School of Education, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education, Tenure Track | Loyola University Chicago - Military Veterans

Job Description: The School of Education ( SOE ) at Loyola University Chicago invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position as Assistant Professor of Teacher Education. The selected individual will join the Teaching and Leaming (T&L) program area faculty in the SOE's accredited undergraduate and graduate programs, each of which is shaped around the SOE's conceptual framework of advancing professionalism in the service of social justice. Candidates must demonstrate an understanding of culturally responsive, antiracist, and social justice education practices across a variety of learning and education contexts. Candidates must demonstrate skill in applying learning, instructional, and assessment theories across a variety of learning and education contexts. Candidates must also demonstrate a collaborative nature and commitment to collegiality, trust, and building strong working relationships within Teaching & Leaming and the larger SOE and university communities. Candidate must demonstrate the dispositions to work with colleagues across these same contexts to build stronger programs that emphasize critical social justice and anti-racism. The main responsibilities of these positions include the following: Maintaining a teaching load of both undergraduate and graduate courses and modules. Courses are offered in university classrooms, while modules are field-based learning experiences of varying credit hours, which primarily take place within partner school sites. Undergraduate responsibilities include working with students who are pursuing initial Illinois educator licensure in early childhood, elementary, middle grades, secondary, and/or special education. Graduate responsibilities include maintaining a teaching load of graduate courses, supervising doctoral dissertations and dissertations in practice, and supporting independent studies for graduate students. Fulfilling the service responsibilities of a tenure-track professor, including advising students, service to T&L programs, the SOE , the larger university, community, and profession. This faculty member will be expected to provide leadership within the T&L program by assuming responsibility for program accreditation, design/redesign, and assessment in their area(s) or expertise, as well as overseeing a semester of the teacher education program continuum as a Sequence Lead. Fulfilling the scholarship responsibilities of a tenure track faculty member, including developing a research agenda, presenting at regional and national conferences, seeking research funding, and publishing in outlets relevant to their area of research and practice. Collaborating regularly with T&L faculty across specialty areas in efforts to develop and provide student support, maintain high-quality programming, and advance the Teaching and Learning program goals and priorities. Maintaining and enhancing existing partnerships with schools and community agencies. This includes building relationships with teachers and administrators on-site alongside other faculty members. Job candidates should have experience in teacher education. Further, candidates must have teaching experience and related licensure in multiple age groups, content areas, and settings. These may include early childhood, bilingual/EL, elementary, middle grades, special education, and/or secondary education. The person will work with students across specialty areas as well as teaching general modules for students who have not yet chosen a specialty area. These modules include topics such as culturally responsive teaching, working with multilingual learners, educational learning theories, educational policy and philosophy, and other topics. Experience with clinical supervision of teacher candidates is also preferred, given that T&L modules use an apprenticeship approach to building the knowledge and skills of future teachers. We seek candidates who demonstrate a strong commitment to urban education and learning with a dedication to serving historically minoritized populations consistent with Loyola University Chicago's commitment to advancing social justice through transformative education. Candidates will demonstrate a commitment to collegiality and collaboration within the T&L program and larger SOE and university community. Minimum Education and/or Work Experience: Minimum Qualifications: 1. Earned doctorate in Teacher Education, Learning Sciences, Curriculum & Instruction, or a related field, with a potential for scholarship production within these fields preferably from an accredited program. 2. Current or previous state educator licensure 3. Multiple areas of teaching expertise and experience in two or more of the following settings: early childhood, elementary, middle grades, secondary, or special education 4. Research experience in the candidate's given field of expertise Preferred Experiential Qualifications: 1. Urban education experiences and demonstrated efforts to address social justice 2. Successful prior work in teacher education 3. Supervision or field-based work with practicum students and/or interns 4. Knowledge of and experience with the International Baccalaureate (IB) and IB schools 5. Experience with multilingual learners and multilingualism Job Type: Full-Time