Teaching Positions
and Internships... 
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Interested
in Teaching at the Free School? Questions about teaching at the Freeschool? e-mail teach@albanyfreeschool.com
OPENINGS
FOR RESIDENTIAL INTERNSHIP PROGRAM To apply, contact Bhawin Suchak & Mara Afzali at internships@albanyfreeschool.com or at (518) 434-3072. Don't forget to check out Harriet Tubman Free School at www.tubmanfreeschool.org for additional internship opportunities. Full Description of Internship Program
SchoolInterns will teach full-time in the school with the ongoing support and guidance of a mentor, who is a member of the paid staff. Interns will not be locked into any specific role, but will be free to work with kids of various ages and to inspire students in the intern's areas of particular passion. Codirectors Missy Marceau and Chris Mercogliano will meet weekly with interns to talk over how things are going in school, answer questions, address concerns, etc. Interns will also participate in a weekly seminar where they can share insights and ideas, as well as discuss books they are reading together.
CommunityInterns will participate in the Free School community's monthly talking stick circle -- our forum for community issues and safe space for resolving conflicts and receiving personal support. We've been doing this for over twenty-five years and it is the glue that holds us together. Interns will also be invited to join in on such community satellite projects as our nationally distributed magazine the Journal For Living, our natural foods coop, our inner-city organic farm, our wilderness, farm and ropes course project in Grafton, NY, and various neighborhood political and environmental issues.
Personal Growth
The Edwards grant has enabled us to set aside the school's largest living space (four bedrooms) for permanent intern housing, and thus to offer room and partial board to interns for the first time. Four interns will share a wonderfully sunny, 2nd floor apartment located at the center of the school community. The apartment comes complete with a high-speed Hewlett Packard PC and cable modem internet access, and has the school's farm with chickens and several gardens in the half-acre backyard.
The
Albany Free School
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Thanks in part to a generous grant from the Edwards Foundation,
the Albany Free School is initiating a comprehensive, yearlong residential
internship program that will include valuable learning experiences
both in and outside of the school. The program has three main components,
involving school, community, and personal growth:
One of the first "laws" of teaching is that teachers can only take
their students as far as they have taken themselves. Because here
at the Free School we pay a great deal of attention to children's
emotional selves, it is imperative that teachers and interns attend
to their own emotional growth as well. To this end, the internship
program will include opportunities for interns to expand their awareness
of self and others.
