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Create Online High School and Middle School Courses for BYU

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BYU is looking for high school teachers or course authors who can help us write online middle school and high school courses for a domestic and worldwide audience. This is meaningful, important work that requires existing curriculum development skills. Course authors must be able to simplify educational content and make it relevant through writing, finding, or creating short instructional videos, graphic organizers, activities, and other tactics ensuring student engagement, all while adhering to content standards.

BYU's online students won’t always have a cohort of students and a teacher guiding them through their courses. Sometimes BYU students sign up and complete a course independently, with access to a teacher or TAs who can help them as needed. This means BYU content must be scaffolded well and easily digested by students of various scholastic levels and backgrounds.

Requirements
The basic role requirements include the following:

  • You have taught or authored a high school or middle school academic course (required).
  • You have taught the subject online or authored an online high school or middle school course (preferred).
  • You are able to keep a worldwide student in mind, including students of all academic levels and backgrounds.
  • You are culturally sensitive in the content you author, mindful of more than a US-centric audience.
  • You can write high school content at a fifth- to eighth-grade reading level.
  • You are skilled at making content relevant and purposeful through real-life examples.
  • You are skilled at writing with a “teacher voice,” so students feel supported and guided.
  • You are skilled at giving students choices in their assessments so they can choose how to demonstrate they have met the standards.
  • You are skilled at scaffolding content into cognitively manageable pieces so students are not overwhelmed, especially in an online setting.
  • If selected, you would be able to work as an independent contractor.

For more information or to apply, please visit the BYU Independent Study Online Authors page.