Teacher Ed Adjunct Faculty

Job Title

Teacher Ed Adjunct Faculty

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 from the cultural, intellectual, and economic resources of the San Francisco Bay Area and its location on the Pacific Rim to enrich its educational programs.

Teacher Education Department Mission: USF Teacher Education Department (TED) is committed to preparing strong, pedagogically sound and innovative teachers for today’s increasingly diverse society. We want the teachers we cultivate to be reflective practitioners who foster intellectual growth, holistic development, and a multicultural democratic community in their classrooms and schools. We want these teachers and educational partners to provide their students – especially those most vulnerable to systemic injustices – an equitable, responsive, and empowering education.

Our program aspires to actualize principles of social justice and the inherent dignity of all people in the struggle against multiple forms of oppression. These principles include humanizing relationships, democratic participation, critical inquiry, and collective action for the common good. We hope our graduates leave our department with a deepened social consciousness and proclivity towards continual development that will shape their work.

We believe that education should be a joyous and creative endeavor and that its primary purpose should be to shape a more just, humane, and healthy world.

Hiring for the Teacher Ed Branch Campus
- East Bay at Merritt College in Oakland, CA

The Teacher Education Department in the School of Education at the University of San Francisco is seeking adjunct instructors to teach the course listed below. Adjunct instructors must be committed to and have demonstrated within their work principles outlined in the TED Mission Statement. Positions are available Fall 2024, Spring 2025 and Summer 2025. We encourage qualified candidates to apply as soon as possible.

Below are descriptions of the course that need staffing.

• TEC 610 - Learning and Teaching:
  Explores key elements of learning and teaching in socio-culturally diverse classrooms. Provides opportunities for candidates to practice curriculum design, assessment, approaches to discussion, collaborative learning, and problem-solving related to classroom dynamics. Draws connections between learning theories and teaching practices. Topics include: purposes of schooling; addressing diverse needs, backgrounds, and strengths of students; engaging students in meaningful learning experiences; and developing as a reflective practitioner.
  
  Requires additional fieldwork such as classroom observations at a school site. 3.000 Credit hours
• TEC 618 - Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice:
  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
• TEC 643 - Education of Exceptional Children:
  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
• TEC 621 - Multiple Subject Curriculum and Instruction:
  Early Literacy:
  Focuses on theoretical principles, relevant curriculum, and pedagogical strategies necessary for developing and maintaining a balanced…