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Current Faculty/Management Searches in the Graduate School of Education
- POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR (Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS))
- PROFESSOR (Open rank: tenure-track or tenure level within 12 years of doctorate): Leadership For Instructional Improvement
- PROFESSOR (Open rank: tenure-track or tenure level within 12 years of doctorate): Critical Social Analysis of Race and Education
- ASST. PROFESSOR (tenure-track): Technology and Education
Position Announcement The TELS project seeks a Postdoctoral Scholar to participate in a multidisciplinary collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation to explore Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science and related issues. The research program involves creating customizable technology-enhanced curriculum materials, knowledge integration assessments, and targeted professional development, and is researching leverage points for technology in science learning in middle schools.
POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLAR
Technology-Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS)He/she will work with leaders in education, technology, and the science disciplines and will contribute to the research program and conduct their own research in a supportive, exciting environment with input from leaders at Berkeley (Marcia C. Linn and Hee Sun Lee), Concord Consortium (Robert Tinker and Paul Horwitz), University of Toronto (Jim Slotta), and ETS (Lydia Liu). The Scholar will learn about advances in technology, learning sciences, instruction and assessment and will jointly contribute to research that identifies leverage points for technology, explores the role of modeling, simulation, and real time data collection, and investigates longitudinal impacts of these experiences. The work will contribute to a theory of instruction.
The Postdoctoral Scholar will join a multidisciplinary team of researchers who are creating new technologies, developing innovative instructional materials, designing professional development programs, exploring partnerships with educational organizations including school districts, designing assessments, and researching their impacts. The group builds on previously successful uses of technology such as the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE),Technology Enhanced Learning in Science (TELS) and Pedagogica. The work both draws on current research on teaching and learning and contributes to a framework to guide future designers.
QUALIFICATIONS
Candidates should have a background in mathematics, the natural sciences, engineering, or computer science and a Ph. D. in education, psychology, mathematics, natural science, engineering, computer science, or a related discipline. Ideal candidates will have research experience in the science disciplines, technology-enhanced learning environments, science teaching, and/or assessment of science learning in complex settings. Applicants should demonstrate ability to work on a team, interest in working in partnerships to develop science curriculum, and ability to succeed in a school setting. Experience in working with teachers in a school or professional development setting is a plus.Applicants should be available to start in Fall 2008. The position, which has an annual salary of $49,452, is for one year with possible renewal for a second year.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
The program's special focus is research investigating how instructional technology can benefit teaching and learning in science. It seeks to increase the numbers and diversity of teachers who are using innovative, proven, technology-enhanced science curricula to impart key scientific concepts and methods to their students.Research.
Research conducted is large-scale, collaborative, applied research to identify promising technology-enhanced, standards-based curricular materials and design principles that can guide future developers. Science education needs valid and appropriate assessments that can promote coherent understanding. Policy makers and school administrators need rigorous data about the content and efficacy of new approaches to science education. The program's research addresses this challenge by working in multiple schools to support the development of the instructional technology, the assessment of student progress, and the support of teachers.Research projects use powerful software tools and simulations embedded in online curriculum-based activities that are designed to teach central topics in introductory science through student inquiry and collaboration. The investigators will develop and test sequences of instruction designed to give students effective tools for thinking about science not just in the classroom but throughout their life. In conjunction with multiple school districts, investigators will use sophisticated online assessment strategies to test curricula in numerous schools that serve diverse student populations. These studies will look at the development of coherent understanding over several years of study.
Graduate Education.
The postdoctoral scholar will participate in supervising and supporting graduate students who will become the teachers, designers, researchers and educational policy makers of tomorrow. The research program enables doctoral students and master's degree candidates to explore whether interactive software tools and models embedded in high quality instructional units can be used effectively to improve pre-college science education.Professional Development.
Working with multiple schools, the researchers are providing professional development to teachers by engaging them in customizing curricular materials that incorporate innovative instructional technology. We are studying the role of school-based and university-based professional development.Communicating Results.
The research partners meet annually to share expertise, coordinate research, and set priorities. Participants collaborate extensively with other groups, recruit affiliates, share research techniques, and make all research, software, curricula, and teacher professional development materials widely available.TO APPLY
Send CV, statement of purpose, one or more academic papers, and a list of people we might contact for letters of recommendation, postdated by August 6, 2008, to:e-mail: mclinn@berkeley.edu,
Or mail materials to:
Marcia C. Linn
University of California at Berkeley
Graduate School of Education,
4611 Tolman Hall
Berkeley, California 94720-1670
The University of California is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer.
Position Announcement
LEADERSHIP FOR INSTRUCTIONAL IMPROVEMENT The Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a position in the area of leadership for instructional improvement. The professorial rank is open, but consideration will be given only to candidates who have received their doctoral degree within the last 12 years. The appointment should begin with the academic year 2008-09.
The person appointed to this position will be expected to contribute broadly to our doctoral research program, but will also contribute to two programs with the mission of preparing leaders for California's public schools, including principals, district officials, superintendents, or leaders in other educational organizations. The two recently developed leadership programs in the GSE are the Principal Leadership Institute, an M.A. program to prepare school-level leaders, and the Ed.D. program to prepare leaders for school districts and other multi-school organizations. These programs focus on urban schools, address diversity and equity, and prepare individuals to be instructional leaders. The successful candidate will be expected to provide expertise in methods of improving instruction at the school, multi-school, and district level, in settings with large numbers of economically disadvantaged students who are also students of color and from immigrant and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Such methods of instructional improvement might entail curricular and professional development, interventions in "low-performing" schools, and systemic alignments, but also innovative pedagogical approaches to students' academic engagement, such as culturally relevant pedagogy. Thus, we are seeking an individual whose scholarly work combines an understanding of curriculum and instruction with knowledge of how schools and districts function as organizations.
The successful candidate will be expected to (1) carry out a research program in her or his area of interest; (2) participate in the planning and direction of the professional programs; (3) teach courses in these programs as well as in Ph.D. programs; (4) direct M.A., Ed.D, and Ph.D. projects and dissertations; and (5) engage in public service related to their area of scholarship. Given that the students in our professional programs have many competing demands as full-time practitioners, the programs provide a full complement of courses during the summer, in the evenings, and on some weekends during the academic year.
Applications should include a statement of interests and qualifications; a curriculum vitae; reprints of recent publications; and the names and addresses of three references. Go to the "Leadership" Registration page to self-register and upload PDF's of required documents. Also obtain there the URL your references can use to upload their letters of recommendation; please refer them to the University's statement on confidentiality, found at apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html. Alternately, hard copy applications may be mailed to: Leadership for Instructional Improvement Search Committee, Graduate School of Education, c/o Ms. Helen Clifton, 1501 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1670. Electronic applications must be transmitted by January 4, 2008; hardcopy applications must be postmarked by January 4, 2008.
Qualified women and members of underrepresented minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer
Position Announcement
CRITICAL SOCIAL ANALYSIS OF RACE AND EDUCATION The Graduate School of Education (GSE) at the University of California, Berkeley invites applications for a position in the area of Critical Social Analysis of Race and Education. The professorial rank is open, but consideration will be given only to candidates who have received their doctoral degree within the last 12 years. The appointment should begin with the academic year 2008-09.
We seek a scholar who brings critical theories and analyses of race to bear on issues in education. Whether trained in education or another field, candidates should combine a grounding in social, cultural, or political theory with a research focus on learning, schooling, or other sites of education. The successful candidate will be expected to advise graduate students in the Social and Cultural Studies emphasis housed within the Language & Literacy, Society & Culture area of the GSE, and should be able to teach courses in social theory. In addition, the new faculty member will be expected to contribute to the school's undergraduate or professional offerings.
Applications should include a statement of interests and qualifications; a curriculum vitae; up to three samples of scholarly writings; and the names and addresses of three references. Online applications are strongly preferred. Please visit http://gse.berkeley.edu/Admin/newfac.html (this web page). Go to the "CSARE" Registration page to self-register and upload PDF's of required documents. Also obtain there the URL your references can use to upload their letters of recommendation; please refer them to the University's statement on confidentiality, found at apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html. Alternately, hard copy applications may be mailed to: CSARE Search, Office of the Dean, Attention: Ms. Helen Clifton, Graduate School of Education, 1501 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1670. Electronic applications must be transmitted by January 4, 2008; hardcopy applications must be postmarked by January 4, 2008.
Women and members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply. The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.
Position Announcement
TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION The Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, seeks applicants for a tenure-track (assistant professor level) position in technology and education, to begin circa July 2008. The successful candidate will be capable of creating new technological possibilities for educational purposes and contributing to the School's programmatic efforts in technology design and use. He or she will join faculty in the program in Education in Mathematics, Science, and Technology (EMST) who merge cognitive, developmental, and social perspectives in studying cognition and learning in mathematics and science, and a graduate program that is home to two NSF-funded national Centers (Diversity in Mathematics Education and Technology Enhanced Learning in Science) as well as a wide range of projects in mathematics and science learning. The successful candidate will have a deep view of the potential and the limitations of the uses of technology or digital media and how they can foster curriculum and learning goals, and the ability to share that understanding with those interested in basic research, policy, and teacher education. Examples of possible research specializations are: technology and diversity; computational and digital literacies and their impact on individuals and communities; new media studies; internet-based education; computer-mediated collaborative learning; the design of subject-specific learning environments; user-interface design; and intelligent systems. Duties will include research on technology and education, and teaching in the School's graduate program and either undergraduate or teacher preparation programs. Applicants should have a doctoral degree in a relevant field such as STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education, computer science, the cognitive, social, or learning sciences, and demonstrated excellence in research and teaching.
Applications should include a curriculum vitae; a statement of interests and qualifications; reprints of not more than three recent publications; and the names and addresses of three references. Online applications are strongly preferred. Please visit http://gse.berkeley.edu/Admin/newfac.html (this web page). Go to the "Technology & Education" Registration page to self-register and upload PDF's of required documents. Also obtain there the URL your references can use to upload their letters of recommendation; please refer them to the University's statement on confidentiality, found at apo.chance.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html. Alternately, hard copy applications may be mailed to: Technology and Education Search Committee, Graduate School of Education, c/o Ms. Helen Clifton, 1501 Tolman Hall, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720-1670. Electronic applications must be transmitted by January 4, 2008; hardcopy applications must be postmarked by January 4, 2008.
Qualified women and members of underrepresented minority groups are strongly encouraged to apply. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer.
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