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Lecturer Ay - Early Childhood Studies

The Department of Early Childhood Studies at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona invites applications for Part-Time Lecturer positions in the department of Early Childhood Studies.

Pomona is one of three polytechnic universities in the 22-campus California State University system and among 12 such institutions nationwide. Since its founding in 1938, Cal Poly Pomona students participate in an integrative experiential learning education that is inclusive, relevant, and values diverse perspectives and experiences. With a variety of degree programs in the arts, humanities, sciences, engineering, and professional disciplines, the university is well known for its learn-by-doing approach and Teacher Scholar Model.

The university is noted for its scenic and historic 1,400-acre campus, which was once the winter ranch of cereal magnate W.K. Kellogg. We acknowledge that Cal Poly Pomona resides on the territorial and homelands of the Tongva and Tataavium people who are the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar. The university's nearly 30,000 students are taught and mentored by the campus's more than 1,400 faculty as part of 54 baccalaureate and 29 master's degree programs, 11 credential and certificate programs, and a doctorate in educational leadership.

The College of Education and Integrative Studies is a learning community focused on meeting the present and future needs of students in its communities. The college educates students to become highly qualified and significant leaders in society. It is committed to the principles of diversity, ethics and social justice, and life-long learning. Central to the college's mission is innovation and integrative thinking, reflective practice, collaborative action, and learning by doing.

The college's four departments include two undergraduate degrees and academic programs—Liberal Studies and Early Childhood Studies—and two graduate departments—Education and Educational Leadership. There are 1,376 students enrolled and 41 faculty in the college.

Our mission is to prepare students to become dynamic, innovative, skilled, and socially responsible leaders in a changing local and global society. As a learning community of students, scholars, and professionals, we are dedicated to the advancement and development of knowledges, interdisciplinary and student-centered education, equity, and community engagement.

CEIS will be an interdisciplinary and equitable space where students, faculty, and staff across departments co-create intellectual, active, and just learning communities, environments, projects, and initiatives.

We cultivate a supportive and empathetic learning community that places student success and wellbeing at the center of what we do. Our work is guided by values and practices of social justice, including:

• Enacting purposeful equity, ethics, and sustainability;
• Challenging interlocking forms of oppression through intersectional anti-racist education and practices;
• Engaging local and global communities, ecologies, and natural environments;
• Implementing creative, interdisciplinary, and integrative approaches in a polytechnic context;
• Fostering collaboration, communication, and learner-centered pedagogies;
• Preparing for academics, career, and life-long learning.

The Early Childhood Studies (ECS) program is distinctive because the major emphasizes the first eight years of life and the significance of this period in children's overall development. While at Cal Poly Pomona, Early Childhood Studies students learn processes important for early childhood development and identify implications of theory in the examination and application of principles and practices within diverse family, program, and community contexts.

The curriculum in Early Childhood Studies (ECS) offers 3 teaching options that advocate for understanding diversity and inclusivity from a multilingual lens. The faculty use service learning, practicum (student teaching), face-to-face, hybrid, and online pedagogy in order to provide the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to work with children and families during the most critical developmental time in a…