Teacher Assistant
LOCATION
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Fingerprint/background clearance is required.A security background check will be completed by the organization free of charge. This process takes about 20 minutes. Therefore the intern my start immediately.
SCHEDULE OPTIONS
Semester availability
FallSpring
Summer
Service hours
MorningAfternoon
Weekend
Available days/hours
Monday - Saturday 8am to 5pm
REQUIRED/DESIRED SKILLS
Some knowledge of classroom management
Lesson/activity planning
Team Building
Multi Tasking
Passion for working with school age children
CATEGORIES
EducationMentoring
Youth (direct interaction)
Youth II: 5-11 years (K-6th grades)
Youth III: 11-14 years (6th-9th grades)
Youth IV: 14-18 years (high school)
COMMUNITY PARTNER
Arizona Facts of Life, Inc.
ABOUT THE INTERNSHIP
Duties
Assist in planning, organizing and directing summer/afterschool literacy program
Participate in the preparation and dissemination of educational and informational materials
Create activities that are exciting, fun and safe for the participants
Must act as a role model for program participants and staff demonstrating integrity and virtues
Promote healthy discussions in all settings
Coordinate community service involvement with pertinent agencies for particpants to experience volunteering
Work cooperately with program director in supervising providing activities in support of literacy enrichment program
Identify and provide resources for each facet of the literacy enrichment program
Attend workshops and trainings and needed and directed
Facilitate group activities and work sessions
Uphold AZFOL confidentiality policies, code of ethics, teamwork policies, personnel policy and any other applicable policies
Other related duties as assigned by the program director/executive director
Population served
The intern will work with underserved youth ages 6 to 15 years old from low to moderate income families in the Central City South Community (Valley Christian Center)
Community need/impact
The Central City South Community has been targeted as an underserved comminity with high risk factors affecting the commiunity's health behaviors and outcomes. Sixty one to eighty one percent of the population in this area does not have a high school diploma.(Census, 2000).This community face a shortage of educational, environmental and health services in which they need and can desparately, benefit from such preventive health program that Arizona Facts of Life offer.
Our program gives youth the opportunity to grow and have fun in an environment that's conducive to meeting their needs during the sensitive stage of adolescent/teenage-hood. Such programs not only give them a safe environment but reinforce the social norms contributing to high school success, higher learning and becoming a productive adult.
