Lecturer, Department Early Childhood Studies

Department Of Early Childhood Studies

 

Faculty Employment Opportunity

Job#550025

Work type: Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty
Location: Sonoma
Categories: Temporary, Part Time, Instructional Faculty – Temporary Faculty
Unit 3 CFA – California Faculty Association

Department of Early Childhood Studies
Temporary Faculty Position (Lecturer)

 

Our Commitment

Sonoma State University is a federally-designated Hispanic Serving Institution, as such we are committed to achieving the goals of equal opportunity and we endeavor to employ faculty and staff reflecting the linguistic, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the region and state.

 Guided by our core values as a university: diversity, sustainability, community engagement, and adaptability, Sonoma State University (SSU) offers an education that fosters intellectual, social, and personal growth. SSU is a public liberal arts and sciences university. As the only member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges in the state of California, we are committed to preparing students for a life of active citizenship and public service. We have a vibrant campus life characterized by a lively co-curriculum that fosters broad-based intellectual and artistic opportunities in which the campus as a whole is actively engaged.

Sonoma State University is committed to creating a community in which bias and intolerance have no place.  It is our expectation that all students, faculty, and staff work together to honor this commitment and hold each other accountable to create an open and inclusive environment.

We are committed to facilitating spaces in which all can grow by building on our students’ assets as they explore new knowledge. These efforts include fostering creativity, critical thinking, collaboration, experimentation, empathy, and communication. The successful candidate will be one who can collaborate with faculty, staff, administration, and students to achieve these goals. We are especially interested in candidates committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Department

The Department of Early Childhood Studies is in the College of Education, Counseling, and Ethnic Studies. The department offers an undergraduate major in Early Childhood Studies, undergraduate minors in Early Childhood Studies and in Education, and a Master of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education. The mission of the department is to prepare knowledgeable and caring professionals who are committed to contributing to a just society through high-quality education and social services for all children and families. This commitment to social justice underpins our work and serves as the foundation of our curriculum.

Coursework in the undergraduate major and minor emphasizes socially and environmentally just practices, culturally responsive care and education, inclusive care and education, play as the cornerstone of healthy development, family engagement, assessment of child growth and learning, and leadership and advocacy. Students learn how to use theories and research from anthropology, child development, education, health, psychology, sociology, and multicultural studies to promote the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of diverse young children. Undergraduates who complete their BA degrees with an Early Childhood Studies major or minor typically go on to work in the field of early care and education, enroll in a Multiple Subject or Special Education Credential program, or pursue a graduate degree in education or social services.

The Master of Arts degree in Early Childhood Education is designed for students who wish to pursue advanced study in Child Development and Early Care and Education. With a growing emphasis at the federal and state levels on the importance of high-quality education during the preschool and primary years, the M.A. in Early Childhood Education prepares teachers to qualify for the California Child Development Permit at the Multi-site Director level. For candidates who hold a clear teaching credential, graduate credits may count as professional development units for salary advancement in your school district, for credential renewal, and for child development units to meet eligibility requirements for teaching in TK classrooms.

For more information about the Department of Early Childhood Studies, including courses offered, prospective applicants are encouraged to visit the department’s website https://ecs.sonoma.edu/early-childhood-studies

Prospective applicants are encouraged to see the department’s web pag