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Assistant Professor of Blended and Personalized Learning
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Position Number: 3080610
Location: Lubbock, TX
Position Type: Education - Teacher Education - Elementary

Assistant Professor of Blended and Personalized Learning
Lubbock
28678BR
EDUC Curriculum and Instruction Gen

Position Description
Contributes to the university's mission through teaching, research and service, some variation by academic unit.

Major/Essential Functions
The Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University invites applications for an Assistant Professor position from innovative and thoughtful colleagues who specialize in Personalized and Blended Learning (PL/BL). This tenure-track position with a nine-month academic-year appointment will start Spring 2023 or Fall 2023.

Responsibilities of the successful candidate include but are not limited to:

Developing and teaching graduate-level courses in personalized and blended learning, and fostering graduate students' conceptual understanding and measurable skills - specifically in online and blended formats using the TTU Blackboard Learning Management System
Advising graduate certificate and masters degree seeking students as well as PhD students; including chairing and serving as a member of doctoral and masters committees
Maintaining and building relationships and partnerships with school districts, state agencies and non-profits
Developing and nurturing new partnerships in community-engaged scholarship (research, teaching, and/or service), and partnering with schools and/or professional organizations and agencies to ensure meaningful, collaborative research, teaching, and practice
Maintaining a line of research and publications that meaningfully contributes to the improvement of policy, program, and practice in fields of personalized learning, blended learning, teacher education, and community-engaged scholarship
Applying for, obtaining, and managing external grant funding to support research and community-engaged scholarship
Engaging in service duties, including program management, as well as committing to extra-curricular activities and service to community partners
Being a team player to contribute to the advancement of department, college, and university goals through various kinds of professional service

Candidates who have very strong records of scholarship supported by extramural funding and who have the proven capacity or clear potential to bring externally sponsored research to Texas Tech University are encouraged to apply. Service duties include program-building, as well as commitment to extra-curricular activities. Service to the department, college, university, and community is expected.

Required Qualifications
Earned doctorate or expected to earn by December 31, 2022 in Curriculum and Instruction, or a closely related field; a minimum of 3 years of K-12 classroom teaching experience or commensurate experience. Demonstrated record of effectiveness as a teacher, a record of peer reviewed publication and/or peer-reviewed creative activity which has contributed to the discipline or field of study, to the candidates intellectual and artistic development, and to the quality of the academic enterprise; a record of professional service appropriate to the discipline; promise of growth in teaching and research or artistic and creative activity.

Preferred Qualifications

Extensive K-12 teaching and/or coaching experience in BL/PL contexts
Experience with leading academic programs
Experience with building and maintaining partnerships
Experience in community-engaged scholarship (including rigorous research, teaching, grant writing, and/or service with community partners)
A record of engaged scholarship in school districts working with teachers and school administrators, such as: expertise in conducting research, especially application and intervention research that demonstrates a record of engaged scholarship in school districts working with teachers and school administrators
A track-record of online college-level teaching with a preference for graduate-level teaching
Experience working with diverse student populations, high-need student populations, and/or first-generation students is highly desirable
A strong record of or potential ability for advising/chairing doctoral level graduate students
Evidence of peer-refereed publications
Evidence of conference presentations
Evidence of obtaining external funding

To apply, visit workattexastech.com

As an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer, Texas Tech University is dedicated to the goal of building a culturally diverse faculty committed to teaching and working in a multicultural environment. We actively encourage applications from all those who can contribute, through their research, teaching, and/or service, to the diversity and excellence of the academic community at Texas Tech University. The university welcomes applications from minoritized applicants, women, protected veterans, persons with disabilities, and dual-career couples.