Field Trip Fun! Learn & Teach History and Art

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Rekindle your elementary school love of field trips! Learn and teach about local history and art.

The Field Trip Specialist supports elementary school field trips to the Five Oaks Museum through supporting activity facilitation, preparing field trip materials, and leading tours of the PCC Rock Creek campus. In the 2019-20 school year, the museum offers two field trip topics: This IS Kalapuyan Land, which offers Native perspectives on the Kalapuyan peoples and contemporary Native culture in Portland; and Tualatin Valley: Recognizing Community Changes, which guides students through an overview of local history and how life has changed through the years. Our approach is based on open-ended questioning and encouraging critical thinking through object and art analysis. With your support, all students can have a thought-provoking and fun-filled field trip to the museum.

Key Duties:

• Assist the Learning Coordinator in facilitating field trip activities, including art and object discussion

• Set-up and clean-up field trip materials

• On select dates, lead groups of elementary school students and their teacher/chaperones on museum field trips through a campus tour guided by a worksheet provided by the museum

• Support students in meeting behavior expectations in the museum and college environment

• Learn about museum exhibits and local history to share and discuss with students

All-Staff Responsibilities

• Advance the museum’s mission, vision, and values in the delivery of your work and interpersonal conduct

• Support membership and public support through excellent, informed customer service

• Assist with additional tasks as needed to foster overall health of the organization

Qualifications:

• 1+ year experience working with elementary age children (babysitting ok)

• Friendly and positive attitude towards children and adults

• Willingness to learn teaching strategies and discuss and communicate accurate information about history and art, including difficult topics and multiple perspectives

• Excited about teaching and learning through open-ended questions

• Dependable and punctual

Hours:

• Thursday and/or Friday, during field trip hours 9 am to 12:30 pm

• Must be available for the entire 3.5 hours on at least one of the days.
  Must attend Learning Volunteer Training on Tuesday, February 18.
• Please commit to attend regularly for the duration of the semester or elementary school year, with potential to continue in the summer if desired

Position in Organization:

Reports to: Learning Coordinator

Location: Five Oaks Museum, on the PCC Rock Creek campus, 17677 NW Springville Rd. Portland, OR, 97229

• • Gain teaching experience and learn to facilitate creative questions, critical thinking through art analysis, and approach difficult topics with young people

  • Earn a museum membership which includes free admission to other local attractions

  • Immersion in local history, with an emphasis on Native perspectives

  • Create positive exposure for children to museums and college; for many students their field trip may be their first visit to a museum and to a college campus

  • Become part of the Five Oaks Museum family at an exciting time; we are a small museum in the process of pivoting to center community stories and arts integration and we love the ideas and backgrounds that all of our volunteers bring to the table