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GENERAL SUMMARY
The mission of the Alder Graduate School of Education is to create opportunity and
cultivate success for every student by recruiting and educating excellent teachers and leaders who reflect our schools’ communities.
At Alder, we invest in and develop great teachers. The Elementary Education Faculty will collaborate in building Alder’s educational
program with P12 school partners, and in ensuring the realization of our vision: outstanding teachers and leaders change students’
lives and make the world a better and more just place.
We are a small, entrepreneurial team looking for someone who enjoys working in
a flexible environment which encourages creativity, autonomy, collaboration, and excellence. The Elementary Education Faculty role is a
dynamic position and will support Alder regions in a variety of areas including the Bay Area, California’s Central Valley, Central
Coast, and Los Angeles.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES
Reporting to the Dean and working closely with the
Alder GSE team to support the mission, vision, and core values of Alder GSE, the essential responsibilities of the Elementary Education
Faculty include:
PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH
- Believe in and enact an asset-based, equity, and critical pedagogical
approach to teacher education. - Support the development of beginning teachers who are able to combine research and practice in
service of becoming scholar-practitioners. - Take a whole-child approach to education, emphasizing multiple aspects of child
development and specific attention to social-emotional learning in the learning process.
ACADEMIC PROGRAMS (faculty
duties)
- Work closely with the Dean and Alder Faculty to improve the academic program through course review, faculty
development, and evaluation of program inputs and achievements, specifically in their content area of expertise. - Design, co-design
and teach multiple Alder GSE courses (in a four-term academic year) related to elementary education, teaching, assessment, and other topics;
primary focus on literacy. - Commit to and embody a whole child, anti-racist, culturally relevant/sustaining, and inclusive
perspective to education and teacher education that also centers and values the integration of theory and practice. - Serve as
Course Lead as appropriate, guiding the work of adjunct faculty teaching the same section of the course taught by this role/content
specialist faculty. - Lead programming for clinical program supervisors in Elementary education.
- Design and lead seminar
content as needed in all Alder regions in Elementary education. - Serve as program supervisor as appropriate in Elementary
education.
EXTERNAL PARTNERSHIPS
- Work closely as a member of the Alder Academic Team, accomplishing key
responsibilities for program execution and improvement with P12 partners - Work closely with Alder Academic Team to ensure successful
work with other university partners - Articulate cohesive Alder academic program core and opportunities for contextual
differentiation alongside myriad Alder stakeholders - Work through the four primary learning formats: seminars, online courses,
course intensives, and mentor classrooms to ensure Alder realizes its mission and vision - Find ways to bridge the partnership
between P12 schools and the GSE to achieve the mission/vision
CULTURE OF SCHOLARSHIP
- Actively engage in
research and contribution to the field of teacher education - Work in concert with national partners to advance the field of teacher
education by participating in local and national conferences and networks
COLLABORATION WITHIN ALDER GSE
- Collaborate with the Dean, Sr. Director, Directors, and all Alder faculty to implement an effective program
- Assume leadership
of institutional and academic initiatives as appropriate - Collaborate in accreditation efforts including research, writing, and
committee work - Other Alder GSE duties as appropriate and assigned
If interested, please review this job
description submit a CV and cover letter to this link.
