{"id":15179,"date":"2014-02-25T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/?p=15179"},"modified":"2014-02-25T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2014-02-25T19:54:56","slug":"job-teaching-designing-after-school-workshops-beam-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/2014\/02\/25\/job-teaching-designing-after-school-workshops-beam-center\/","title":{"rendered":"[JOB \/ TEACHING] Designing After-School Workshops, Beam Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>WHAT<\/div>\n<div>Beam Center is seeking teaching artists to design and lead after-school workshops in technology, imagination, and craft for kids in grades 2-6. Workshop leaders at Beam Center design their own curriculum and teach from their own practice and interests. Most of our workshops are project-based.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>WHO<\/div>\n<div>Beam Center faculty are passionate about making and doing, ambitious, curious, and eager to share. We look for specialists and generalists. Technicians and big-picture people. Architects, engineers, sculptors, ceramicists, carpenters, printmakers, coders, circuit benders, story tellers, naturalists, and scientists. We welcome applications from those who have a lot of experience teaching and those who may be newer to it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re looking for making projects with a strong narrative and connection to the world at large. We are especially interested in teaching artists with unique or far-out approaches to\u00a0<b>sewing<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0<b>coding<\/b>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>LOGISTICS<\/div>\n<div>We\u2019re hiring after-school workshop leaders for spring, and possibly beyond. Spring workshops run\u00a0April 28 through June 19. Workshops run on the same day of the week for 8 weeks Each session is 1.5 hours,\u00a04-5:30, and we ask teachers to be at Beam Center 3-6 on days that they are teaching. Workshops run\u00a0Monday-Thursday. Total teaching time is 12 hours. Pay is $125 per workshop session, so $1000 for 8 week workshops.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Beam Center is located at 47 Bergen St, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn. For examples of the kind of workshops we run, see:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/beamcenter.org\/workshops\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/beamcenter.org\/<wbr \/>workshops<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WHAT Beam Center is seeking teaching artists to design and lead after-school workshops in technology, imagination, and craft for kids in grades 2-6. Workshop leaders&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job","category-teaching","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itp.nyu.edu\/opportunities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}