Expectations
Expectation 1: SPARK will incur obligations and make commitments to participants based on your availability to the program. It is imperative that you meet your obligations. Any sudden cancellation of your participation could severely damage the program’s quality.
Expectation 2: The highest priority of SPARK and all its members is the health and safety of all our participants, students, faculty and staff. It will be your responsibility, as a member of SPARK, to help make SPARK an environment in which students can learn and grow. Classes, activities, and trips all need to be places where students feel physically, emotionally, and intellectually safe, even when being challenged.
Expectation 3: The use of drugs or alcohol at SPARK is strictly prohibited. Because each faculty/staff member is responsible for the safety and well being of students, it is necessary to mandate a high standard for faculty/staff concerning the use of drugs and alcohol. As such, SPARK will require each applicant to undergo an authorized drug-and-alcohol screening. In turn, at no time should any faculty/staff member be under the influence of illegal or other non-medicinal drugs or possess them on-campus. At no time should any faculty/staff member be under the influence of alcohol on-duty.
Expectation 4: SPARK has a “No Tolerance” policy regarding harassment of any kind. SPARK will not tolerate any racial, sexual, physical, religious, and ethnic forms of harassment against any member of its faculty, staff or students. We will respond promptly and in accordance to any policies set forth by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
General Functions
Dynamic and creative individuals who would like a chance to step out of the norm and break the limitations textbooks can create and teach academic or non-academic courses in their major field of study or areas of expertise. Candidates can design innovative and intellectually inspiring courses. Potential instructors should submit detailed curriculum, lesson plans for their course(s), necessary materials and/or supplies. Candidates will also lead group discussions and activities, and advise and supervise participants, creating an interactive and comfortable learning atmosphere. Certified teachers must possess a current, state-issued teaching certificate in the area they wish to teach. Candidates certified in alternate subjects may be considered if they have an undergraduate degree in the area they wish to teach. Uncertified candidates can be considered if they possess certificates and/or documentation of expertise in the area or field in which they wish to teach.
