2025 Job Description for Workshop Facilitator
Continuing Professional Studies, Bank Street College of Education

Job Description:
Bilingual (Mandarin-English) educator with an early childhood background needed to collaborate on the design and implementation of workshops for 10-20 family childcare and informal childcare staff in Brooklyn, NY. Workshops are expected to be held onsite, online sessions are possible through Zoom. Workshops will be facilitated in Mandarin.
These workshops will build on the strengths of the caretakers with a goal of empowering and engaging this community in the importance of their role in caring for young children and supporting curriculum development utilizing a play-based approach. Topics include, but are not limited to:
1) Child development and developmental variations
2) Supporting executive function and self-regulation
3) Foundations of special education
4) Understanding cognitive development in early childhood
5) Inclusive and culturally responsive practice
6) Building community with families to enhance children's social and emotional development.

Start Date: various days Spring 2025
We expect to schedule 5-10 workshops during the spring and early summer of 2025. Workshops will be 2 to 2.5 hours long. The schedule is flexible and workshops will be held at mutually scheduled times. Historically, workshops have been held weekday evenings and/or Saturday mornings.

Compensation
- $300-$400 per each workshop
- Compensation includes periodic planning meetings, program development, implementation, and periodic meetings to debrief.

Qualifications
Required:
- Proficiency in English and Mandarin. Workshops will be held in Mandarin
- Successful teaching or social work experience in early childhood settings
- Experience in facilitating group discussions and/or professional development

Preferred:
- Leadership experience in early childhood
- Master(s) degree in education, Social Work or related field
- Experience working with classroom teachers and/or families
- Experience in a progressive education setting
Please apply and submit resume online on this listing.

About Bank Street College of Education

The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the educational process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

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