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Posted: 14-Feb-22
Location: Miami, Florida
Type: Full Time
Preferred Education: 4 Year Degree
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Internship/Fellowships
For recent college or graduate school graduates who demonstrate academic excellence and who aspire to a career in teaching, Ransom Everglades School (Miami, Florida) has developed a Teaching Fellowship. The Fellowship includes opportunities to teach, coach, be fully engaged in the life of one of the nation’s most outstanding and diverse independent schools, and receive mentorship from world-class faculty.
About Ransom Everglades School
A private institution with a public purpose, Ransom Everglades combines rigorous college preparation with a commitment to leaving the world better than we found it. Ransom Everglades is committed to student-centered, inquiry-based pedagogy in a culture that embraces a wide range of perspectives and points of view, and ensures that all members of the community feel a sense of belonging.
A creative and relevant curriculum includes elective upper school courses such as “Represent: Black Voices in Social Movements,” “Marine Field Research,” and “Advanced Machine Learning,” as well as more advanced college level courses, pathways in Chinese, French, and Portuguese, and robust advisory and wellness programs. Our middle school curriculum features a required Spanish proficiency program, exposure for all students to the visual and performing arts as well as programming and robotics, and physical education as a core component of the student’s schedule. Many opportunities in the visual and performing arts, speech and debate, robotics, and competitive academic teams are a part of a robust co-curricular program. The school has a comprehensive athletic program with over 70 teams among 18 interscholastic sports and that have fielded recent undefeated regular seasons in football, and state championship teams in water polo, soccer, tennis, and volleyball.
The Fellowship
The Ransom Everglades School Teaching Fellowship is an opportunity limited to one academic year. The Fellowship is a total immersion in Ransom Everglades, including experience in classroom teaching and co-curricular activities, as well as mentorship and professional development. If full-time opportunities are available for the year after the term of the Teaching Fellowship concludes, Teaching Fellows may apply for these positions.
All Fellows benefit from the personal supervision and support of an experienced RE mentor teacher. Through this program, the Teaching Fellow will develop the hard and soft skills and experience the training necessary to thrive on the challenges of independent school life.
The Teaching Fellowship is available for those with a specialization in all academic areas, including computer science, English, history, math, social sciences, science, and foreign languages.
Candidates for the Ransom Everglades School Teaching Fellowship are recent graduates of an accredited undergraduate or graduate school, with degrees in or closely related to the field in which the Fellow wishes to teach, and who demonstrate a strong desire to make a career teaching in independent schools. Teaching Fellowships are intended for candidates who have not previously held a full-time faculty position.
At Ransom Everglades, depending on one’s field and experience, Teaching Fellows will teach one or two classes, observe RE master teachers in their classrooms on a regularly scheduled basis, confer regularly with a mentor teacher, serve as a co-advisor with an experienced advisor, coach (likely as an assistant) RE sports teams for two seasons, and support RE community activities and programs.
Benefits
Each RE Fellow will receive a full-time salary, shared housing on campus for the duration of the Fellowship, and all benefits now accorded full-time faculty members at Ransom Everglades, including breakfast and lunch on campus when classes are in session, participation in our retirement program, and our insurance package that includes health and dental insurance.
To apply for the Ransom Everglades School Teaching Fellowship, please send a resume, cover letter specifying discipline(s) qualified to teach and why you are attracted to independent school teaching, a completed employment application, and an unofficial college transcript to:
Dr. John King, Associate Head of School
Ransom Everglades School
3575 Main Highway
Coconut Grove, FL 33133
careers@ransomeverglades.org
(305) 460-8800