Assistant Professor of Practice in Personalized and Blended Learning

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University invites applications from innovative and thoughtful colleagues to join our program at the rank of an Assistant Professor of Practice in Personalized and Blended Learning (PL/BL). This non tenure-track position with a nine-month academic year appointment will start June 2, 2021.

Texas Tech University is the flagship of the Texas Tech University System and a Carnegie Tier One research university. The current enrollment is nearly 40,000 students. As a federally designated Hispanic Serving Institution, Texas Tech University seeks to foster an environment that promotes inclusive access and attracts committed and high-achieving students. We are dedicated to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty to educate and empower our diverse student body while also serving an extremely vast and diverse state.

Lubbock, Texas (Pop. 250,000) is an outstanding place to live and work. This growing city, with its college-town feel, has a remarkable history and a vital future. Lubbock is the commercial, agricultural, medical, financial and cultural hub of the South Plains. The City of Lubbock and Texas Tech enjoy an exceptionally cooperative and supportive relationship extending from community health to cotton crop production, from wind energy to education. Lubbock is nationally recognized as an outstanding place to raise a family, and offers ease of access for commuting across town, or travel across the nation. Depending on one’s personal preferences, there are plenty of recreational opportunities and a wide variety of restaurants and shopping, community events and cultural activities including breweries and wine bars, a vibrant live-music scene along with more traditional performing arts. 

The Texas Tech University College of Education, with over 2,000 students, offers a nationally recognized undergraduate teacher preparation program, and 21 graduate degrees that prepare students for professional or academic positions in education.  The department and college place a focus on strategic outreach and engaged scholarship. We collaborate with local, regional, state, national and global partners to address complex problems facing individuals and communities. In recognition of its extraordinary community outreach efforts, the college received a 2018 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

The Department of Curriculum and Instruction at Texas Tech University offers a competitive graduate program that is growing both nationally and internationally. We are a diverse community of scholars, researchers, and educators with a commitment to excellence in education, serving EC-12 public schools.

We are seeking highly qualified applicants who have expertise in personalized and blended learning. The successful candidate will hold teaching and professional experiences in PL/BL pedagogies. Experiences in designing and developing curriculum, as well as facilitating technology-rich instruction or instructional coaching will be considered a plus. We're especially interested in candidates with experiences teaching graduate students online and leading synchronous sessions. The successful candidate will also work closely with online masters students to prepare them to be competitive in their aspiring professional fields. The individual hired in this position is expected to contribute to the department’s goals of continued excellence and innovation in teaching, advising, scholarship, outreach, and service. The salary is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Responsibilities of the successful candidate:

• Teaching PL/BL courses offered online, with bi-weekly synchronous components using the TTU Blackboard Learning Management System
• Advising master’s students
• Collaborating and cooperating with colleagues to fulfill the needs of the track’s, department’s and college’s strategic goals
• Establishing and maintaining a rigorous practitioner-based research agenda
• Actively participating in department, college, and university committees
• Participating in syllabi development with stakeholders as a part of community-engaged teaching
• Maintaining relationships and partnerships with school districts, state agencies and non-profits

Required Qualifications:

• Earned doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction, or a closely related field, by May 31, 2021
• A minimum of 3 years of K-12 teaching experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• K-12 teaching experience in BL/PL context
• Leadership in curriculum development and instructional coaching
• University teaching experience at the graduate level
• Online teaching experience
• Evidence of a rigorous practitioner-based research agenda
• Evidence of excellence in teaching
• Commitment to advising masters students
• Ability to contribute to a positive work environment in the department, college, and university

Interested candidates should submit application materials online at the TTU Personnel Employment website: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25898&siteid=5637#jobDetails=545386_5637

Please submit a letter of application, curriculum vitae, unofficial graduate transcripts, and a list of

three references with complete address, phone number, and email address, by January 15th, 2021

More details can be found about TTU - http://www.ttu.edu/ or the College of Education, http://www.depts.ttu.edu/education/  

For more information about the search, contact the faculty search committee chair, Dr. Rebecca Hite at Rebecca.hite@ttu.edu

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 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 minorities, women, veterans, persons with disability and dual/career couples. Texas Tech University recently surpassed the Hispanic student population threshold necessary for designation as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).