Nova Pioneer is looking for a superstar Learning Designer for our Primary School. As a Learning Design Associate, you will revolutionize the way 21st-century skills and knowledge are developed in African schools. You will be a central member of the team that will develop the learning model that we will use in our schools in Kenya and South Africa. This is an opportunity to be a part of an innovative network of schools that is developing generations of innovators and leaders who shape the African Century.
About Nova Pioneer
Imagine a world in which every young person across Africa attends a school that truly sets them up for success in the 21st century. A school that cares about individual students and allows them to explore the world around them. A school that focuses more on developing skills than on memorizing content. At Nova Pioneer, we have done more than just imagine this future, we are bringing it to life. Nova Pioneer is a pan-African, independent network of schools offering high quality, accessible education from pre-primary through secondary school. Nova Pioneer uses a unique, inquiry-based learning approach that encourages students to ask “why” instead of telling them the “what”. It allows them to form their own thinking through exploration, investigation, and collaboration. Learn more about our learning approach here. Nova Pioneer currently has 6 schools in South Africa and Kenya with a vision to launch 100 schools and reach tens of thousands of students across the African continent in the next decade. To learn more visit www.novapioneer.com.
Responsibilities
Key responsibilities for the role include:
- Use themes, big ideas, Cambridge Curriculum, and Kenyan National Curriculum to create the day by day overview of lessons.
- Create year-long Scope & Sequences for your subject areas and grade levels
- Create detailed, inquiry-based lesson plans using Reggio Emilia approach, blended learning, and small-group instruction
- Create materials that go along with each lesson
- Create a full unit’s worth of material that culminates in Project Based Learning
- Work with the Team Lead and classroom teachers to revise lessons after they have been taught.
- Work with learning designers in Humanities and Math/Science to create integrated projects and investigations
- Create strong assessments/rubrics/continuums/checklists that allow each teacher to evaluate students
- Create assessments that infuse multiple assessment methods (Common Core, Creative Curriculum, Cambridge, etc.) into the questions (upper primary).
- Receive professional development on the Nova Model of Learning Design, integrated curriculum design, STEAM, Project-Based Learning
- Additional responsibilities as assigned by your manager
- Respond adequately to emergencies or urgent issues as they arise.
Skills and Qualifications
- You have 3-4 years of experience in a rigorous, high-expectations early primary setting
- You have a track record of developing creative and rigorous curriculum that has led to distinctive learning outcomes and can demonstrate this through example products and references
- You have a desire to further develop your curriculum development skills and apply them to transform the lives of African youth
- You have strong writing skills and are able to use those to create lessons that will help people learn it while being engaged and interested
- You are driven by data and can use data from student assessments to strengthen lessons and spiral in key skills
- You are excited about our organizational culture—and in particular, you are fired up to challenge yourself by embracing mutual vulnerability and a firehose of feedback.
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