Metro New York & Southern Connecticut

Position Vacancy—Adjunct Instructor for EDUC 513: Social Studies Curriculum Development for Inclusive and Special Education Settings (Grades 1 – 6)

Bank Street College, Graduate School of Education, is looking for an adjunct instructor for the following course to be taught Fall, 2023, on campus

Social Studies Curriculum Development for Inclusive and Special Education Settings (Grades 1 – 6), 3 credits

Dates: September 5-December 19, 2023

This course is tentatively scheduled to run Thursdays 7-9pm, on campus. Day and time is subject to change.

Course Description

This course provides the opportunity for participants to analyze and develop integrated curricula in social studies using a sociopolitical lens. Participants integrate knowledge from the five disciplines of social studies: history, sociology, political science, geography and economics into the design of a constructivist, inquiry-based social studies curriculum. The course explores ways children come to learn and care about themselves and others through the social studies. There is an emphasis on differentiating curriculum, including attention to diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and variations in development.

Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in education or related field required. Doctorate preferred.
• 5 or more years of teaching experience teaching children in grades 1-6 from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
• Experience designing social studies curriculum for students with and without disabilities.
• Experience teaching at the graduate level, preferred.
• COVID vaccination and boosters required.

Compensation:

• $4470

About Bank Street College of Education

The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the educational process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

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