Description:

Hickory Hill, the historic home of Senator Thomas E. Watson has an education internship available for an upcoming professional interested in archaeology, history, ecology, and educating children. The site is owned and operated by the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc.
Under the direction of the Curator and the Educator, the Intern will conduct
4 weeks of summer camps for local teens & tweens. Two weeks are devoted to archaeology with excavations at the Jeffersonian Publishing Plant site. Two weeks are focused on History and the Environment. The Intern will be co-teaching with the Educator, and will assist with curriculum development.

1000 per month. Housing is provided in a furnished cottage at Hickory Hill. All utilities, Internet, and cable TV are paid. Laundry facilities on-site.

Qualifications:

Requirements, Abilities & Skills:
• an enrolled university student, recent graduate, or graduate student in anthropology, history, museum education, public history, or education
• Responsible, reliable, and dedicated to job performance.
• Ability to learn information quickly.
• Experience working with children.
• Ability to teach activities to a group.
• A desire to work with the public.
• A desire to work outdoors.
• Commitment to being a team player.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Creative problem solving and ability to use available resources.
• Able to pass a drug test and background check.
• First Aid and CPR skills are a plus, but not mandatory.

Paid Internship Info:

$1000/month plus housing

Hours:

Mon - Fri, 8am - 5pm

Start Date:

5/25/2012

End Date:

3/1/2012, 8/3/2012

Deadline:

29 February 2012

Additional Info:

Located in Thomson, Georgia, Hickory Hill is situated on 256 wooded and landscaped acres; the house and grounds interpret the life and political career of Senator Thomas E. Watson, Georgia’s foremost Populist statesman and trial attorney. The site is owned and operated by the Watson-Brown Foundation, Inc. Watson-Brown is a private non-profit operating foundation dedicated to improving education in the American South by funding its schools and students, preserving its history, encouraging responsible scholarship, and promoting the memory and values of its spiritual founders. www.hickory-hill.org

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museum  education  archaeology  history  Georgia 

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