(This job is posted in accordance with the CUPE 3902, Unit 3 Collective Agreement)

Date of Posting: October 11, 2007

Date of Closing November 8, 2007

Four positions posted below

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1. Position: Sessional Lecturer to teach TPS 1040H: Educational Administration I: Introduction to Educational Administration: Policy, Leadership, and Change (Winter 2008)

2. Course Description:  This course provides an introduction to educational policy, leadership, and change in general and to this program in particular by focusing on foundational concepts and theories significant to the understanding of education and educational administration, educational policy, leadership, and change, such as organization, community, power, authority, change, difference, leadership, and values.  This examination will take into account major historical developments in the field as well as differing theoretical stances or paradigms, such as positivism, functionalism, interpretivism, critical pedagogy, feminism, post-structuralism and post-modernism.  The course will help students understand how to use theory to make sense of educational practice in productive ways.

3. Estimated course enrolment: 20  TA support: none

4. Class schedule: Mondays 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. from January 7, 2008 until April 4, 2008.

5. Sessional dates of appointment: January 1, 2008 until April 30, 2008

6. Salary: Sessional Lecturer I rate of $6,275 per half credit (inclusive of vacation pay)

7. Qualifications: Candidates must hold a teacher's certificate of qualification or related qualifications, a related postgraduate degree, and demonstrated expertise in theory and policy studies and educational administration, and in particular, knowledge of the four strands of the field central to our program: policy, leadership, diversity, and change.  Candidates must be approved (or be able to be approved) by the School of Graduate Studies to teach graduate courses.  Preference will be given to individuals with prior graduate teaching experience in the four areas of focus in educational administration: change, leadership, policy and social diversity.  The Department of Theory and Policy Studies is committed to equity, diversity, democracy, and respsect among its members and candidates must be willing to work in that environment.

8. Duties: Prepare, organize, and lead this graduate half course; be available to students seeking assistance between classes; and evaluate student work and provide students with feedback.

9. Applications: All applications must be received by November 8, 2007.  Indicate in a letter of application why you believe your experience qualifies you to teach this particular course.  Include a CV and the names and comprehensive contact information for three references.

Applications should be sent to:

Dr. Jim Ryan, Program Coordinator, Educational Adminstration

Department of Theory and Policy Studies,

OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6

Phone: 416-978-1152

Fax: 416-926-4741

email: jryan@oise.utoronto.ca

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1. Position: Sessional Lecturer  to teach TPS 1041H: Educational Administration II: Social and Policy Contexts of Schooling (Winter 2008)

2. Course Description: This course will focus on the social and policy contexts in which elementary and secondary educators work.  Students will be exposed to a variety of issues related to schooling in a diverse and complex environment such as: differing purposes, philosophies, and values of education; multiculturalism and social justice; equity issues related to race, class, gender and language; parental influence on schooling; the relationship of schooling to the labor market and the economy; choice of school and program; decentralization and centralization; standards and accountability; educational finance; school reform; educational and non-educational pressure groups and stakeholders.  Through an exploration of these or related topics, this course will help students to continue to develop their understanding of different paradigms and methods used in research in educational administration, leadership, policy and change.

3. Estimated course enrolment: 20  TA support: none

4. Class schedule: Thursdays 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

5. Sessional dates of appointment: January 7, 2008 to April 30, 2008

6. Salary: Sessional Lecturer I rate of $6,275 per half credit (inclusive of vacation pay)

7. Qualifications: Candidates must hold a teacher's certificate of qualification or related qualifications, a related postgraduate degree, and demonstrated expertise in theory and policy studies and educational administration, and in particular, knowledge of the four strands of the field central to our program: policy, leadership, diversity, and change.  Candidates must be approved (or be able to be approved)  by the School of Graduate Studies to teach graduate courses.  Preference will be given to individuals with prior graduate teaching experience in the four areas of focus in educational adminstration: change, leadership, policy and social diversity.  The Department of Theory and Policy Studies is committed to equity, diversity, democracy, and respect among its members and candidates must be willing to work in that environment.

8. Duties: Prepare, organize, and lead this graduate half course; be available to students seeking assistance between classes; and evaluate student work and provide students with feedback.

9. Applications:  All applications must be received by November 8, 2007.  Indicate in a letter of application why you believe your experience qualifies you to teach this particular course.  Include a CV and the names and comprehensive contact information for three references.

Applications should be sent to:

Dr. Jim Ryan, Program Coordinator, Educational Adminstration

Department of Theory and Policy Studies,

OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6

Phone: 416-978-1152

Fax: 416-926-4741

email: jryan@oise.utoronto.ca

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1. Position: Sessional Lecturer to teach TPS 1050H: Themes and Issues in Change, Leadership, Policy and Social Diversity (Winter 2008)

2. Course Description: This course provides a comprehensive view of the field of educational administration. Candidates are encouraged to summarize, integrate and consolidate knowledge in the field.  Students will link problems in practice to the theoretical bases of the field.  This course reflects the four strands in Educational Administration: change, leadership, policy and social diversity.  There is a focus on analysis, synthesis and application, building a deeper understanding situated in the broader field.

3. Estimated course enrolment: 20  TA support: none

4. Class schedule: Mondays 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

5. Sessional dates of appointment: January 7, 2008 until April 30, 2008

6. Salary: Sessional Lecturer rate of $6,275 per half credit (inclusive of vacation pay)

7. Qualifications: Candidates must hold a teacher's certificate of qualification or related qualifications, a related postgraduate degree, and demonstrated expertise in theory and policy studies and educational administration, and in particular, knowledge of the four strands of the field central to our program: policy, leadership, diversity, and change.  Candidates must be approved (or be able to be approved)  by the School of Graduate Studies to teach graduate courses.  Preference will be given to individuals with prior graduate teaching experience in the four areas of focus in educational adminstration: change, leadership, policy and social diversity.  The Department of Theory and Policy Studies is committed to equity, diversity, democracy, and respect among its members and candidates must be willing to work in that environment.

8. Duties: Prepare, organize, and lead this graduate half course; be available to students seeking assistance between classes; and evaluate student work and provide students with feedback.

9. Applications:  All applications must be received by November 8, 2007.  Indicate in a letter of application why you believe your experience qualifies you to teach this particular course.  Include a CV and the names and comprehensive contact information for three references.

Applications should be sent to:

Dr. Jim Ryan, Program Coordinator, Educational Adminstration

Department of Theory and Policy Studies,

OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6

Phone: 416-978-1152

Fax: 416-926-4741

email: jryan@oise.utoronto.ca

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1. Position: Sessional Lecturer to teach TPS 2006H: Educational Finance and Economics (Winter 2008) (on line)

2. Course Description: Topics include: public education as an economic institution; the sources and methods of distribution of public schools revenue at the various levels of government; provincial and state school grant systems and the rationale behind them; principles and practices in school budgeting and salary rescheduling; the relationship between investment and education, the formation of human capital, and national economic growth.

3. Estimated course enrolment: 15  TA support: none

4. Class schedule: from January 7, 2008, until April 30, 2008

5. Sessional dates of appointment: January 7, 2008 to April 30, 2008

6. Salary: Sessional Lecturer rate of $6,275 per half credit (inclusive of vacation pay)

7. Qualifications: Candidates must hold a teacher's certificate of qualification or related qualifications, a related postgraduate degree, and demonstrated expertise in theory and policy studies and educational administration, and in particular, knowledge of the four strands of the field central to our program: policy, leadership, diversity, and change.  Candidates must be approved (or be able to be approved)  by the School of Graduate Studies to teach graduate courses.  Preference will be given to individuals with prior graduate teaching experience in the four areas of focus in educational adminstration: change, leadership, policy and social diversity.  The Department of Theory and Policy Studies is committed to equity, diversity, democracy, and respect among its members and candidates must be willing to work in that environment.

8. Duties: Prepare, organize, and lead this graduate half course; be available to students seeking assistance between classes; and evaluate student work and provide students with feedback.

9. Applications:  All applications must be received by November 8, 2007.  Indicate in a letter of application why you believe your experience qualifies you to teach this particular course.  Include a CV and the names and comprehensive contact information for three references.

Applications should be sent to:

Dr. Jim Ryan, Program Coordinator, Educational Adminstration

Department of Theory and Policy Studies,

OISE/UT, 252 Bloor St West, Toronto, ON M5S 1V6

Phone: 416-978-1152

Fax: 416-926-4741

email: jryan@oise.utoronto.ca