Assistant / Associate / Professor of Elementary Education
Ball State University · Muncie, IN · 1 mo ago
Education$70k–$95k/yrFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Key info:
- Position Title: Assistant / Associate / Professor of Elementary Education (but we don't repeat as heading)
- Compensation: $70,000 - $95,000 (with specifics: Assistant Professor $70k-$75k; Associate/Professor $75k-$95k)
- Department: Elementary Education
- Start Date: 08/02/2027
- About This Opportunity: description.
- Duties And Responsibilities: list.
- Minimum Qualifications: list.
- Preferred Qualifications: list.
- Required License/Certifications: none? Actually there is a line "Required License/Certifications" but no content after? It just says "How to apply:" after that. So we can ignore because no content.
- How to apply: instructions, contact, etc. We need to remove application instructions per instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove the "How to apply:" section, contact info, upload instructions, etc.
- What We Offer: benefits description: 12 paid sick days, 10 holidays, paid parental leave (6 weeks), affordable health and dental insurance, long-term disability and life insurance, retirement benefits, tuition coverage (90% of child's undergraduate tuition), total compensation calculator.
We need to include sections only if there is real specific content.
Potential sections:
- About the role (or About This Opportunity) -> we can use
About the role
with prose.
- Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities) -> Responsibilities
with - list.
- Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) ->
Requirements
with - list.
- Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications) ->
Qualifications
with - list.
- Benefits (What We Offer) ->
Benefits
with - list.
- Pay (Compensation) ->
Pay
with prose (maybe include both ranges). Since we have specific salary ranges, we can include Pay section.
Schedule: Not mentioned besides start date. Could we include Schedule? The posting includes start date but not schedule details (e.g., full-time, academic year). It says full-time, tenure-line faculty position. Could we treat that as schedule? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state full-time, but not schedule like "Monday-Friday". Might be okay to include Schedule with "Full-time, tenure-line position starting August 2, 2027." However, they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Might combine schedule into About or Pay? But we have separate Pay section for compensation. Could we include Schedule as a short paragraph? It's not boilerplate; it's specific. But we need to decide if we should create a Schedule section. The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state full-time and start date, which is schedule-related. So we could include Schedule section with that info.
But we need to avoid filler like "not specified". We have specifics.
Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule.
We need to ensure we don't duplicate content. Also we need to remove duplicated lines like salary ranges repeated twice. We'll include once.
We need to preserve all substantive information: that includes department, start date, about opportunity, duties, minimum qualifications, preferred qualifications, benefits, compensation ranges, full-time tenure-line, start date.
We need to format lists appropriately.
Let's extract content.
About This Opportunity paragraph:
"Ball State University’s Department of Elementary Education invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank beginning August 2027. While candidates at all ranks will be considered, we are particularly interested in applicants whose experiences and accomplishments support appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level. Salary range for Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000 Salary range for Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000 We seek a collaborative teacher-scholar committed to preparing highly effective elementary educators and advancing knowledge in teaching and learning. The successful candidate will contribute to undergraduate and graduate programs in elementary education, with particular emphasis on literacy, inclusive teaching practices, and curriculum and instruction. We are especially interested in candidates whose teaching, scholarship, and professional engagement reflect current research and evidence-based practices in elementary education and who can contribute leadership to the department’s teaching, research, partnerships, and program development. This position offers opportunities to teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, supervise candidates in field-based settings, maintain a productive program of research and scholarship, collaborate with faculty and school/community partners, and contribute to the ongoing development of innovative educator preparation programs. Candidates at the Associate or Full Professor level should demonstrate a sustained record of scholarly productivity and professional contributions appropriate to rank. Employer will consider sponsorship."
We need to avoid duplication of salary ranges; we will put them in Pay section. So in About we can omit the salary lines, but we need to preserve all substantive information. If we remove salary lines from About, we are still preserving them in Pay section, so overall we keep the info. That's acceptable.
Thus About section prose: combine the rest.
Now Responsibilities list:
From "Duties And Responsibilities What you'll do and what you will bring:" then list:
- Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in elementary education, with particular emphasis on literacy, inclusive teaching practices, and curriculum and instruction;
- supervise practicum and other field-based experiences;
- establish and maintain an active program of research and scholarly publication;
- pursue opportunities for external funding as appropriate;
- engage in partnerships with schools, families, communities, and other educational organizations;
- advise and mentor graduate students, including doctoral students;
- collaborate with faculty on program development and improvement;
- provide leadership appropriate to experience and rank;
- and provide professional university, college, and departmental service.
We need to make each as - .
Now Minimum Qualifications:
- Earned doctorate in Elementary Education, Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction, or closely related field from an accredited institution by the date of appointment.
- At least three years (6 academic semesters/24 months) of teaching experience in an elementary (K-6) setting
- Demonstrated record of scholarly productivity, as evidenced by refereed presentations at regional, national, or international conferences and/or scholarly publications such as refereed journal articles, book chapters, or books.
- For appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, a record of teaching, scholarship, and service commensurate with expectations for the respective rank.
Now Preferred Qualifications:
- University-level teaching experience (at least one academic semester/3 months).
- Expertise literacy instruction and knowledge of current research and evidence-based approaches to literacy teaching, including developments associated with the Science of Reading.
- Knowledge of, and experience with, using current approaches to inclusive teaching, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies, and/or equitable educational practice while teaching learners with a wide range of strengths, needs, experiences, and backgrounds
- Experience supervising preservice teachers or other educator candidates in field-based settings.
- Demonstrated commitment to and experience with partnerships involving schools, families, communities, and/or community agencies.
- Record of seeking and/or obtaining external grant funding.
- Experience effectively integrating educational technologies into teaching, including online or technology-enhanced instruction.
- Evidence of effective collaboration with colleagues and other educational partners.
- For candidates at the Associate or Full Professor level, evidence of leadership in one or more areas such as program development, curriculum innovation, graduate education, research initiatives, externally funded projects, professional organizations, or school and community partnerships.
- Experience mentoring graduate students, doctoral students, and/or early-career faculty
- A sustained record of scholarly productivity and professional engagement appropriate to rank.
Now Benefits:
From "What We Offer" paragraph:
- 12 paid sick days and 10 holidays a year.
- paid parental leave (6 weeks)
- affordable health and dental insurance
- robust long-term disability and life insurance plans
- range of retirement benefits to provide financial security to you and your family.
- When you work for us, you are family. And to show our support of your family, we will cover 90 percent of your child's (or children's) undergraduate college tuition at Ball State. This offer is good from the very first day you start.
- Also mention total compensation calculator (but that's more of a resource; we could include as a bullet: "Access to a Total Compensation Calculator spreadsheet to estimate the value of core benefits." Might be considered substantive.
We should keep the description but maybe as prose? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Benefits is a list, so we can make
- .
Now Pay section: include salary ranges.
We need to include both ranges: Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000; Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000. Also note overall compensation $70,000 - $95,000.
We can phrase as: "Salary range for Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000; Salary range for Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000."
Now Schedule section: include full-time, tenure-line, start date August 2, 2027.
We could phrase: "Full-time, tenure-line position with a start date of August 2, 2027."
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "How to apply", contact info, etc.
Also need to remove duplicated lines: we already removed duplicate salary lines from About.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ...
...
Requirements
- ...
...
Qualifications
- ...
...
Benefits
- ...
...
Pay
...
Schedule
...
Make sure no extra whitespace issues.
Now craft the prose for About.
Combine sentences:
"Ball State University’s Department of Elementary Education invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank beginning August 2027. While candidates at all ranks will be considered, we are particularly interested in applicants whose experiences and accomplishments support appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level. We seek a collaborative teacher-scholar committed to preparing highly effective elementary educators and advancing knowledge in
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text (e.g., "commensurate with experience", "not specified", "N/A", "varies", "TBD") and never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Key info: - Position Title: Assistant / Associate / Professor of Elementary Education (but we don't repeat as heading) - Compensation: $70,000 - $95,000 (with specifics: Assistant Professor $70k-$75k; Associate/Professor $75k-$95k) - Department: Elementary Education - Start Date: 08/02/2027 - About This Opportunity: description. - Duties And Responsibilities: list. - Minimum Qualifications: list. - Preferred Qualifications: list. - Required License/Certifications: none? Actually there is a line "Required License/Certifications" but no content after? It just says "How to apply:" after that. So we can ignore because no content. - How to apply: instructions, contact, etc. We need to remove application instructions per instruction: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions." So we should remove the "How to apply:" section, contact info, upload instructions, etc. - What We Offer: benefits description: 12 paid sick days, 10 holidays, paid parental leave (6 weeks), affordable health and dental insurance, long-term disability and life insurance, retirement benefits, tuition coverage (90% of child's undergraduate tuition), total compensation calculator. We need to include sections only if there is real specific content. Potential sections: - About the role (or About This Opportunity) -> we can use
About the role
with prose. - Responsibilities (Duties And Responsibilities) ->Responsibilities
with- list.
- Requirements (Minimum Qualifications) ->
Requirements
with- list.
- Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications) ->
Qualifications
with- list.
- Benefits (What We Offer) ->
Benefits
with- list.
- Pay (Compensation) ->
Pay
with prose (maybe include both ranges). Since we have specific salary ranges, we can include Pay section. Schedule: Not mentioned besides start date. Could we include Schedule? The posting includes start date but not schedule details (e.g., full-time, academic year). It says full-time, tenure-line faculty position. Could we treat that as schedule? The instruction: never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless posting actually states them. It does state full-time, but not schedule like "Monday-Friday". Might be okay to include Schedule with "Full-time, tenure-line position starting August 2, 2027." However, they said "Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones." Might combine schedule into About or Pay? But we have separate Pay section for compensation. Could we include Schedule as a short paragraph? It's not boilerplate; it's specific. But we need to decide if we should create a Schedule section. The instruction: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It does state full-time and start date, which is schedule-related. So we could include Schedule section with that info. But we need to avoid filler like "not specified". We have specifics. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We need to ensure we don't duplicate content. Also we need to remove duplicated lines like salary ranges repeated twice. We'll include once. We need to preserve all substantive information: that includes department, start date, about opportunity, duties, minimum qualifications, preferred qualifications, benefits, compensation ranges, full-time tenure-line, start date. We need to format lists appropriately. Let's extract content. About This Opportunity paragraph: "Ball State University’s Department of Elementary Education invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank beginning August 2027. While candidates at all ranks will be considered, we are particularly interested in applicants whose experiences and accomplishments support appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level. Salary range for Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000 Salary range for Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000 We seek a collaborative teacher-scholar committed to preparing highly effective elementary educators and advancing knowledge in teaching and learning. The successful candidate will contribute to undergraduate and graduate programs in elementary education, with particular emphasis on literacy, inclusive teaching practices, and curriculum and instruction. We are especially interested in candidates whose teaching, scholarship, and professional engagement reflect current research and evidence-based practices in elementary education and who can contribute leadership to the department’s teaching, research, partnerships, and program development. This position offers opportunities to teach and mentor undergraduate and graduate students, supervise candidates in field-based settings, maintain a productive program of research and scholarship, collaborate with faculty and school/community partners, and contribute to the ongoing development of innovative educator preparation programs. Candidates at the Associate or Full Professor level should demonstrate a sustained record of scholarly productivity and professional contributions appropriate to rank. Employer will consider sponsorship." We need to avoid duplication of salary ranges; we will put them in Pay section. So in About we can omit the salary lines, but we need to preserve all substantive information. If we remove salary lines from About, we are still preserving them in Pay section, so overall we keep the info. That's acceptable. Thus About section prose: combine the rest. Now Responsibilities list: From "Duties And Responsibilities What you'll do and what you will bring:" then list: - Teach undergraduate and graduate courses in elementary education, with particular emphasis on literacy, inclusive teaching practices, and curriculum and instruction; - supervise practicum and other field-based experiences; - establish and maintain an active program of research and scholarly publication; - pursue opportunities for external funding as appropriate; - engage in partnerships with schools, families, communities, and other educational organizations; - advise and mentor graduate students, including doctoral students; - collaborate with faculty on program development and improvement; - provide leadership appropriate to experience and rank; - and provide professional university, college, and departmental service. We need to make each as - .
Now Minimum Qualifications:
- Earned doctorate in Elementary Education, Literacy, Curriculum and Instruction, or closely related field from an accredited institution by the date of appointment.
- At least three years (6 academic semesters/24 months) of teaching experience in an elementary (K-6) setting
- Demonstrated record of scholarly productivity, as evidenced by refereed presentations at regional, national, or international conferences and/or scholarly publications such as refereed journal articles, book chapters, or books.
- For appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level, a record of teaching, scholarship, and service commensurate with expectations for the respective rank.
Now Preferred Qualifications:
- University-level teaching experience (at least one academic semester/3 months).
- Expertise literacy instruction and knowledge of current research and evidence-based approaches to literacy teaching, including developments associated with the Science of Reading.
- Knowledge of, and experience with, using current approaches to inclusive teaching, culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies, and/or equitable educational practice while teaching learners with a wide range of strengths, needs, experiences, and backgrounds
- Experience supervising preservice teachers or other educator candidates in field-based settings.
- Demonstrated commitment to and experience with partnerships involving schools, families, communities, and/or community agencies.
- Record of seeking and/or obtaining external grant funding.
- Experience effectively integrating educational technologies into teaching, including online or technology-enhanced instruction.
- Evidence of effective collaboration with colleagues and other educational partners.
- For candidates at the Associate or Full Professor level, evidence of leadership in one or more areas such as program development, curriculum innovation, graduate education, research initiatives, externally funded projects, professional organizations, or school and community partnerships.
- Experience mentoring graduate students, doctoral students, and/or early-career faculty
- A sustained record of scholarly productivity and professional engagement appropriate to rank.
Now Benefits:
From "What We Offer" paragraph:
- 12 paid sick days and 10 holidays a year.
- paid parental leave (6 weeks)
- affordable health and dental insurance
- robust long-term disability and life insurance plans
- range of retirement benefits to provide financial security to you and your family.
- When you work for us, you are family. And to show our support of your family, we will cover 90 percent of your child's (or children's) undergraduate college tuition at Ball State. This offer is good from the very first day you start.
- Also mention total compensation calculator (but that's more of a resource; we could include as a bullet: "Access to a Total Compensation Calculator spreadsheet to estimate the value of core benefits." Might be considered substantive.
We should keep the description but maybe as prose? The instruction: Use
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Benefits is a list, so we can make
- .
Now Pay section: include salary ranges.
We need to include both ranges: Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000; Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000. Also note overall compensation $70,000 - $95,000.
We can phrase as: "Salary range for Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000; Salary range for Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000."
Now Schedule section: include full-time, tenure-line, start date August 2, 2027.
We could phrase: "Full-time, tenure-line position with a start date of August 2, 2027."
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "How to apply", contact info, etc.
Also need to remove duplicated lines: we already removed duplicate salary lines from About.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
About the role
...
Responsibilities
- ... ...
Requirements
- ... ...
Qualifications
- ... ...
Benefits
- ... ...
Pay
...
Schedule
...
Make sure no extra whitespace issues. Now craft the prose for About. Combine sentences: "Ball State University’s Department of Elementary Education invites applications for a full-time, tenure-line faculty position at the Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor rank beginning August 2027. While candidates at all ranks will be considered, we are particularly interested in applicants whose experiences and accomplishments support appointment at the Associate or Full Professor level. We seek a collaborative teacher-scholar committed to preparing highly effective elementary educators and advancing knowledge in
- .
Now Pay section: include salary ranges.
We need to include both ranges: Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000; Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000. Also note overall compensation $70,000 - $95,000.
We can phrase as: "Salary range for Assistant Professor: $70,000 - $75,000; Salary range for Associate Professor or Professor: $75,000 - $95,000."
Now Schedule section: include full-time, tenure-line, start date August 2, 2027.
We could phrase: "Full-time, tenure-line position with a start date of August 2, 2027."
Now we need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "How to apply", contact info, etc.
Also need to remove duplicated lines: we already removed duplicate salary lines from About.
Now produce HTML fragment.
Structure:
- for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
- list.
- Pay (Compensation) ->
- list.
- Benefits (What We Offer) ->
- list.
- Qualifications (Preferred Qualifications) ->