Title:    Basic Skills/Instructional Facilitator

Program:         Educational Services

Location:         PACE Institute - Cook County Jail
                       26^th & California Streets, Chicago (60608)

 

 

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General Summary:

The Basic Skills/Instructional Facilitator position provides a unique opportunity to employ academic training and peer- teaching to our clients in an unstructured and non-traditional environment.  This training is holistic in its integration of the practical aspects of academic tasks with interpersonal skills relevant to the work place.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Stimulates scholastic improvement in Safer’s client population
• Guides class participants in their efforts to achieve basic competence in mathematics, reading and writing
• Subscribes to and utilizes the peer and group learning techniques inherent in Safer`s Basic Skills Methodology
• Addresses conflict management, attention span, impulse control, habit formation and other barriers to learning through a vigorous, interactive method of instruction

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Knowledge of and successful experience teaching the requirements of the High School Equivalency (HSE) curriculum
• Ability to, and successful experience, in developing lesson plans
• Ability to teach in a non-traditional setting
• Exceptional verbal and computational skills
• Ability to maintain composure under stress and to employ insight and creativity in interpersonal communication
• Ability to work in stressful situations, in a fast-paced environment that experiences frequent short-term changes

• Ability to work within the confines of a secured facility

 

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field
• 2 years’ successful experience teaching basic skills & HSE curriculum to adults
• Prior experience working with individuals with criminal records, a plus