Learning Coach

Learning Coach hiring @StayQrious

at StayQrious NeoSchool

Founder: Aanand Srinivas

Ex - Khan Academy

Location: Work from home or anywhere in the world.

Employment type: Full time

CTC: 3.6 - 4 LPA

Work Week: 6 days (Mon - Sat), 9am-5pm

About StayQrious:

StayQrious is a YCombinator company re-engineering education to make it more relevant to the real-world. It was founded by Aanand Srinivas, former learning head of Khan Academy, in collaboration with Dr. Brian Johnsrud, founder of Stanford's learning science lab.

StayQrious Neoschool is a full-fledged virtual school built to replace conventional schools. It is a model built on the first principles of learning science and behavioural economics. Students work remotely with their peers and coach for 4 hours a day, and meet physically once every few months. Don't just stay curiousBut join StayQrious!

About the role:

At StayQrious, we're turning the traditional classroom upside down. Our curriculum is project-based, and all concepts are introduced through real-world projects, eg- students making a plan for Human survival on Mars and through this they learn about atoms and molecules.

This would require you to create exceptional lesson plans inline with PBL pedagogy.

Just kidding!! Lesson plans are centrally designed by our curriculum team, so you can focus on improving the student's experience.

So what do you do as a Coach

You are assigned a batch of 30 kids whom you have to lecture just enough to make them score >60% but definitely lose 100% of their innate curiosity.

Well actually, you would be coaching a batch of 8 kids, and you don't deliver lecturesyou facilitate the learning activities recommended in the lesson plan, in a way that is engaging for all kids and also each child actually learns through them.

You help students in setting appropriate academic goals (Maths, Science, Coding, etc.) and assist them in practicing and mastering these.

All the above happens in a psychologically safe environment that you create for the students so they can share their success and challenges openly and grow.

A learning coach is Someone with:

• Surprise surprise! Expertise in facilitating activities for small groups of students.
• Experience in teaching kids outside the traditional classroom setting, like finance, SEL, scientific thinking, etc. where you've inspired and engaged young minds.
• A quirky and playful personality around kids; they feel comfortable asking silly questions, cracking jokes, and seeing you as a friend.
• Immense curiosity about new things and you can model it for your kids.
• Impeccable English communication skills to engage our global student base.
• A growth mindsetyou love learning new things and will thrive in our constantly evolving environment.
• Patience and empathyyou understand kids, even on their challenging days.
• Strong computer skills (Docs, Sheets, ChatGPT).
• A passion for teaching and making a real impact.
• People with Karaoke/Improv skills, skip ahead to the last interview round!....JK!

Perks and Benefits:

• Work from home.
• Own a part of the company as ESOPs
• Get trained on learning science, behaviour science, facilitation skills, and more by self-proclaimed pioneers in the field of education.
• Your everyday life would be full of smiles.
• Experts rated our workplace environment to be 135% happier than others. These experts were 9 years old and had no knowledge of percentages.

Learn more about StayQrious:

1. How do we implement project based learning
2. The curriculum that you would be facilitating
3. Not to brag, but we made it to Y Combinator in our first year. Okay, a little bragging.