GED Instructor
Full Time • Oak Cliff, Dallas, Texas
For Oak Cliff is a culturally relevant non-profit organization based in Dallas, TX serving the South Oak Cliff community. For Oak Cliff's mission is to provide culturally responsive initiatives in South Oak Cliff to liberate the community from systemic oppression, create a culture of education, and increase social mobility and social capital. We aim to accomplish our mission by curating dual-gen, community-driven programming through our four pillars: Education, Advocacy, Community Building, and Arts.
What is Dual-Gen? Our 2-generation approach to each pillar and program. We find it more effective to evoke radical change by engaging everyone in the home, students and guardians. For example, under Education, we have LENA for our budding students (ages 0-3), after-school time programs (ages 6-12), and GED classes (ages 18+). Our Community Building pillar offers summer sports camps (ages 5- 12) and health talks and community mixers for our OG's (ages 55+).
Responsibilities:
- Engage in community events to recruit students to the class
- Host weekly intake sessions for new students
- Assess students' readiness to take exams
- Create lesson plans and modify accordingly throughout the year
- Maintain current grade books
- Utilize various curriculum resources that reflect the diverse educational, cultural, and linguistic backgrounds of the students served
- Develop incentives to keep participants in class
- Identify untapped professional relationships with other agencies and programs that can provide resources or incentives to GED students
- Establish and communicate clear objectives for all learning activities.
- Prepare, distribute and explain required reports
- Observe and evaluate student's performance
- Take attendance daily
- Manage student data to include: practice exams, completion exams, attendance files, etc…
- Plan a classroom curriculum that meets school standards
- Encourage the development of students’ critical thinking skills
- Grade assignments and provide feedback
- Document students’ learning progress
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher and state teaching certification
- Previous experience teaching at the k-12 level is preferred
- Understanding of child/adult development principles and best practices in education and classroom management
- Knowledge of classroom health, safety, and sanitation guidelines and ability to closely adhere to the guidelines
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Compensation: $25.00 per hour
HOW WE STARTED.
Conceived out of necessity, For Oak Cliff got it's start in 2014 by Taylor Toynes and his W.W. Bushman fourth grade class. Toynes began teaching at Bushman Elementary in his hometown neighborhood of South Oak Cliff through Teach for America. While in the classroom, he saw that a majority of his students did not have school supplies, an issue that Toynes realized stemmed from the community’s extreme poverty.
That summer of 2015, Toynes organized with students, community members, and local organizations to host the inaugural Back To School Festival, a vessel to equip the community and students with the necessary supplies, resources, and service providers to have a successful school year. Over the past seven years, the festival has grown tremendously, helping serve over 4,000 students and parents each summer!
Since its inception, the festival is an annual staple event for For Oak Cliff, but is only a portion of the liberating work provided to the Superblock. In 2016, For Oak Cliff leased an office building in the black-owned Glendale Shopping Center, offering the community free GED classes, after-school tutoring, computer lab/wi-fi access, weekly food distribution, and an event space for rentals.
Most recently, For Oak Cliff took an even bigger step toward its mission and purchased a 20,000 sq. ft. building sitting atop 10-acres of land! Formerly the Moorland YMCA, it is now called the For Oak Cliff Community Campus - a safe space to expand our pillar-driven programming. Comprised of a 13-person staff, For Oak Cliff works to identify the pressing needs of the Superblock and curate solutions-driven programming and resources.
That summer of 2015, Toynes organized with students, community members, and local organizations to host the inaugural Back To School Festival, a vessel to equip the community and students with the necessary supplies, resources, and service providers to have a successful school year. Over the past seven years, the festival has grown tremendously, helping serve over 4,000 students and parents each summer!
Since its inception, the festival is an annual staple event for For Oak Cliff, but is only a portion of the liberating work provided to the Superblock. In 2016, For Oak Cliff leased an office building in the black-owned Glendale Shopping Center, offering the community free GED classes, after-school tutoring, computer lab/wi-fi access, weekly food distribution, and an event space for rentals.
Most recently, For Oak Cliff took an even bigger step toward its mission and purchased a 20,000 sq. ft. building sitting atop 10-acres of land! Formerly the Moorland YMCA, it is now called the For Oak Cliff Community Campus - a safe space to expand our pillar-driven programming. Comprised of a 13-person staff, For Oak Cliff works to identify the pressing needs of the Superblock and curate solutions-driven programming and resources.
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