Clinical Instructor - School & Community Experiences

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign • Urbana, IL

37d • Onsite

About The Position

The College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign seeks a part-time Clinical Instructor for the School and Community Experiences program. This role involves supervising teacher candidates during their field experiences. The instructor will be responsible for observing student teachers, providing support and guidance to cooperating teachers, and acting as a liaison between the placement school and the College of Education. This is a half-time, fifty-percent appointment, supervising up to ten clinicals per semester. The position requires regular meetings with School and Community Experiences (SCE) staff and frequent communication with methods instructors.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or higher in education; or extensive previous clinical supervision experience or specialized training in high-needs content areas
• Teacher licensure
• Minimum of three (3) years of classroom teaching

Nice To Haves

• Considerable classroom teaching experience preferred

Responsibilities

• Serving as liaison among student teachers, cooperating teachers, course instructors, and SCE staff.
• Observing student teachers during the field experience.
• Conducting goal-setting, pre-observation, and reflective post-observation conferences.
• Making a minimum of formal observations for each placement experience.
• Providing oral and written feedback to teacher candidates after each formal observation.
• Stimulating reflective thinking about teacher candidates’ objectives, goals, strategies, and progress.
• Working collaboratively with cooperating teachers and SCE staff to enact established remediation processes for teacher candidates who need assistance.
• Coordinating the evaluation of teacher candidates with the cooperating teachers and the teacher candidate.
• Facilitating seminars for teacher candidates in select geographic areas, as requested.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level