SEP Employment Opportunities

Reflection - Learning - Innovation - Leadership - Excellence

THE WHAT

At SEP, our converging goal is to utilize curriculum and instruction as a medium for fostering a lifelong passion for learning and leadership in our young scholars. We recognize that teaching is largely a system of thinking that requires knowing your learners; knowing your content and how to structure content in forms that make it accessible to diverse learners; knowing how to elicit and assess student thinking in myriad ways; and knowing how to create a classroom culture that fosters learning.

To that end, we are committed to supporting teacher learning development towards expertise. Each year, we hire a dynamic staff of content experts from representative departments across Grounds at UVa and masters teachers that are dedicated to working with gifted learners and excelling in their own teaching practices. All teachers participate in professional development focused on how students learn in relationship to curriculum and instructional design. Our key areas of inquiry include:

  • Backwards lesson design with an emphasis on developing solid learning goals
  • Developing meaningful learning tasks: discussion structures, model-based reasoning, situational tasks, guided inquiry
  • Assessing and understanding the importance of students' prior knowledge, interests, and goals in learning
  • Eliciting student thinking: Bringing student thinking to the forefront of instruction & classroom discourse
  • Formative assessment: Tapping into your learners' experiences and knowledge and using that to guide/modify instruction.
  • Differentiating instruction to better meet the needs of your learners: How do you balance whole class learning needs with individual learning needs?
  • Developing solid classroom structures & routines: From reactive to proactive management, From managing student behavior to managing student ideas.
  • Teacher identity: Who are you as a teaching professional? How do you fit into a bigger academic culture?

THE HOW

  • In the SEP teaching experience, on-going feedback and opportunities for analysis, reflection, and modification of ideas are designed to move teachers forward in navigating the complexities of the classroom. We recognize that a “one-size-fits-all” professional development approach is largely ineffective. To that end, teachers work in multiple instructional arrangements (whole group to small groups to individual work with our academic coordinator) to develop a meaningful and appropriate curriculum for this population of students.
  • In the Summer program, teachers will have an opportunity to be a part of a professional learning community and explore pedagogical ideas in more depth and complexity.

Current Openings

SATURDAY ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (rising K-5th Grade)

This program is currently in progress (1/21/12 - 2/25/12.) Please check back next fall for applications for Teachers and Teaching Assistants for this program in 2013.

SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM (Middle and High School)

We are currently hiring afternoon seminar teachers for the following grade levels: 5th/6th grade, 7th/8th grade, and 9th-11th grade. Program information and job descriptions can be found in the application. The application is due by February 17th, 2012.

2012 Summer Seminar Teacher Position

SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAM RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS

We are currently hiring residential counselors for the 2012 summer program! Applications are due January 24, 2012. Late applications cannot be considered.

2012 Summer Enrichment Program Residential Counselor