Lead Instructor, Software Engineering

| Greater Denver Area
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The Flatiron School is seeking a Software Engineering Lead Instructor to join our growing team!

What We Look for in Teachers:

The goal of any instructor is to drive outcomes. As the lead of a course, the buck stops with you, but we are looking for people that LOVE TEACHING. We make it a mission to seek out teachers who can infect, infuse and inspire with passion, wisdom, positivity, and humor. They show students how to love what they do, and how to better love who they are.

The Lead Web Development Instructor will:

​Make No Little Plans

  • Build for scale by planning, writing, and delivering lectures in accordance with the progress and pace of the class.
  • Pilot our experimental efforts in curriculum and pedagogical style pursuing our collective unending quest to provide the best experience and most positive outcomes.
  • Develop and lead student project sprints throughout the semester.

Radiate Positivity

  • Create a safe and collaborative environment where students understand that helping their peers betters their own experience.
  • Find what to love. Leverage passion as a force for motivation by sharing what you are passionate about with your students and working those topics into lesson plans as appropriate.

Be Scrappy

  • Embrace change and thrive in ambiguity by helping students and staff with real time efforts, like debugging a student’s project or assignment, while devoting time and effort to developing the macro learning plan.
  • Move quickly by prepare your own lectures but anticipating last minutes changes based on the class' progress and learning goals.

Pursue Mastery

  • Use feedback from students gathered via class surveys to greatly exceed the minimum bar.
  • Integrate feedback from team members on progress of class to set pacing and determine tactical interventions.

Work Together

  • Provide feedback to team members by conducting weekly 1 on 1s and overcommunciating on a daily basis.
  • Empower others to succeed by conducting interviews for instructors and students for future cohorts.

Qualifications for Lead Web Development Instructor:

  • A lead instructor must qualify for BOTH of the following requirements:
  • Web instructors must demonstrate intimate knowledge of a dynamically typed language such as Python, Ruby or JavaScript as used in a production environment.Prior experience teaching code to a class of students

 

 

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2420 17th St 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80202, Denver, CO 80202

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