evaluation of education programs.