English Language Arts AI Activity Designer
(Remote, Full time)
Join Coursemojo, an innovative ed-tech company, as we strive to redefine the educational journey for students. We're on the hunt for a dedicated English Language Arts AI Activity Designer, focused on creating & scaling captivating learning experiences for upper elementary & middle school students.
In the role of English Language Arts AI Activity Designer, your primary objective will be to help create, standardize, and scale (leveraging contractors & existing technical processes) a set of ELA activities and activity templates that support upper elementary and middle school teachers in addressing the unique reading needs of their students within the context of the district's chosen curriculum. This person will report to the Executive Director and VP of Product who oversees Coursemojo’s Content Team
Why is this role significant?
The chosen candidate will be instrumental in helping us standardize and scale our ELA AI activity design production, particularly for grades 4-8, ensuring that each AI-driven activity is curriculum aligned, pedagogical sound, and engaging. These activities will center around promoting productive struggle with texts by moving students from the literal to making deeper meaning, leveraging close reading discussions as a foundation for writing, and enabling students to polish their writing from initial drafts to impressive final pieces.
We leverage artificial intelligence to shape and scale the production of these experiences meaning that our designers should be tech-savvy, and eager to learn how to incorporate new technologies into their processes, but by no means requires AI prompt engineering experience or advanced technological skill.
The English Language Arts AI Activity Designer will be an integral member of our Content Team.
What will your role encompass?
Reading and Writing Curriculum Design
- Design interactive activities that focus on supporting reading and writing with a focus on text dependent questions, vocabulary development, and writing support.
- Develop assessments that align with the activities, ensuring standards consistency. Create formative and summative assessments to measure student comprehension, mastery, that our AI-powered application will use to score and generate feedback for students.
- Possess strong writing skills, with the ability to craft strong lessons, teacher guides, and curriculum explanations.
Team Collaboration & Feedback Integration
- Work synergistically with the transformation, software engineering, and product development teams to optimize activity design and design processes.
- Efficiently manage and integrate feedback from various stakeholders, including subject matter experts and members of the product team, while meeting project deadlines.
- Use feedback from educators and students to enhance activity quality and engagement.
- Awareness of the ethical implications related to AI, including data privacy, bias in algorithms, and the impact of automation on learning.
Tech Proficiency & Ongoing Professional Growth
- Current with the latest pedagogical trends, research, and best practices in English language arts instruction and technology in education and experience integrating them into curriculum materials as appropriate.
- Openness to incorporating modern technology, specifically generative AI, into your work processes and leverage them to achieve strong learning outcomes for teachers and their students.
- Continuous learner with the drive to stay updated with the evolving landscape of consumer-facing AI tools and their applications in education.
Project Management
- Co-create and maintain a clear process for AI Activity creation, review, revision, and finalization.
- Support the hiring and management of a team of sub-contractors (i.e. fellow educators) who will assist you in scaling the production of curriculum-aligned activities, requiring you to work as an editor, managing quality and ensuring consistency of the activities they create.
- Uphold firm project timelines and relay any hurdles to the team leader.
- Impeccable organization and knowledge management skills. Manage activity archives in alignment with Coursemojo’s standards. Maintain meticulous records of a project's progress, including drafts, feedback, revisions, and approvals and maintaining the organizational systems for both scale and cross-team transparency.
Who are we seeking?
Requirements
Education & Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in English, Education, or analogous disciplines
- Minimum 5 years of experience as a upper elementary and/or middle school ELA teacher, including experience teaching MLLs and/or students with IEPs
- Demonstrated ability to craft lesson plans that promote student-centric learning
Skills & Attributes:
- Strong writer
- A thirst for knowledge, adaptability, and humility
- High degree of both creativity and process orientation, as our work involves both inventing and pioneering novel approaches in education and scaling them
- Familiarity with popular middle school ELA HQIM curriculum and standards
- Familiarity with reading and writing frameworks as outlined by Student Achievement Partners and the Achieve the Core website.
- Strong multitasking and organizational prowess.
- Stellar communication skills.
- Openness and desire to give and receive ongoing to feedback to ensure continuous improvement of the activities
AI Proficiency:
- Ability to adapt to and learn new technologies and internalize processes rapidly, especially with the application of artificial intelligence
Preferred (But Not Mandatory):
- Background in curriculum design
- Expertise in supporting MLL and/or students with IEPs
Location:
This is a full-time, fully remote role, open for candidates across the United States.
Compensation:
At Coursemojo, we are committed to equitable, transparent, and rewarding compensation for our teammates. We base our salaries for every position on three factors: 1) benchmark data for similar roles, 2) a candidate’s level of experience, and 3) a candidate’s geographic location. The salary range for candidates is $82,800-$97,400 annually and will be determined based on the candidate’s local cost of labor (with Tier 1 labor markets like NYC & SFO at the high-end of that range).
Our Pledge to Diversity:
Studies have shown that people of color and women are less likely to apply for jobs unless they believe they check all the boxes listed in a job description. We encourage you to apply, even if you don't believe you meet every one of our qualifications described. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, and retaining a diverse team. We have designed a hiring process that surfaces candidates’ strengths, celebrates differences, and mitigates bias where we can so that we can hire the best and most diverse team possible.
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