Lecturer, School of Teacher Education and Leadership (SOTEL)

School of Teacher Education and Leadership (SOTEL)

 

Faculty Employment Opportunity

Job# 550544

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

Department of School of Teacher Education and Leadership (SOTEL)
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

Sonoma State University’s College of Education, Counseling, and Ethnic Studies School of Teacher Education and Leadership offers a Master of Arts in Education degree with three distinct concentrations. Each of these concentrations reflects the philosophy, purpose, and goals of the School of Teacher Education and Leadership and the College of Education, Counseling, and Ethnic Studies. In our M.A. program, students critically examine educational theories and research through a variety of empirical and theoretical lenses with a focus on social justice to develop an informed educational vision and innovative pedagogy in a variety of educational settings. Students have the opportunity to collaborate with faculty and colleagues to examine and influence current educational practice through research, project development, and advocacy. We expect graduates to emerge from their work at Sonoma State University as leaders in their fields and agents of change.

Our courses are all offered in the evenings or on weekends to support working professionals in pursuing graduate study. We also run our classes in a hybrid format, meeting in-person on campus every other week. The degree requires 33 units of study that include a culminating project.

Throughout their years in an M.A. program, students are required each semester to meet with the graduate advisor in their area of concentration to plan collaboratively their progress in the M.A. program. Students may also confer with other graduate program faculty and the Graduate Studies Coordinator for advice and guidance in their coursework and professional development. Students must maintain a 3.00 grade point average in all coursework in the approved M.A. program.

 

Prospective applicants are encouraged to see the department’s web page at:

https://else.sonoma.edu/programs/ma-education

 

Duties of the Position

Instructor duties include:

- planning and teaching face-to-face or hybrid mode courses based on best practices and current theory and research in collaboration with tenure track faculty

- maintaining up-to-date course pages in Canvas (SSU’s Learning Management System), including readings and assignments; 

- responding to and addressing student concer