About this opportunity
The Mount Vernon School lists this Upper School Maker, Design, & Engineering Instructor opportunity in atlanta, Georgia. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Maker, Design, Engineering Teacher
Established in 1972, Mount Vernon School serves over 1,250 students in Preschool through Grade 12 on our 40-acre Atlanta campus. Grounded in Christian values, Mount Vernon prepares all students to be college-ready, globally competitive, and engaged citizen leaders. Mount Vernon School anchors the Mount Vernon Organization as a destination of inquiry, innovation, and impact. Through MVSO, the online division of our Upper School, and MV Ventures, our research and educational consultancy, our organization is living its mission to design a better world by providing unique and differentiated value for all community members now and into the future.
The Role
This position has the opportunity to develop and deliver a wide variety of maker courses to students in Grades 9-12. This role is important because Mount Vernon believes each student needs a foundation in Maker, Design, and Engineering approaches, and these skills are critical to student success in other academic courses as they design and prototype for projects outside of maker-specific courses. Strong candidates will have experience teaching Maker, Design, and/or Engineering courses, be a practitioner of Design Thinking, Inquiry-Based Learning, and Competency-Based Education, and be an active participant in the maker education community.
What Strong Candidates Look Like
Ideal candidates will be passionate lifelong makers, curious learners, and student champions. You might fabricate furniture on weekends, iterate prints until the tolerance is right, solder your own boards, write code that runs something in your house, or have spent years in a shop, studio, or engineering firm before you found your way to a classroom. A job, a side business, or a weekend obsession - all the same to us. What matters is that you are a practitioner who walks the walk and can inspire students to do the same.
Responsibilities
Facilitating hands-on, project-based learning experiences with several groups of 12 to 20 students and supporting students at seasonal after-school events
Connecting project-based learning experiences to real world community impact
Designing, iterating, and delivering unit development and alignment across a variety of maker courses in collaboration with the MADE, Inquiry, Impact, and Innovation Diploma teams.
Collaborating with Lower School and Middle School Maker teachers to build cohesive and vertically aligned curriculum and learning experiences.
Maintaining comprehensive records of performance, progress, and goals using Mount Vernon tools
Communicating with families, learning coaches, and outside providers
Operating as a test kitchen for our newest, boldest ideas for doing school differently
Maintaining the Upper School Maker Spaces, equipment, and inventory
Partnering with Upper School teachers to help integrate MDE and fabricate/showcase student work
Curating two moments a year for students to exhibit their work
Actively participating in professional growth opportunities, including weekly school/division/team meetings
Core Competencies
Knowledge of maker, design, and engineering content, technological tools, and platforms
Culturally proficient & equity literate
Experience engaging students in learning to promote learner agency and ownership and using questioning/discussion techniques
A track record of giving high-quality, responsive feedback
Understanding of competency-based assessment/mastery approach to learning
Knowledge of inquiry-based learning pedagogies and design thinking
Use technology in service of learning (experience with coding, 3D modeling, robotics, circuitry and programming, digital media, engineering, design, and fabrication)
Maintaining purposeful environments that support student agency
Requirements
Bachelor's degree in Education, Engineering, or a related field (Masters degree preferred)
3+ years of classroom or related industry experience
Evidence of your own making and building practice: a portfolio, project photos, a GitHub, a shop, a side business, a garage full of things you've fixed. Professional and personal work count the same to us.
Teaching certification (preferred)
Start Date | October 2026
The faculty and staff of The Mount Vernon School believe the fair and equitable treatment of employees is critical to fulfilling its mission and purpose. It is the policy of The Mount Vernon School to conduct business and provide equal employment opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, age, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
Worksite address
atlanta, GA, 30383, US
Who can apply
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