My Dear Students Interested in Teaching,

I have a lot of announcements for you, the most time sensitive are at the top.

This Friday 1/13, 3:00-4:30 in Twilight Auditorium, Alice Leeds, 5th/6th grade teacher at Lincoln Community School, Lincoln, Vermont, will give a talk about the use of digital stories with elementary students.  She will explain how she inspires her students to construct digital stories and she will showcase examples of their work.  Everyone is invited to this event as part of Gregg Humphrey’s Winter Term course, EDST0317 Children and the Arts.

The Twilight Hall After School Program runs workshops, similar to those of J-Term, but geared for elementary-aged/middle school children and meeting twice a week from 3:30-5:30 for 6 weeks (3/5-4/20 with break off).  Alana Jenkins is looking for everyone and everyone with a talent that they’d love to share with enthusiastic youth.  We are particularly looking for applicants whose workshop bridges the gap between learn and play, along with experiences from their own cultural backgrounds. -Check out our media coverage in The Campus!   Please apply using this link before January 28, 2012

American Councils for International Education is currently accepting applications for the 2012 Intensive Summer Language Institutes Program taking place next summer in Alexandria, Egypt and Changchun, China.  The March 2nd application deadline is fast approaching!  This program provides fully funded fellowships for U.S. classroom teachers to spend six weeks overseas studying intermediate and advanced-level Arabic and Chinese, and hence is only for non-native speakers of the target languages.  The Intensive Summer Language Institutes are funded by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs at the U.S. Department of State http://exchanges.state.gov/ and implemented by American Councils for International Education http://www.americancouncils.org/.  The ISLI program is open to current K-12 teachers and community college instructors of Arabic and Mandarin Chinese, as well as to students enrolled in education programs who intend to teach these languages.

WALDORF INTERN OR OBSERVATION: Would you like to know more about Waldorf education? Holistic and imaginative, Waldorf education incorporates the "head, heart, and hands" into every lesson. Its early childhood program is based on the rhythms of the home and the seasons. Turtle Lane Nursery in Vergennes is an in-home Waldorf early childhood program for children ages 18 months to 4 years, run by a certified Waldorf teacher. If you love crafts, nature, music, young children and the magic they make, this might be of interest to you. Open to visits and observation from interested students, or an internship 1 or 2 mornings a week. Contact Abigail Diehl-Noble at adiehlnoble@lakechamplainwaldorfschool.org or at 877-6901.

My name is Arlo Furst, I work for The Cambridge School of Weston (Weston, MA) as the Coordinator for The Progressive Education Lab (PEL). PEL is a two-year teacher training program that we are launching with three other Progressive schools in the east coast; The Calhoun School (NYC), The Putney School (VT), and The Unquowa School (CT). Our program provides a unique, experience-based training not typically found at traditional university-based education programs and it is set to begin in the Fall of 2012.  http://www.progressiveeducationlab.org/

We are actively seeking qualified applicants for Associate Teacher positions at Beauvoir, the National Cathedral Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Please share the position description below with current students or recent graduates interested in working in a program that will clarify their career goals and refine their pedagogical skills in a dynamic teaching environment. Please encourage students to read the program description that we have uploaded on your career website and to visit the Associate Teacher page on the Beauvoir website http://www.beauvoirschool.org .

Happy 2012

Break Through Collaborative Information Session

Tonight! BiHall 104 from 8pm -9 pm

A national organization that works with low-income middle and high school students to help them get to college.  The program has sites all over the country and looks for college students to teach academic classes in their summer academy.   If you can’t make the session please contact Steven Dunmire at sdunmire@middlebury.edu for more information.

A Message from the DREAM Team:

The campus mentoring organization DREAM is in the process of expanding, but in order to support more kids in the Middlebury community we are recruiting student mentors. DREAM mentors meet Monday nights for planning and go as a group on Friday afternoons to work with local kids ages 4-17. DREAM is a well-established national organization and we would love to have more students on campus involved. Students can join us this semester or start in J-term or the spring to try it out. It's a really fun way to get off campus and serve the local community by working with kids. Feel free to email our co-chairs Jane Williams at janew@middlebury.edu or Ali Siegel at absiegel@middlebury.edu or check out http://www.dreamprogram.org/ for more information. We welcome all students to join us at anytime - we meet at ADK at 3:15pm Fridays and are back on campus around 5:30pm. So come try out DREAM and make a difference for a local child/teen!

Volunteer Abroad (this summer) in Latin America for Young People with Diabetes

AYUDA is a non-profit organization that empowers youth to serve as agents of change in diabetes communities around the world. Please be advised that applications are due February 1st, 2012. www.ayudainc.net

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC      June 17th- July 7th 2012

ECUADOR                          July 17th- August 7th 2012

After School Babysitter Once/Week

The hours are from 2pm - 5:30pm on any day of the week (we're flexible).  The person would drive to Bristol (in my car or theirs) to pick up my 10-year-old son and then hang out with him at the library, at the Grille, and playing around campus until I finish work at 5pm.  The pay is $9.78/hour.  My son loves make-believe games, music, dancing, reading, and Star Wars.  He's on the autism spectrum, but very mildly affected.

My contact information is Alexa Euler 802-338-1834 or aeuler@middlebury.edu

Alexander Twilight Afterschool Workshops

The pilot semester of our workshops was a big success and we are looking to expand the program for spring.  We would like to host two workshops, one meeting M/W and the other T/R each from 3:30-5:30.  The workshops will run from March 5^th through to April 20^th (with the week off for break).  If you’re interested please talk to your friends or club about submitting a proposal together for next semester, applications will be due by the end of January so I’ll send you more details later.

Also counting the days to break,

Please be sure that Career Services/MOJO knows you are interested in teaching as well.  They also send out notices about internships and opportunities and, while there is some overlap, it's best to get both.

EDST 0337, our winter term New York City Urban Internship, is filled for this year but we can accept a few names for the waitlist.

We have two paid positions to share with you this week:

The YMCA is hiring a part time Afterschool position at the Ferrisburgh School. This is a paid position with up to 24 (or so) hours available. The hours are from 3:00 to 6:00 Monday to Thursday and 11:00 to 6:00 on Fridays. The hours and number of days have some flexibility, pay is to be determined by the YMCA. The position is for an Afterschool Assistant. Please email for more information.
Please contact Shannon LaRose at newfivecents@gmail.com

We are looking for a student who would be interested in working with our daughter, Anna (age 15) twice a week with her chemistry studies. Ideally we're hoping to find a student who has a firm knowledge of chemistry and a passion for teaching basic and advanced chemistry concepts and equations. We would pay $20 a session and the work sessions could be either on or off campus. If interested, please contact Francisca Drexel at fdrexel@middlebury.edu . Thanks ~

Dear Students Interested in Teaching,

Our first order of business is to remind students that because October 15^th is a Saturday the new deadline for the Spring Professional Semester will be October 17^th.  Please visit our website for the application and details.  Also note that this is the last year the professional semester will be offered in the spring term.  (March 15^th will be the deadline for next fall’s semester.)

Exploration Summer Programs is a not-for-profit group who run a series of Academic Enrichment Summer Programs at Yale University, Wellesley College, and the St. Mark's school, for grades 4-12. This year they’re interested in recruiting some students from Middlebury College to fill positions as instructors, residential life staff, office staff, and more.  They will be holding an information session Wednesday October 5^th at  7:00 PM in Hillcrest Room 103 http://hiring.explo.org

A local parent is looking for a volunteer (someone who has taken EDST 0315?) to visit her child’s second grade classroom at Mary Hogan on one Friday afternoon and do some science demonstrations with them (all supplies provided).  Please contact Angela (angela.cobrin.landis@gmail.com) if you wouldn’t mind doing the Mr. Wizard thing.

An after school program at Ferrisburg School, run by the YMCA,  is currently looking for an assistant during the after kindergarten program on Friday afternoons. Specifically they need  someone who can work most Fridays from 11:00-3:00, with some opportunities for extra hours. The assistant would eat lunch with the kids, oversee art and outdoor activities and help assure each child transitioned to their appropriate after school care. It is a paid position, please contact Shannon at newfivecents@gmail.com (Students please note that Ferrisburg is about 15 miles and 20 minutes from campus.)

Bristol Elementary (~14 miles and 20 minutes) is looking for academic mentors and reading partners in their Study Studio on Mondays and Tuesdays after school.  Please contact Emma Lennon (elennon@middlebury.edu) in the Center for Education in Action if you are interested in helping out.

That’s all for this week.

• This is a gentle reminder that proposals for Afterschool Workshops are due this week.  Please see the attached and contact Alana Jenkins (ajenkins@middlebury.edu) with any questions.

• Although it is still technically summer, the Snow School is recruiting instructors for this winter please see the attached flyer or contact Susie Davis (spdavis@middlebury.edu) for details.  The position pays and can count as PE credit.

• A local parent is looking for someone to tutor her daughter in math, it's an opportunity to spend about an hour a week with a lovely 4th grader.  That same parent is also the leader of a Junior Girl Scout Troop, all 4th graders. She would love to have a Middlebury College student help out with the Troop. The troop meets on every other Tuesday, 6:00-7:15 @ St Stephens Church.  Volunteers could come to all the meetings or just a few to help the girls earn a specific badge.  Please email Donna if you are interested: shermanandzelda@gmail.com.

• Lastly, Hildgund Schaefer,Mentor-Liaison for the Middlebury College-Monkton Central School World Language Program will be at the MiddAction Fair on Wednesday.  Her program has been in existence for more than 10 years, with great success, to introduce children from kindergarten  to grade 6 to a foreign language and culture, an experience which hopefully will be continued in middle and high school.
  Each semester, they have had the good fortune to welcome volunteers from Middlebury College to share their knowledge of a foreign language and culture, please email Hildgund or find her at the fair if you are interested: pgrant@together.net

Dear Students Interested in Teaching,

First we would like to welcome all the students who signed up for our mailing list at the Academic Forum, if anyone has friends that would like to join our mailing list please have them send me an email.  We try to let students know about all sorts of teaching opportunities or events that might be interesting to those interested in teaching throughout the year.

Already this semester we have a professor looking for someone to tutor their child after school at the Ilsley Library:

We are looking for a student who would be interested in working with our 11-year-old daughter Anna once a week after school. Anna is in 5th grade at Bridge School and could use some help with reading and homework. Typically for homework there might be some math (very simple), reading, writing, and spelling. Ideally, the student would meet with Anna on Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 at the Ilsley Library, but we could try another arrangement if that schedule doesn't work for the tutor. We would pay $20 for each session. The student wouldn't necessarily need any specialized background, they would just need to be someone who is patient and enjoys working with kids. If interested, please contact Amy Briggs at briggs@middlebury.edu. Thank you!

The sixth grade teacher at St. Mary's School, right on Shannon Street across from the Catholic church, is looking for a volunteer to come in and help her with math instruction.  Math usually happens every day at 10 am, please contact Mrs. Eagan if you are interested in volunteering: michelleeagan@saintmarysvt.org

Lastly (and most exciting for the Education Studies Program), Alana Jenkins is accepting applications for the Twilight Hall After School Program.

Do you blur the lines of work and play?

Did you love making projects for the science fair?

Do you have a crazy/cool hobby that you love to share?

Do you find any way to take knowledge outside the classroom?

...And do you want the earning potential of a Level B Job?

APPLY to teach at Middlebury College with the

Twilight Hall After School Program

The Twilight Hall After School Program runs workshops, similar to those of J-Term, but geared for elementary-aged/middle school children and meeting twice a week from 3:30-5:30 for 6 weeks. We're looking for everyone and everyone with a talent that they'd love to share with enthusiastic youth.

We are particularly looking for applicants whose workshop bridges the gap between learn and play, along with experiences from their own cultural backgrounds.

Please apply using the attached document before September 19, 2011 at 5 PM

If you don't want to get messages this year please let me know and I will remove your name.  Also, this mailing will be archived on our website if you accidentally delete the name of that person who will give you $20 to hang out at Ilsley for an hour.