Elementary and Middle School Makerspace Teacher - Summer 2026 in Seattle, Washington at Lakeside School

About the Role:

Summer at Lakeside is currently recruiting for a Elementary and Middle School Makerspace teacher to teach at our Investigative Learning Camp (ILC), an academic and experiential summer camp designed for students entering grades 3-8. The three courses we are hiring for are Makerspace: Game and Puzzle Design (Gr.3-4), which runs July 20-24, 8:45-11:45am; Makerspace: Architecture & Engineering (Gr.3-4), which runs July 27-31, 8:45-11:45am; and Makerspace: Intro to Entrepreneurship (Gr.5-8), which runs July 20-24 and July 27-31, 12:30-3:30pm. In all of these Makerespace courses, students will learn and practice the Design Thinking Process: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Through hands-on activities and challenges, campers identify problems worth solving, brainstorm, and create or build original solutions. Most ILC Makerspace classes culminate in a showcase, presentation, or friendly competition at the end of the week.

The Investigative Learning Camp offers students the opportunity to take classes covering STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) -based topics. All courses encourage creative play and hands-on learning; courses are project-based and do not assume students have any previous knowledge of the subject matter. No homework is assigned.

There will be a mandatory orientation meeting on Wednesday, July 1. Visit our Investigative Learning Camp (Gr.5-8) and Investigative Learning Camp Jr. (Gr.3-4) webpages to read more about this camp, including descriptions of the courses offered for summer 2026.

Specific Responsibilities:

• Create an inclusive and culturally responsive curriculum that encourages creativity, collaboration, risk-taking, and critical thinking.
• Create organized and engaging lesson plans that include additional challenges for each day
• Order and organize supplies as necessary
• Supervise and instruct a diverse group of students that have different educational backgrounds and experiences
• Train and supervise the assigned high-school counselor, who serves as a classroom teaching assistant
• Provide individual support and adapt different teaching strategies for students needing additional instruction

Requirements and Qualifications:

• Demonstrated cultural awareness, including knowledge of themselves and the cultural lenses they bring to interactions. The candidate will understand different perspectives; interact respectfully with cultures other than their own; and cultivate meaningful relationships with people that have different cultural frameworks.
• Prior experience teaching a diverse group of elementary, middle-school, or high-school age students; demonstrated equity and inclusion mindset.
• Candidates should be aware of their own identity and biases; candidate actively works to create an inclusive classroom environment.
• A bachelor’s degree, masters degree in a relevant subject area preferred
• Experience with inclusive and multicultural curriculum development
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Positive and collaborative attitude
• Candidates must satisfactorily complete two criminal background checks.
• Valid CPR & First Aid certification by July 1, 2026.

Compensation and Benefits
The stipend for this position is $4,000. Lunch is included. The course may only run if enough students register. Enrollment will remain open until June 1. If the number of students enrolled is too small to run by June 1, or if the course is canceled for any reason, the stipend will not be paid. Summer at Lakeside also offers free camp for children (Gr.3-8) of all summer employees for the weeks when they are working for the summer program. Employees must register their children via the Summer at Lakeside webpage.

Application Process

Interested candidates should submit a brief cover letter, resume, and work history. The application process will remain open until a qualified candidate has accepted an offer. Applicants being considered will be interviewed. Interviews will be conducted via Zoom. Application materials need to be submitted online. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Lakeside School is an equal opportunity employer seeking to diversify its workplace.

Working At Lakeside
At Lakeside we are committed to sustaining a school in which individuals representing diverse cultures and experiences instruct one another in the meaning and value of community. To learn more about working at Lakeside, including our professional development and mentoring programs, benefits, diversity and inclusion, and opportunities for involvement in non-academic programs, please visit our Careers page on the Lakeside School website.