Job Details

University of San Francisco
  • Position Number: 5407912
  • Location: San Francisco, CA
  • Position Type: Education - Teacher Education - Elementary


Teacher Ed Adjunct Faculty
University of San Francisco

R0009376
USF Hilltop Campus

Job Title:
Teacher Ed Adjunct Faculty

Job Summary:
Our Mission:
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private, urban University with a global perspective that educates leaders who will fashion a more humane and just world. The University offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional students the knowledge, skills, and values needed to be leaders in their field, life-long learners, and in service to others. USF draws from the cultural, intellectual, and economic resources of the San Francisco Bay Area and its location on the Pacific Rim to enrich its educational programs.

Teacher Education Department Mission:
USF Teacher Education Department (TED) is committed to preparing strong, pedagogically sound and innovative teachers for today's increasingly diverse society. We want the teachers we cultivate to be reflective practitioners who foster intellectual growth, holistic development, and a multicultural democratic community in their classrooms and schools. We want these teachers and educational partners to provide their students - especially those most vulnerable to systemic injustices - an equitable, responsive, and empowering education.

Our program aspires to actualize principles of social justice and the inherent dignity of all people in the struggle against multiple forms of oppression. These principles include humanizing relationships, democratic participation, critical inquiry, and collective action for the common good. We hope our graduates leave our department with a deepened social consciousness and proclivity towards continual development that will shape their work. We believe that education should be a joyous and creative endeavor and that its primary purpose should be to shape a more just, humane, and healthy world.

Full Job Description:
Hiring for the Teacher Ed Branch Campus- East Bay at Merritt College in Oakland, CA

Full Job Description:

The Teacher Education Department in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco is seeking adjunct instructors to teach the course listed below. Adjunct instructors must be committed to and have demonstrated within their work principles outlined in the TED Mission Statement. Positions are available Fall 2024, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025. We encourage qualified candidates to apply as soon as possible. Below are descriptions of the course that need staffing.

OPEN POSITIONS FOR FALL 2024

TEC 610 - Learning and Teaching

Explores key elements of learning and teaching in socio-culturally diverse classrooms. Provides opportunities for candidates to practice curriculum design, assessment, approaches to discussion, collaborative learning, and problem-solving related to classroom dynamics. Draws connections between learning theories and teaching practices. Topics include: purposes of schooling; addressing diverse needs, backgrounds, and strengths of students; engaging students in meaningful learning experiences; and developing as a reflective practitioner. Requires additional fieldwork such as classroom observations at a school site.

3.000 Credit hours

TEC 618 - Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

What does it mean to teach for diversity and social justice? This course analyzes the forces that contribute to educational injustices, and how we as teachers can work against these injustices through culturally responsive teaching, transformative curriculum, and other anti-oppression practices. The key purpose is for teachers to develop as change agents and advocates for historically marginalized students.
3.000 Credit hours

TEC 643 - Education of Exceptional Children

Introduction to special education that recognizes the differences and the similarities of the needs of exceptional and non-exceptional pupils, utilizes nondiscriminatory assessment of such needs, and applies diagnostic information toward modification of school curricula and instructional methods and materials, including study of assistive and adaptive technologies for the classroom.
3.000 Credit hours

TEC 621 - Multiple Subject Curriculum and Instruction: Early Literacy

Focuses on theoretical principles, relevant curriculum, and pedagogical strategies necessary for developing and maintaining a balanced comprehensive literacy program that addresses the full range of learners in grades PK-3 and includes reading, writing, listening, speaking and critical literacy. Topics include emergent literacy, word analysis, fluency vocabulary development, comprehension strategies; use of digital resources. Candidates will gain experience in PK-3 literacy assessment and planning instruction based on students' strengths and needs. Fifteen (15) hours of fieldwork required, to be arranged with course instructor.
3.000 Credit hours

TEC 615 - Single Subject Curriculum and Instruction I: Math or Science

Introduction to the study of scope and sequence, pedagogical approaches, methods, materials, and media appropriate for teaching Math or Science within the middle and high school curriculum.
3.000 Credit hours

TEC 602 - Multiple Subject Curriculum and Instruction: Visual and Performing Arts

Study of research and practice related to subject-matter content, instructional methods, materials, and media appropriate for teaching visual and performing arts within the elementary school curriculum.
1.000 Credit hours

TEC 642 - Health Education

Study of the subject-matter content and instructional methods, materials, media, and technology used in teaching personal, family, and community health, including hygiene, nutrition, and the psychological and social effects of the abuse of alcohol, tobacco, and dangerous drugs. CPR CERTIFICATE NOT INCLUDED.
1.000 Credit hours

Credits/Compensation: Adjuncts are paid per credit hour

Full-Time/Part-Time:
Part time

Pay Rate:
Salary

Salary Range :
$2,815/unit

To apply, visit https://usfca.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USF_Adjunct/job/USF-Hilltop-Campus/Teacher-Ed-Adjunct-Faculty_R0009376.

The University of San Francisco is located in the heart of one of the worlds most innovative and diverse cities, and is home to a vibrant academic community of students and faculty who achieve excellence in their fields. Its diverse student body enjoys direct access to faculty, small classes and outstanding opportunities in the city itself. USF is San Francisco's first university, and its Jesuit Catholic mission helps ignite a students passion for social justice and a desire to "Change the World From Here." For more information, visit http://www.usfca.edu.







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