Position Title: Onground Adjunct Instructor for EDUC 502M: Human Development
Division: Graduate School of Education
Course: EDUC 502M: Human Development (3 credits)
Term: Summer Long, 2026, onground.
Dates: May 11, 2026 - July 27, 2026
- 6/22 (8:45-11:30 am)

- 6/23, 6/24, 6/25, 6/26, 6/29, 6/30, 7/1, 7/2 (8:00-11:30 am)

- This course is scheduled to run Monday to Friday, onground.

- Day and time are subject to change.


Course Description:
This course focuses on understanding, teaching, and meeting the needs of children and adolescents through emerging adulthood. The interactions between physical growth and social, emotional, and cognitive development will be an organizing focus in the course. Participants will analyze critically different developmental theories in relation to their own educational settings and experience. Participants explore the social and educational implications of a wide range of learning and behavioral disabilities in the context of family, school lives, community and society. Issues related to identity --self and other, dependence and autonomy, race, class, gender, language, religion, sexuality, power, ability, and disability - will be recurring themes. Participants will investigate topics and issues through a combination of readings, observations, interviews, case studies and
discussion.

Responsibilities:
- Develop and deliver course content and materials aligned with the program curriculum.

- Grade and evaluate student performance in a timely manner, providing constructive feedback.

- Maintain open communication with students, including scheduled office hours or availability for consultation.

- Submit final grades and required course documentation (e.g., attendance records) by institutional deadlines.

- Collaborate with program faculty on course coordination and attend relevant program meetings, if necessary.


Qualifications:
- Master's degree in development education or related field required. Doctorate preferred.

- 5 or more years of experience in the field working directly with

- children from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds in educational contexts.

- Experience teaching at the graduate level, preferred.

Compensation
$ 4,593

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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