Overview
The Youth Education Intern will assist the Youth Education department in supporting refugee and asylee children to meet their short-term and long-term education goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Assist in organizing and facilitating online after-school and in-person Saturday TOAD programming.
- Support Youth ESOL Specialist with creation of class material and direction of the class.
- Assist with instruction during online youth classes, including providing opportunities for differentiation and scaffolding.
- Support with material and program development.
- Lead in-person Saturday Parent ESOL classes with guidance from Youth ESOL Specialist.
- Assist with intake process and assessments for students entering and exiting the program.
- Complete logistical tasks as needed.
- Assist with organizing and facilitating weekly LIT Workshops.
- Support the Youth Education Specialist with reviewing and proofreading student documents.
- Assist with recruitment, outreach, and maintaining regular engagement with participants.
- Support the planning and coordination of field trips, campus visits, and enrichment activities.
- Provide general program support including communications, curriculum planning, and documentation.
- Collaborate with the Youth Education Specialist to design and revise pre- and post-assessments, school readiness surveys, and response surveys.
- Support the collection, organization, and cleaning of quantitative and qualitative data related to Youth Education programs.
- Maintain accurate records of assessment results and ensure timely data entry and verification.
- Assist in analyzing assessment and survey data to help inform program development and curriculum adjustments.
- Contribute to summary reports, annual report, visualizations, impact summaries and presentations of findings.
- Help track progress against program indicators and support documentation of lessons learned.
- Research best practices in newcomer youth education.
- Assist in the facilitation of Mini-NYSA including planning and leading some lessons as assigned.
- Assist in creating a scope and sequence for NYSA classes.
- Create sample lesson plans for incoming NYSA instructors.
- Assist in the update of NYSA teacher training.
- Collaborate with youth education team on creating Math, English, and School Readiness assessments.
- Facilitate assessments to enrolling NYSA students online and in-person.
- Create elective schedules for Upper School NYSA students.
- Track and document all activities related to youth education and tutoring in the appropriate internal database system.
- Complete and submit all trainings and professional development by deadline, as assigned.
- Uphold and promote policies and practices necessary to create a linguistically supportive, culturally responsive, trauma-informed learning environment.
- Uphold all IRC and program and child safeguarding policies and directives.
- Work and communicate with IRC staff and volunteers as needed.
- Complete assigned surveys and data tracking tasks, as assigned.
- Complete and submit a weekly timesheet on Golden platform to track and codify IRC volunteer hours.
- Support Mini-NYSA and NYSA programming, in-person programming held during NYC DOE school breaks.
Required Experience
- Experience in ESOL, ENL, ELL highly preferred.
- Experience or strong interest in working with refugee and immigrant children.
Qualifications
Current undergraduate or graduate student, or recent graduate (Preference will be given to candidates with degrees in Education or related fields)
