Assistant Professor /Associate Professor - Clinical Practices and Special Education

About the role

The Department of Middle and High School Education (MHSE) in the School of Education at Lehman College, City University of New York (Bronx, New York City) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor of clinical practices in secondary teacher education and adolescent special education (and/or a related field).

Responsibilities

• Maintain a teaching load of 18 credits per 9-month academic year.
• Collaborate with the SOE Clinical Practice and Partnership Office and other units to participate in and to facilitate off-campus site visits to partner schools to monitor and support the successful implementation of clinically rich, school-based placements and to strengthen collaborative relationships with school partners.
• Maintain an active research agenda that includes professional scholarship, presentations, and grantsmanship.
• Engage in student recruitment, application review, and admissions processes.
• Support department and program operations and coordination to ensure effective student advisement, placement, and supervision.
• Collaborate with faculty and staff across departments, schools, and the university to advance interdisciplinary and sponsored program initiatives.
• Pursue external funding opportunities to support research, program innovation, and continuous improvement efforts for themselves as researchers, the Department, the SOE, Lehman College, and the field.
• Develop and maintain articulation agreements and educational partnerships with community colleges.
• Affirmatively recruit, retain, and promote a diverse faculty, staff, and student body.

Qualifications

• Ph.D. or Ed.D. degree in Special Education or a closely related field from an accredited university.
• Demonstrated expertise in mentoring pre- and in-service teacher development in clinical settings, educational assessment, experiential learning, and project-based learning.
• Demonstrated knowledge of best-practices in urban secondary teacher education pre-service and in-service clinical and teacher induction practices.
• A minimum of five years of teaching experience teaching in public, secondary schools with diverse populations, including multilingual students.
• Ongoing record of scholarship.
• Strong organizational and interpersonal skills and the ability to work collegially as a team member.

Preferred Requirements

• Demonstrated commitment to social justice, multi-modal learning, anti-racist pedagogies, multilingualism, and culturally and linguistically responsive and sustaining pedagogy.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Students With Disabilities 7-12 learning standards and curricula.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively teach adults in college level education programs in various modalities including in person, hybrid, hyflex, synchronous and asynchronous modalities.