Call for Teaching Artists: Growing Great Writers – Jul 15

Posted by Rutgers-Camden Writers House on June 14, 2022

Growing Great Writers, an after-school partnership program of the Rutgers-Camden Writers House, seeks six teaching artists to co-lead weekly creative writing club programs during the 2022-23 academic year. Programs will take place at one of three Camden partner sites.

Growing Great Writers is hiring! Growing Great Writers, a program of the Rutgers-Camden Writers House, partners with Camden schools and community centers to offer a creative writing club program that introduces students in grades 4-8 to new genres, forms, techniques, and ways of appreciating and celebrating language through adaptive curricula that emphasize discovery and play. Past and current partners have included the Salvation Army Kroc Center, Catholic Schools Partnerships, The Neighborhood Center, and Camden IGNITE.

The role

We are seeking six part-time teaching artists for the 2022-23 academic year to deliver once-weekly club programming at partner sites. Each artist will develop curriculum and lead sessions with a teaching partner, with the support of partner site staff. The exact schedule is slightly partner-dependent, but will begin in late August with a two day training; residencies at after-school programs will begin in September or October. All teaching artists are required to attend regular check-in meetings with the program director and a mid-term retreat. Teaching artists will be responsible for developing a curriculum outline, an end-of-year celebration of student work (usually a print anthology or performance), and delivering 24 sessions of club programming together with a co-teacher. The program director will match teaching artists pairs and site partners after hiring is complete.

Learn more and apply.

Apply by July 15, 2022.