Our mission is to accelerate human progress through education.
It is an absurdly ambitious mission — we are aiming to alter the course of human civilization. To achieve it, we must constantly improve how we are working with kids, so they can become as capable as possible. As a facilitator, you will be at the front lines working with kids and reporting opportunities for course corrections to our product, engineering, and curriculum teams.
Synthesis is a global community of students interested in working collaboratively to solve complex problems. Our programs help students practice making tough decisions, a necessary skill if we are to tackle the challenges and opportunities of the coming decades.
We believe students learn best through action, careful observation, and thoughtful conversations. Therefore, our Teaching Assistants are comfortable stepping back and allowing the students to help each other make sense of a problem and experiment with their own solutions.
The role of the TA consists primarily of two objectives:
Ensure all of the technical aspects of the class, from assigning Zoom breakout rooms to running the games on our in-house software, run smoothly;
Support the facilitator's attempts to create a positive and welcoming community for the students.