College/Unit: Education - Sarasota-Manatee campus

Discipline: Elementary Education

Position Number: 00003862 and 00024409

Position Title/Rank: Assistant Professor of Instruction

Tenure Status: Instructor Non-tenure Line

Salary Range: Commensurate with qualifications and experience

Months: 9 months

About the College Home to more than 2,600 students and 130 faculty members, the University of South Florida’s College of Education values high-quality education and excellence in research, teaching, and learning. The college is nationally accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and the educator preparation programs are fully approved by the Florida Department of Education. At a time when the skills and pedagogy of classroom teachers and school administrators is more important than ever, the USF College of Education offers state-of- the-art teacher training and collaborative and collegial graduate studies designed to empower educational leaders. Working closely with school district partners across the Tampa Bay region, the College seeks to partner with the community to extend proven educational initiatives and discover new ways of preparing life-long learners. The USF College of Education is in the top 100 (#64 for 2021) in overall rankings for “America’s Best Graduate Schools – Education.”

Department of Curriculum, Instruction, and Learning (CIL)

The department has programs on the Tampa, St. Petersburg, and Sarasota-Manatee campuses. CIL houses 8 programs, including elementary education (multi-campus), early childhood education, education (elementary and special education), and content specialties at the secondary level, including mathematics education, science education, social science education, and English education. The department is home to 28 full-time faculty members. Our mission focuses on transforming lives through the promotion of equity, social justice, and improved education for students and communities particularly those that have been underserved. CI&L faculty and partners engage in innovative research, expert pedagogical practices, and distinctive community engagement targeted at positively improving the lives of children, families, and adults across diverse educational settings (from CIL Mission).

The candidate for this position will work in the Elementary Education Program on the Sarasota-Manatee Campus. The Elementary Education Program is a clinically-intensive teacher preparation program with rich school partnerships across local districts. The program prepares preservice teachers for future positions as K-6 classroom teachers. The elementary undergraduate teacher preparation program at USF Sarasota-Manatee is committed to preparing teacher candidates who apply critical thinking and inquiry skills in response to classroom challenges to creatively design inclusive and equitable classrooms using arts integration approaches. We promote the development of an inquiry stance toward teaching where our students engage in regular, systematic, and intentional study of their practice using multiple forms of data. We are committed to supporting our preservice teachers in utilizing innovative practices, including the use of technology and multimodal instruction, to solve the continued challenges we face in education. Finally, as elementary educators, we feel it is imperative to promote an interdisciplinary approach to integrating content across the curriculum, as well as making ongoing theory to practice and practice to theory connections.

The Position(s): Assistant Professor of Instruction (9-month, Non-Tenure track): The candidate(s) will work collaboratively with elementary faculty in an innovative, clinically rich, partnership-based teacher preparation program. Responsibilities will include supervision and instructional coaching of interns in clinically based internships, course instruction (e.g., classroom management and instructional planning), collaborating with partnership schools, and providing support to elementary inservice teachers. The position effective date is August 7, 2023 and is a 9-month position. There are two position openings (one with clinical coordination included as part of the workload) and candidates are encouraged to apply to both.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Earned master’s in elementary education or related field (e.g., curriculum/instruction, teacher education) by August 7, 2023
• Three years of successful teaching experience (K-6 setting)

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Earned doctorate in elementary education or related field (e.g., curriculum/instruction, teacher education)
• Successful experience coaching pre- and/or inservice teachers within the university and/or the elementary classroom.
• Successful university teaching experience in elementary and/or teacher education
• Demonstrated commitment to social justice, arts-integration, interdisciplinary inquiry, school-university partnerships, community engagement, and/or global impact
• Experience in schools with diverse student populations (e.g., socio-economic, racial, linguistic, geographic (urban/rural), exceptional students)
• Experience with the integration of technology and/or online instruction
• Experience conducting practice-based research (e.g., teacher inquiry, action research, self-study)
• Experience in arts integration