Summer Programs Teaching Intern

POSITION PURPOSE: The Choate Rosemary Hall Teaching Internship Program offers current college students and recent college graduates a rewarding opportunity to work in an intellectually stimulating and supportive academic community.

Interns have ample opportunity to teach, coach, develop lesson plans, and evaluate student performance, and in turn receive feedback on their teaching from mentor teachers, department heads, and the Coordinator of the Teaching Intern Program.

Teaching Interns participate in weekly professional development sessions.

The internship program is particularly beneficial to applicants who are interested in teaching in a residential college-preparatory or middle school institution.

Approximately 20-24 teaching intern positions are offered each summer in the Visual and Performing Arts, English, HPRSS (History, Philosophy, Religion, Social Science), Languages, Mathematics, Computer Science Science (Biology, Chemistry, Engineering, Neuroscience, Physics), as well as in our Signature Programs and Workshops.

Compensation & Benefits: $4,000 stipend, plus room and board and professional development opportunities.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Work with one or two mentor teachers Help prepare activities, assignments, quizzes, projects, and other aspects of each assigned course Teach a minimum of two full periods in each assigned course Provide classroom coverage in assigned or similar courses as applicable and needed Observe a minimum of 8 classes (other than ones own) during the program Coach/facilitate afternoon athletics and activities for middle school and high school students Chaperone Student Activity trips off campus Serve one night of library duty during study hours Support SAC Directors and Coordinator of Afternoon Athletics & Activities with development, implementation, and chaperoning of Wednesday Community Building activities Live in a student dormitory and share advising and supervisory responsibilities with other interns, residential advisers, and heads of house Serve as the adviser for a group of students Proofread Teacher Reports written for each advisee Write an adviser report for each advisee Attend weekly Professional Development workshops for Teaching Interns Write and submit Self-Reflection and Program Evaluation before departing campus at the end of the program