Job Classification:  CFS Professional Faculty (Tenure Track)

Posting close date:  October 1, 2023

Start date of this position:  August 1, 2024

Duties/Expectations:
Supervise practicum-level students and student teachers
Collaborate with field-based mentor teachers
Teach and mentor undergraduate students
Provide university and professional service
Coordinate with state board of education and professional organizations
Support the BYU Public School Partnership

Required Degree: Master's required, PhD preferred. The required degree must be completed by the start date.

Qualifications:
An earned graduate degree in special education or related field by August 2024
K-12 special education school teaching experience as teacher of record
Record of, or potential for, high quality university-based instruction
Expert-level knowledge of the current literature, trends, pedagogy, and K-12 assessments in special education
Expertise in data-based individualization and explicit instruction
Understanding of state licensing processes and standards

Experience:
Supervising and evaluating pre-service teacher candidates or teachers
Teaching college-level courses
Working and collaborating with general education teachers 

Duties/Expectations:
Supervise practicum-level students and student teachers
Collaborate with field-based mentor teachers
Teach and mentor undergraduate students
Provide university and professional service
Coordinate with state board of education and professional organizations
Support the BYU Public School Partnership

Information required at the time of application – Please list the individual contact information for each of your three recommenders on the faculty application. At some point during the selection process, they may be contacted to submit their letters of reference electronically

Document(s) required at the time of application - Please attach your Mission Alignment Statement, updated Curriculum Vitae, and cover letter to the faculty application.
Mission Alignment Statement: BYU is committed to hiring faculty members who enthusiastically embrace and energetically advance its unique mission. To this end, please include a one-page mission alignment statement as part of your application that addresses how you might, as a BYU faculty member: (1) live a life of loyalty to Jesus Christ and His restored Church and align yourself with doctrines and teachings declared by living prophets, seers, and revelators; (2) demonstrate intentionality in building faith in Jesus Christ and testimony of His restored gospel among students and others in the BYU community; and (3) teach your subject matter with the Spirit of God and strive to keep it “bathed in the light and color of the restored gospel” (Spencer W. Kimball). 

Applicants who are not members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints include a one-page mission alignment statement that describes understanding of and commitment to the Mission of Brigham Young University and the AIMS of a BYU Education (https://aims.byu.edu/).

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Equal Opportunity Employer: m/f/Vets/Disability

Brigham Young University is an equal opportunity employer.  All faculty are required to abide by the university’s Honor Code and Dress & Grooming Standards. Preference is given to qualified candidates who are members in good standing of the affiliated church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Successful candidates are expected to support and contribute to the academic and religious missions of the university within the context of the principles and doctrine of the affiliated church

All new employees who are members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be required to hold and be worthy to hold a current temple recommend.

About Brigham Young University

Established and sponsored by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young University is the largest privately owned university in the United States. Along with extensive undergraduate programs, BYU offers master’s and doctoral degrees in a variety of disciplines through fifty-three graduate departments. More than 1,500 full-time faculty instruct 33,000 students. Faculty and students work side by side in collegial scholarship enhanced by mutual commitment to the highest ideals of professional ethics and spiritual values. The faculty at BYU have been schooled at some of the leading universities of the nation as well as of other countries, and many of them have achieved national and international prominence as teachers and scholars. Situated at the foot of the beautifully rugged Wasatch Range of the Rocky Mountains and bounded on the west by twenty-three-mile-long Utah Lake, the campus is the focal point of a city of 110,000 and a valley of 331,000.

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