[SEMCO] Summer Teaching Opportunity at Waquoit Bay Reserve

[Tompkins, Laurie (DCR)]

Summer Employment Opportunity at the Waquoit Bay Reserve

Love to teach science, use your creativity, or get your hands dirty, and your feet wet? Come teach at the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve this summer. We offer a beautiful outside setting on Waquoit Bay, great people to work with and excellent pay!

The Waquoit Bay Reserve Foundation, in partnership with the Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve is seeking an energetic teacher to co-teach weekly sessions related to estuary ecology this summer. Children in in grades 2 - 12 attend a one-week session from July through mid-August at the Waquoit Bay Reserve.

Science School session descriptions can be found at:
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Duties include:
*             Attend four paid training/orientation sessions at the Waquoit Bay Reserve to work with Reserve Education staff to plan, design and organize summer school programs.
*             Provide planning and teaching for week-long educational experiences for children in grades 2 through 12 that encourage curiosity in science and the natural world.
*             Conduct engaging, hands-on lessons and activities in the classroom, woodlands, salt marshes and shoreline within the Waquoit Bay Reserve.
*             Teach and demonstrate principals of sustainability and stewardship in all programs.
*             Participate in a wrap-up meeting at the end of the season.
*             Schedule: Monday through Friday, July 8-August 16, 8:15AM to 3:30PM plus training.


Preferred Qualifications:
*             Experience working with children.
*             Outdoor education and/or field experience.
*             Current CPR/ First Aid certification required prior to start date.
*             Must be knowledgeable about coastal ecology and comfortable working in the field and handling live marine invertebrates.
*             Degree in a related field is a plus.

Salary: $30-34/hour including training and end of season wrap-up. This is a seasonal contract position that does not provide benefits. The contract term for the teacher begins at the end of June and continues through mid-August.


Applications submitted by April 10, 2024, will be given first preference, however position will remain open until filled.

To apply please send resume, cover letter and three references to:
Waquoitbayscienceschool at gmail.com<mailto:Waquoitbayscienceschool at gmail.com>.



Laurie Tompkins
Event & Volunteer Coordinator
Waquoit Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve
P.O. Box 3092
Waquoit, MA 02536
Direct 774-255-4268

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