Volunteer Teacher Aides
For Hands-On School Programs

Do you love hands-on learning and working with youth? Would you enjoy working with park rangers and professional museum teachers? If you are looking for career experience or would like to resume your career in education, volunteering as a part-time museum teacher's aide at the Tsongas Industrial History Center could be for you. As a teacher's aide, you will receive training, work side-by side with professional park rangers and museum teachers, helping give innovative, hands-on school programs.

The Tsongas Center, located in the Boott Cotton Mills Museum, is a partnership of the University of Massachusetts Lowell and Lowell National Historical Park. See position description that follows. Volunteers are needed for the busy spring season starting in March. Please respond or apply as soon as possible. For more information, contact Lowell National Historical Park Volunteer Office at 978-275-1740 or Lowell_NHP_Volunteers@nps.gov. You may apply by mailing a resume with a letter of application to Volunteer Office, Lowell National Historical Park, 67 Kirk Street, Lowell, MA 01852

Museum Teacher's Aide Position Description

Museum TeacherÕs Aides are volunteers who assist Museum Teachers and National Park Rangers at the Tsongas Industrial History Center present educational programs to visiting school groups. Aides help students to learn and perform a variety of hands-on activities in several different Tsongas Center workshops. More specifically, they teach students to weave, perform minor loom maintenance, and instruct students in pre-industrial textile production in one workshop. In another, they help students construct model canals and teach them to perform experiments with water wheels. In another, they act as laboratory assistants in an environmental lab. Aides always work with professional Museum Teachers. The ability to work well with students in grades four through eight is required. Some knowledge of US history is useful, but not required. A commitment to work at least one four-hour day per week is required. Aides are supervised by the Supervisory Park Ranger for Education at Lowell National Historical Park.