Exploration Summer Programs is seeking creative and experienced educators to serve as Pre-Season Curriculum Advisors (PCAs) during the winter and spring for one to six different summer enrichment courses. Over the course of a three-week development cycle, PCAs communicate with course instructors via phone and email to help them transform their ideas into creative lesson plans for a three-week enrichment course that will be taught during the summer.
 
Each summer, Exploration offers more than 150 unique courses and more than 90 unique mini-courses in a wide array of academic disciplines.  (See our website, www.explo.org, for a sample of the kinds of courses we offer.)  These enrichment courses are hands-on, not-for-credit, and ungraded. They are taught by summer instructors who are passionate about the fields in which they are teaching, but who are primarily undergraduate and graduate students with little or no teaching experience. The primary responsibility of the PCA is to mentor these young teachers in the development of student-centered, activity-based curriculum that will encourage our summer students to challenge themselves, discover the world of people and ideas, and experience the joy of learning. 

A brief online training for new PCAs takes place in December. Curriculum advising takes place between January and June. Most PCAs advise between one and six courses. Exploration coordinates an advising schedule with PCAs, such that the advising process for a single course or mini-course/workshop is completed in approximately three weeks (of your choosing). A full course usually takes between 15 hours to advise; a mini-course/workshop usually takes 7 hours to advise.

PCAs may elect to receive either monetary compensation or graduate credit (or a mixture of the two) for their work as PCAs. PCAs are compensated $200 per full-course and $100 per mini-course. PCAs that advise 3 full-courses (or the equivalent thereof), may elect instead to receive 4 graduate credits transferable to the graduate program of their choosing.  Exploration is a Professional Development Provider and, as such, can award recertification points for this work. 

Additional questions can be directed to Barb Trainor, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at btrainor@explo.org, or by calling (781)762-7400.

NOTE: Please do not send resumes, as we will only view applications that are submitted through our hiring website.