Teacher Education Adjunct Faculty - Fall ; Hilltop Campus

Overview

Job Title: Teacher Education Adjunct Faculty - Fall 2025 (Hilltop Campus)

Job Summary:

Our Mission:
The University of San Francisco (USF) is a private, urban university with a global perspective that educates leaders who will fashion a more humane and just world. USF offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional students the knowledge, skills, and values needed to be leaders in their field, life-long learners, and in service to others. USF draws on the cultural, intellectual, and economic resources of the San Francisco Bay Area and its location on the Pacific Rim to enrich its educational programs.

The USF Teacher Education program (TED) prepares strong, dedicated, and creative teachers for today’s increasingly diverse schools. The teachers we graduate are reflective practitioners who foster intellectual growth, holistic development, and multicultural democratic community in their classrooms and schools. They strive to provide their students – especially those most vulnerable to systemic injustices – an equitable, responsive, and empowering education. Our graduates develop a vision informed by principles and theories of education, and an array of pedagogical and conceptual tools grounded in classroom practice.

At the same time, they understand the challenges and complexities of teaching, especially within urban contexts.

The Teacher Education Department in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco is seeking adjunct instructors to teach the courses listed below. Positions are available fall 2025. Below are descriptions of the courses that need staffing.

• TEC 618:
  Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice

  Course Description

  What does it mean to teach for diversity and social justice? This course analyzes the forces that contribute to educational injustices and how we as teachers can work against these injustices through culturally responsive teaching, transformative curriculum, and other anti-oppression practices. The key purpose is for teachers to develop as change agents and advocates for historically marginalized students.

  3.000 Credit hours

  Course Schedule

  Class meets on Tuesdays from 4:45-7:15 pm. Dates:
  August 18-December 2.

  Credits/Compensation

  Compensation is $2,256 per credit.

  Format

  This course will be offered as a Hybrid learning format for Fall 2025 (meeting 12 times in person and 3 times remotely).

• TEC 643:
  Education of Exceptional Children

  Course Description

  Introduction to special education that recognizes the differences and the similarities of the needs of exceptional and non-exceptional pupils, utilizes nondiscriminatory assessment of such needs, and applies diagnostic information toward modification of school curricula and instructional methods and materials, including study of assistive and adaptive technologies for the classroom.

  3.000 Credit hours

  Course Schedule

  Class meets on Wednesdays from 4:45-7:15 pm. Dates:
  August 18-December 2.

  Credits/Compensation

  Compensation is $2,256 per credit.

  Format

  This course will be offered as a Hybrid learning format for Fall 2025 (meeting 12 times in person and 3 times remotely).

• Qualifications include an earned masters of education, K-12 teaching experience, and relevant expertise.

Please submit (a) cover letter stating qualifications and identify which course/courses you are interested in teaching, (b) resume or curriculum vitae and, (c) three recommendation letters concerning your teaching qualifications for this application.
Please be sure to upload your own letters of recommendation within this application in the Questionnaire section. If the department is interested in your application for a specific course, you will be contacted. Please contact Melissa Duphily (mduphily) for any questions regarding a teaching position.

The University of San Francisco is an equal opportunity institution of higher education. The University does not discriminate in employment, educational services and academic programs on the basis of an individual’s race, color, religion, religious creed, ancestry, national origin, age (except minors), sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, medical condition (cancer-related and genetic-related) and disability, and the other bases prohibited by law.

The University reasonably accommodates qualified individuals with disabilities under the law.

Part time

Salary

$2,256 per credit