Adjunct Faculty, NH Literacy Institute

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The NH Literacy Institutes are a series of graduate level summer courses in English, designed for practicing teachers to continue their learning and hone their craft through thoughtful, relevant coursework and collaboration. This position would require the professor to create coursework for two to three graduate credits, consisting of timely and engaging content meant to be delivered in an intensive environment.

Duties/Responsibilities

• Create engaging content suitable for two to three credits of graduate work, aligned with the theme of the session.

• Work with teachers of all different backgrounds and grade levels.

• Lead lessons and demonstrate strategies to participants.

• Conference with students individually and in groups.

• Promote individual student ideas and foster independence in creation of lessons, writing units, etc.

• Coordinate with the other Literacy Institute teachers and Staff to ensure all students are safe and able to thrive.

Minimum Acceptable Education & Experience:

• Masters degree in education or English

• Minimum of five years’ teaching in either upper elementary (grades 4- 6), middle school ELA classroom, or high school English classroom, plus experience teaching college level courses or workshops.

Required Licenses & Certification

• Valid teaching license required

Applicant Instructions: 

Applicants should be prepared to upload the following documents when applying online within the My Experience: Resume/CV section of the application: (Maximum of 5 Documents)

• Resume/CV

Compensation Pay Range:

$5000 for 4-credit course

The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is located in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of 13,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

EEO Statement

The University System of New Hampshire is an Equal Opportunity/Equal Access employer. The University System is committed to creating an environment that values and supports diversity and inclusiveness across our campus communities and encourages applications from qualified individuals who will help us achieve this mission. The University System prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, genetic information, veteran status, or marital status.

The pay range for this position is listed above. Actual offer will be based on skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity, in addition to relevant business considerations. More information on benefits can be found here: USNH Employee Benefits | Human Resources

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