Clinical Instructors - The School and Community Experiences

College of Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The School and Community Experiences, in the College of Education, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, seeks Clinical Instructors to serve as direct supervisors of teacher candidates during their field experiences. These part-time positions will be between zero to 80% time, depending on the load. The Clinical Instructors are responsible for coordination of the overall supervision throughout the semester.

The University of Illinois is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, disability or veteran status. For more information, visit http://go.illinois.edu/EEO.

Clinical supervisors make classroom observations of the student teachers and offer support and guidance to the cooperating teachers. The supervisor is also the major communication link between the placement school and the College of Education. Supervisors will meet regularly with School and Community Experiences (SCE) staff and have frequent communications with the methods instructors.

1. Serving as liaison among student teachers, cooperating teachers, course instructors, and SCE staff.
2. Observing student teachers during the field experience. The clinical instructor will also conduct goal-setting, pre-observation, and reflective post-observation conferences. A minimum of formal observations will be made for each placement experience.
3. Providing oral and written feedback to teacher candidates after each formal observation.
4. Stimulating reflective thinking about teacher candidates’ objectives, goals, strategies, and progress.
5. Working collaboratively with cooperating teachers and SCE staff to enact established remediation processes for teacher candidates who need assistance in order to successfully complete program expectations.
6. Coordinating the evaluation of teacher candidates with the cooperating teachers and the teacher candidate himself/herself.
7. Facilitating seminars for teacher candidates in select geographic areas, as requested.

Minimum Requirements:

• Master’s degree or higher in education; or extensive previous clinical supervision experience or specialized training in high-needs content areas
• Teacher licensure
• Minimum of three (3) years of classroom teaching; considerable classroom teaching experience preferred

Salary: Commensurate with experience.

To ensure full consideration, please create your candidate profile at http://jobs.illinos.edu and upload a cover letter that addresses your interest in supervising as a Clinical Instructor, area(s) of expertise, possible courses or content areas for which you are qualified, curriculum vita, and the name, address, and phone numbers of three references. To ensure full consideration, complete applications must be submitted by October 20, 2021 for the Spring 2022 semester and June 15, 2022 for Fall 2022 semester.

For further information regarding the position, you may contact Cara Gutzmer at caraknox@illinois.edu.

The University of Illinois conducts criminal background checks on all job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent offer. Convictions are not a bar to employment. The University of Illinois System requires candidates selected for hire to disclose any documented finding of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment and to authorize inquiries to current and former employers regarding findings of sexual misconduct or sexual harassment. For more information, visit Policy on Consideration of Sexual Misconduct in Prior Employment. As a qualifying federal contractor, the University of Illinois System uses E-Verify to verify employment eligibility.