Fall 2025 Teaching Assistant - Remote

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About Mission Bit

Mission Bit is a San Francisco-based nonprofit that inspires youth of color to explore the world of STEM with project-based computer science education that embraces their identities. We offer a variety of hands-on STEM education programs, including biweekly, semester-long introductory coding courses.

The role

As a Teaching Assistant for our Intro to Game Design class, you’ll promote a welcoming and supportive class community, foster productive collaboration, track student progress, and help students realize their potential.

We’re proud to provide training to all instructional staff to prepare them to teach, along with ongoing support throughout the semester!

If you have a passion for community, social justice, and coding, and if you want to uplift Bay Area youth and bridge the tech divide, then this might be the opportunity for you! Bilingual candidates are strongly encouraged to apply (especially those who speak Spanish).

This is a seasonal, semester-based, remote role based in San Francisco, CA, from August 21 to December 11, 2025, with 6+/- hours per week.

Schedule

Instructor Training

  • Live virtual training: September 2 - 3, 2025, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
    • In addition to the live training session(s), staff are required to complete ~8 hours of self-paced training. All staff are required to complete and attend the trainings
  • In-person instructors only: 1-hour classroom site visit (date and time TBD, more details to come)

Class Dates

  • September 8, 2025 - December 5, 2025
  • Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:50 PM - 7:10 PM

Weekly Meetings

  • 45-minute weekly meetings with the instructional team on Mondays, 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM over Zoom

Additional dates:

  • Demo Day: December 5, 2025 in San Francisco
  • End-of-semester meeting: 30 minutes between December 8 - 11, 2025

Hours

  • 6 +/- hours per week

Location

  • remote

What you’ll be doing:

70% Community building, classroom management, and student support

  • Create an inclusive and community-based classroom culture surrounding the Mission Bit core values of social justice, community, accountability, smart risks, and love
  • Plan and lead community-building games and activities
  • Foster individual and meaningful relationships with students
  • Promote positive, productive collaboration between students
  • Ensure students receive the support they need throughout the course to effectively and confidently showcase a capstone project at our Demo Day
  • Effectively manage classroom behavior to foster a productive learning environment for all students
  • Lead class in the event the lead instructor is out

20% Professional collaboration

  • Attend weekly staff meetings (to be determined at the start of the semester).
  • Communicate and collaborate with Lead Instructor and other instructional staff

10% Communication

  • Communicate course progress to students and their families
  • Communicate student progress and success throughout the course to the Program Staff so we can collectively support students’ learning
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