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Safer Foundation
Location: Chicago, IL 60608 Document ID: AA302-3SLR Posted on: 2016-07-2607/26/2016 Job Type: RegularJob Schedule:Full-time
Minimum Education: Not Specified2016-08-25
Basic Skills/Instructional Facilitator
Title: Basic Skills/ Instructional Facilitator
Division: Educational Services
Location: PACE Institute - Cook County Jail,
26th & 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
The Safer Foundation supports, through a full spectrum of services,
the efforts of people with criminal records to become employed, law-abiding members
of the community and as a result, reduce recidivism.
All positions are Full-Time (40-hours/week) and located in the Chicago Metropolitan area
unless otherwise specified.
Safer Foundation is a drug-free workplace.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action/Minorities/Females/Veterans
www.saferfoundation.org
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