Alternative Licensure Instructor (ALI) – specializing in Teacher Education

University of Colorado
Denver

Alternative Licensure Instructor (ALI) – specializing in Teacher Education – 31132 Faculty
Description

Instructor

Alternative Licensure Instructor (ALI) –
specializing in Teacher Education

ASPIRE to Teach Alternative Teacher Licensure Program

School of Education and Human Development

1.0 FTE, 12-month Non-Tenure Track Faculty

Position # 618580 – Requisition #31132

The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) at the University
of Colorado Denver announces a full-time teacher educator position in our continuing and professional education (CPE) program, for the
ASPIRE to Teach Alternative Teacher Licensure Program.

We are seeking a K-12 experienced educator with expertise in the content of
teacher education and learning; someone with pedagogical, instructional, and coaching expertise that cuts across all content areas. The
person would serve in a transdisciplinary role as a pedagogical and instructional coach, mentor, learning guide, and professional learning
facilitator. Endorsement areas could include business, physical education, computer science, family and consumer sciences, the visual and
performing arts, etc. Applicants must have demonstrated expertise in adult learning, the use of instructional technologies for remote
learning, online curriculum facilitation, instructional leadership in professional learning communities, coaching of practicing teachers,
engagement in collaborative work, and a history of working with non-dominant communities.

The ASPIRE to Teach philosophical
approach to alternative teacher licensure features the interplay of the following theoretical frameworks:

How People
Learn as a way to organize thinking about the design of effective learning environments through the overlapping principles: learner
centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered.

CREDE’s (Center for Research on
Education, Diversity, & Excellence) Five Standards of Effective Pedagogy establishing ideals for best teaching practices, especially for
students whose potential is challenged by language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty.

Culturally Responsive Instruction, Curriculum, and Classroom Management frameworks consciously and systematically
woven throughout all learning experiences promoting knowledge, skills, and dispositions of sociocultural conscious teachers.

Universal Design for Learning instructional design principles that give all students
equitable opportunities to learn.

High Leverage Practices, the fundamentals of
teaching

This role also includes the responsibility for evaluating Alternative Licensed Candidates
(ALCs) who are Teachers of Record in a Colorado school for completion of work required to be eligible for Initial Teacher License in
Colorado. In this role you are responsible for the continued development, implementation, and coordination of the ASPIRE to Teach curriculum
and program. Demonstrated expertise in pedagogy and instruction, as well as documented experience as a teacher developer at the K-12 or
higher education level is required. The position is located in the Denver-metro area. Job responsibilities also include some evening and
weekend work.

Responsibilities

Teaching (80%)

Support and mentor your caseload of candidates across all endorsement areas by:

o Providing timely ongoing specific feedback and assessing the performance on work submitted to online learning modules.

o Providing timely ongoing specific feedback and assess the performance on work submitted to online video
coaching portal.

o Meeting 1:1 with candidates monthly via video conference

o Tracking and reporting candidate program and teacher development progress

Contribute
expertise related to the ASPIRE program philosophical frameworks.

Design and facilitate candidate
learning in authentic remote Professional Learning Community (PLCs) that supports their development as effective
educators.

Communicate regularly with candidates regarding progress in the classroom and ASPIRE
program.

ALI Team and Collective Program Work (20%)

Provide ongoing support to other ALIs by offering resources and tools and sharing “best practices.”

Ability to work collaboratively on an interdependent team.

Contribute to program and
curriculum development in collaboration with colleagues.

Take on different program leadership
roles, as needed.

Ability to seek out, give and receive collegial feedback.

A disposition of curiosity, ability to hold multiple perspectives, and the skills to foster relationships with ALIs, ALCs,
program staff, and administrators across multiple institutions.

Tolerance for ambiguity due to the
dynamic nature of the program and work.

Participate in various ASPIRE team meeting structures.

Meet as needed with the faculty and staff in the main School of Education & Human Development for
collaboration and resource sharing.

Engage in program evaluation activities.

Supervision Exercised:

None

Supervision Received:

This position will report to the Executive
Director of Alternative Licensure.

Location:

Denver-metro area (this is not a remote position)

Why Join
Us:

ASPIRE to Teach is an alternative licensure program for general and special
educators. We partner with Teach for America Colorado, school districts, charter schools, facility schools, and independent schools
throughout the state, providing initial teacher licensure and professional learning opportunities through our fully online learning content
modules, candidate (teacher) coaching, facilitation of professional learning communities (PLC), and teacher development assessment process.

The School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver is a highly
collaborative program that includes university faculty and P-12 educators and community members. Our mission is to prepare and inspire
teacher leaders to have a profound impact in fostering student opportunity, achievement, and success in urban and diverse communities.
Faculty develop and maintain close partnerships with schools and other educational and community agencies situated in social and economic
contexts with diverse student and community populations.

The School of Education and Human Development at
the University of Colorado Denver is a statewide and national leader for educational quality, access and equity across the education
lifespan, birth through higher education. Our undergraduate and graduate programs prepare and inspire education and human development
leaders to have profound impacts in fostering student opportunity, achievement and success in diverse communities throughout Colorado. We
believe that all students deserve access to an excellent education; that all communities deserve well-supported high-quality schools; and
all individuals and families deserve access to mental and community health resources that support their well-being. Our academic programs,
our world-class faculty and our curriculum reflect this philosophy of inclusion and social justice. Through innovative research and
partnerships, we strive to be passionate agents of change, inspiring upcoming generations to learn from the past and shape the future. Our
commitment to diversity and inclusion works toward a more just and compassionate world. Our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion approach is
described here: https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=4590048&targetURL=618580 – Requisition #31132

The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) at the University of Colorado Denver announces a full-time
teacher educator position in our continuing and professional education (CPE) program, for the ASPIRE to Teach Alternative Teacher Licensure
Program.

We are seeking a K-12 experienced educator with expertise in the content of teacher education
and learning; someone with pedagogical, instructional, and coaching expertise that cuts across all content areas. The person would serve in
a transdisciplinary role as a pedagogical and instructional coach, mentor, learning guide, and professional learning facilitator.
Endorsement areas could include business, physical education, computer science, family and consumer sciences, the visual and performing
arts, etc. Applicants must have demonstrated expertise in adult learning, the use of instructional technologies for remote learning, online
curriculum facilitation, instructional leadership in professional learning communities, coaching of practicing teachers, engagement in
collaborative work, and a history of working with non-dominant communities.

The ASPIRE to Teach
philosophical approach to alternative teacher licensure features the interplay of the following theoretical frameworks:

How People Learn as a way to organize thinking about the design of effective learning
environments through the overlapping principles: learner centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and community centered.

CREDE’s (Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence) Five Standards of
Effective Pedagogy establishing ideals for best teaching practices, especially for students whose potential is challenged by language or
cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty.

Culturally Responsive Instruction,
Curriculum, and Classroom Management frameworks consciously and systematically woven throughout all learning experiences promoting
knowledge, skills, and dispositions of sociocultural conscious teachers.

Universal Design
for Learning instructional design principles that give all students equitable opportunities to learn.

High Leverage Practices, the fundamentals of teaching

This role also includes the
responsibility for evaluating Alternative Licensed Candidates (ALCs) who are Teachers of Record in a Colorado school for completion of work
required to be eligible for Initial Teacher License in Colorado. In this role you are responsible for the continued development,
implementation, and coordination of the ASPIRE to Teach curriculum and program. Demonstrated expertise in pedagogy and instruction, as well
as documented experience as a teacher developer at the K-12 or higher education level is required. The position is located in the
Denver-metro area. Job responsibilities also include some evening and weekend work.

Responsibilities

Teaching (80%)

Support and mentor your caseload of candidates across all endorsement areas by:

o Providing
timely ongoing specific feedback and assessing the performance on work submitted to online learning modules.

o Providing timely ongoing specific feedback and assess the performance on work submitted to online video coaching
portal.

o Meeting 1:1 with candidates monthly via video conference

o
Tracking and reporting candidate program and teacher development progress

Contribute expertise related to
the ASPIRE program philosophical frameworks.

Design and facilitate candidate learning in
authentic remote Professional Learning Community (PLCs) that supports their development as effective educators.

Communicate regularly with candidates regarding progress in the classroom and ASPIRE program.

ALI Team and Collective Program Work (20%)

Provide ongoing support to other
ALIs by offering resources and tools and sharing “best practices.”

Ability to work collaboratively on an
interdependent team.

Contribute to program and curriculum development in collaboration with
colleagues.

Take on different program leadership roles, as needed.

Ability to seek out, give and receive collegial feedback.

A disposition of
curiosity, ability to hold multiple perspectives, and the skills to foster relationships with ALIs, ALCs, program staff, and administrators
across multiple institutions.

Tolerance for ambiguity due to the dynamic nature of the program and work.

Participate in various ASPIRE team meeting structures.

Meet as needed
with the faculty and staff in the main School of Education & Human Development for collaboration and resource sharing.

Engage in program evaluation activities.

Supervision
Exercised:

None

Supervision
Received:

This position will report to the Executive Director of Alternative
Licensure.

Location:

Denver-metro area (this is not a
remote position)

Why Join Us:

ASPIRE to Teach
is an alternative licensure program for general and special educators. We partner with Teach for America Colorado, school districts, charter
schools, facility schools, and independent schools throughout the state, providing initial teacher licensure and professional learning
opportunities through our fully online learning content modules, candidate (teacher) coaching, facilitation of professional learning
communities (PLC), and teacher development assessment process.

The School of Education and Human
Development at the University of Colorado Denver is a highly collaborative program that includes university faculty and P-12 educators and
community members. Our mission is to prepare and inspire teacher leaders to have a profound impact in fostering student opportunity,
achievement, and success in urban and diverse communities. Faculty develop and maintain close partnerships with schools and other
educational and community agencies situated in social and economic contexts with diverse student and community
populations.

The School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado Denver is a
statewide and national leader for educational quality, access and equity across the education lifespan, birth through higher education. Our
undergraduate and graduate programs prepare and inspire education and human development leaders to have profound impacts in fostering
student opportunity, achievement and success in diverse communities throughout Colorado. We believe that all students deserve access to an
excellent education; that all communities deserve well-supported high-quality schools; and all individuals and families deserve access to
mental and community health resources that support their well-being. Our academic programs, our world-class faculty and our curriculum
reflect this philosophy of inclusion and social justice. Through innovative research and partnerships, we strive to be passionate agents of
change, inspiring upcoming generations to learn from the past and shape the future. Our commitment to diversity and inclusion works toward a
more just and compassionate world. Our Equity, Diversity & Inclusion approach is described here: https://apptrkr.com/get_redirect.php?id=4590048&targetURL=The School of Education & Human Development (SEHD) at
the University of Colorado Denver announces a full-time teacher educator position in our continuing and professional education (CPE)
program, for the ASPIRE to Teach Alternative Teacher Licensure Program.

We are seeking a K-12 experienced
educator with expertise in the content of teacher education and learning; someone with pedagogical, instructional, and coaching expertise
that cuts across all content areas. The person would serve in a transdisciplinary role as a pedagogical and instructional coach, mentor,
learning guide, and professional learning facilitator. Endorsement areas could include business, physical education, computer science,
family and consumer sciences, the visual and performing arts, etc. Applicants must have demonstrated expertise in adult learning, the use of
instructional technologies for remote learning, online curriculum facilitation, instructional leadership in professional learning
communities, coaching of practicing teachers, engagement in collaborative work, and a history of working with non-dominant communities.

The ASPIRE to Teach philosophical approach to alternative teacher licensure features the interplay of
the following theoretical frameworks:

How People Learn as a way to organize thinking about the
design of effective learning environments through the overlapping principles: learner centered, knowledge centered, assessment centered, and
community centered.

CREDE’s (Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence) Five
Standards of Effective Pedagogy establishing ideals for best teaching practices, especially for students whose potential is challenged by
language or cultural barriers, race, geographic location, or poverty.

Culturally Responsive
Instruction, Curriculum, and Classroom Management frameworks consciously and systematically woven throughout all learning experiences
promoting knowledge, skills, and dispositions of sociocultural conscious teachers.

Universal Design for Learning instructional design principles that give all students equitable opportunities to learn.

High Leverage Practices, the fundamentals of teaching

This role also includes the responsibility for evaluating Alternative Licensed Candidates (ALCs) who are Teachers of Record
in a Colorado school for completion of work required to be eligible for Initial Teacher License in Colorado. In this role you are
responsible for the continued development, implementation, and coordination of the ASPIRE to Teach curriculum and program. Demonstrated
expertise in pedagogy and instruction, as well as documented experience as a teacher developer at the K-12 or higher education level is
required. The position is located in the Denver-metro area. Job responsibilities also include some evening and weekend work.