Sessional - Faculty (ECED 1300) - (02050.11069)
Sessional - Faculty (ECED 1300) - (02050.11069)
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Job Description
RESPONSIBILITIES
Thompson Rivers University is seeking one or two sessional faculty members who will teach ECED 1300: Practicum 2 Program Planning for Young Children.
Calendar description:
Building on the goals of ECED 1200: Practicum 1 students integrate their knowledge and skills while participating as a team member in childcare programs. Students take on additional responsibilities related to curriculum planning managing a program and responsibility for documentation with the mentorship of an early childhood educator and a practicum instructor. Students introduce a project to a group of young children observe and record childrens learning and make the learning visible to the children families educators and community.
Requirements
Required:
- A masters degree in ECE or relevant field is required. For example a relevant field could include Education Childhood Studies Child and Youth Care or Curriculum Studies for example.
- Evidence of a minimum of three years of knowledge and experience working with young children and families in a licensed early years program or primary classroom (birth to 8 years old).
- Demonstrated knowledge of early years curriculum including pedagogical narrations and working with current early learning frameworks to develop innovative programs for young children.
- Demonstrated expertise in the course topic areas.
- Excellent organizational interpersonal and communication skills
- Demonstrated experience in integrating Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods (TRC CA 63)
- Proven skills in building student capacity for intercultural understanding empathy and mutual respect (TRC CA 62)
- Teaching excellence including developing culturally appropriate curricula (TRC CA 10)
- Demonstrated commitment to diversity equity inclusion decolonization anti-racism and social justice in education.
Preferred:
- Three years of successful teaching experience in post-secondary institutions
- Active participation in ongoing research and / or community activities that contribute to and expand opportunities for students within the ECE program.
- Experience implementing curriculum and thinking with reconceptualist theories and curriculum
Employment Type
Contract
