Curriculum Developer and Teacher Educator

International Society of the Learning Sciences; Evanston (IL); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Northwestern University’s Center for Connected Learning (CCL) and the NetLogo Center are seeking a full-time Curriculum Developer and Teacher Educator to advance science education through NetLogo-based curricula in middle and high schools.

The role involves creating educational materials, leading teacher workshops, and engaging with schools and teachers to promote innovative ABM-based learning across STEM topics.

Qualifications

• Experience creating educational materials and curricula.
• Ability to design and implement teacher workshops.
• Experience engaging with schools and teachers to promote STEM education.

Responsibilities

• Focus on improving and creating educational materials that use NetLogo and related products across STEM and social science subjects in middle and high schools.
• Create and run teacher education workshops around using NetLogo and accompanying curricula.
• Conduct outreach to schools and teachers to promote adoption and effectiveness of NetLogo-based curricula.

Skills

Curriculum development

Teacher education

Educational outreach

Job description

Northwestern’s Center for Connected Learning (CCL) and the NetLogo Center, both founded by Professor Uri Wilensky from the Northwestern Schools of Education and Engineering, are looking for a full-time Curriculum Developer and Teacher Educator. If you are passionate about science and the future of science education, this position is ideal for you! Professor Wilensky recently won the prestigious Yidan Prize, largely for his work on NetLogo, and you will be joining a small and dynamic team dedicated to building great tools and curricula for science and science education.

NetLogo is a free award‑winning agent‑based modeling (ABM) software used by educators and scientists around the world for modeling and understanding complex systems across the natural and social sciences. ABM is a way to explore systems by programming many individual “agents” (people, cells, firms, animals, etc.) to follow simple rules. As agents interact, larger patterns—like traffic jams, epidemics, or market cycles—emerge.

NetLogo is the most widely used software for ABM across research and education and has been used to help students learn about topics ranging from chemical reactions to economic systems, anything in which many individual parts interact to produce a larger pattern.

Responsibilities

This position will focus on (1) improving and creating educational materials that use NetLogo (and related products) across STEM and social science subjects in middle and high schools, (2) creating and running teacher education workshops around using NetLogo and accompanying curricula, and (3) doing outreach to schools and teachers.