Research Instructors take a leadership role in designing the technical Artificial Intelligence (AI) curriculum. They work closely with the Princeton AI4ALL Program Directors, with the AI4ALL Curriculum Manager, and with the Ethics Instructors. The Research Instructors build off of teaching materials and feedback from prior years to teach AI in an accessible and inclusive way to high school students.
This position is temporary.
Responsibilities of the Research Instructor position include:
- Taking leadership on the overall development and delivery of the curriculum
- Working together with other Research Instructors to develop and deliver the daily lectures on core machine learning concepts. On different days an individual Research Instructor may either take the lead in teaching or may provide support as a teaching assistant in the classroom.
- Developing and delivering one of the hands-on research projects, likely together with one other Research Instructor. Each research project will be focus on an AI for social good application. A particular challenge for Research Instructors will be to develop curriculum that is accessible to high school students who may not have had prior programming experience.
- Working closely with the participants to develop and practice their final oral presentation to showcase their findings at the end of the program
- Assisting with recruiting and coordinating with expert guest lectures
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