Primary Literacy Learning Design, Associate at Nova Pioneer

ABOUT THE ROLE

Your typical week at Nova will look like this:

• Use themes, big ideas, and Kenyan Competency Based Curriculum to create the day-by-day overview of literacy lessons, including Read Aloud lessons, Centres rotations, Guided Reading lessons, Writer’s Workshop lessons, and Literature Circles lessons in Grades PP2 - 6, beginning with Upper Primary.
• Create year-long Schemes of Work for your subject areas and grade levels
• Create detailed, inquiry-based lesson plans using the 5-E model, blended learning, and small-group instruction
• Create materials that go along with each lesson 
• Create a full unit’s worth of material that culminates in Project-Based Learning
• Work with your manager and classroom teachers to revise lessons after they have been taught.
• Work with learning designers in other subjects to create integrated projects and investigations
• Create strong assessments/rubrics/continuums/checklists that allow each teacher to evaluate students 
• Create assessments that infuse multiple assessment methods, including CBC KNEC approaches, Cambridge, and more.
• Receive  professional development on the Nova Model of Learning Design, integrated curriculum design, STEAM, and Project-Based Learning
• Additional responsibilities as assigned by your manager

ABOUT YOU

Skills and Qualifications required:

• You have 2+ years of experience in a rigorous, high-expectations primary setting (CBC classroom experience and training preferred)
• You have distinctive experience and interest in English and Literacy, particularly in the lower primary years.
• Experience with a balanced literacy model is a plus.
• You have a track record of developing creative and rigorous curriculum that has led to distinctive learning outcomes and can demonstrate this through example products and references
• You have a desire to further develop your curriculum development skills and apply them to transform the lives of African youth
• You have strong writing skills and are able to use those to create lessons that will help students learn while being engaged and interested
• You are driven by data and can use data from student assessments to strengthen lessons and spiral in key skills