Discovery Education
Curriculum Designer
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Contractor
💰 $60 per Hour
💻 Instructional Design
🗓️ January 28th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
Highlights
- Design engaging and pedagogically sound lessons and experiences.
- Collaborate with Product Management, UX/UI designers, and developers.
- Attend scrum meetings to align development with curricular needs.
- Align and map state/regional standards to curriculum.
- Bachelor’s degree in Education required, Master’s degree a plus.
- Minimum 5 years of math teaching experience in grades 3-5 preferred.
- Experience with educational technology design preferred.
- Role includes up to four classroom visits per year.
- Compensation up to $60.00 per hour, max 150 hours/month.
- Remote, 1-year contract, 30-35 hours/week.
Curriculum Designer Full Description
In This Role You Will:
• From initial brainstorming through refinements and improvements, design engaging, pedagogically sound student-driven lessons and experiences using innovative manipulatives, games, scaffolding, and learning pathways
• Create lessons, curriculum, and experiences that align with DreamBox learning design principles and demonstrably improve student understanding, achievement, engagement, and confidence in math
• Partner with Product Management to write requirements for UX/UI designers and developers
• Attend scrum team meetings to ensure development meets curricular requirements
• Review competitor products and industry trends to identify opportunities for differentiation
• Align and map state/regional standards and print resources to help teachers easily find concepts in the DreamBox curriculum and enable differentiation for students
• Provide competent, expert learning insights for Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Client Success, and Professional Development
Core Competencies for Success:
• Digital learning design
• Understanding of how to drive motivation and engagement with students in grades three through five
• Strong presentation and facilitation skills
• Experience using educational technology according to effective and research-based principles of learning
• Able to proactively assess, clarify and validate student / customer needs on an ongoing basis
• Strong communication skills to communicate effectively with internal teams, third-party partners and customers
Credentials and Experience:
• Bachelor’s in Education required, Master’s degree a plus
• Minimum of 5 years of full-time, successful math teaching experience in a 3rd – 5th grade classroom
• National Board Certification preferred
• Some experience with digital learning design preferred
• Role may include up to 4 classroom visits per year
• Legal right to work in the United States
This role is designed to be remote. This contract will be for 1 year (12 months) and 30-35 hours/week (max. 150 hours/month).
Discovery Education is an equal opportunity employer. Discovery Education is committed to being an employer of choice, not just a good place to work, but a great and inclusive place to work. To that end, we strive to recruit and maintain a workforce that meaningfully represents the diverse and culturally rich communities that we serve. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran status or disabled status or, genetic information.
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