Art of Teaching Guest Faculty: Emergent Curriculum (with an emphasis on science) at Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York

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Art of Teaching Guest Faculty: Emergent Curriculum (with an emphasis on science)

Guest Faculty

Non-Tenure Track

The Sarah Lawrence College Art of Teaching program is seeking Guest Faculty for a semester-long course in Emergent Curriculum with an emphasis on science in the spring of 2023. The Art of Teaching program is a small, collaborative teacher education program that fosters a close connection between faculty members and between students and faculty.


The Art of Teaching Program is committed to providing mentoring to support racial and cultural diversity within the program. We encourage candidates who may otherwise meet the professional qualifications but lack graduate teaching experience to apply with an understanding that teaching support will be provided.


Application materials must include a cover letter, CV, a brief statement about the role of social justice in the classroom, and names and contact information for three references. The position will remain open until filled.


Emergent Curriculum is a yearlong course in which children's interests and approaches to learning are at the forefront. Central to the course is understanding how to create a curriculum that is driven by ideas-striving for wholeness, integration, coherence, and meaning-and focused on assisting children in applying knowledge and thinking to real-life problems. Classroom design and organization, media and materials, and approaches to teaching and learning across disciplines will be discussed, with an emphasis on the arts, sciences, and humanities. We will learn how to develop curricula with multiple entry points. We will reflect on ways of knowing in our own learning and that of the children and explore teaching strategies that expand children's knowledge and modes of thinking and learning. We will discuss curriculum and teaching strategies for individual subject areas, with an emphasis on the connections among disciplines, building toward an interdisciplinary approach to curriculum and instruction. The roles of the teacher as an observer, provisioner, collaborator, and facilitator will be discussed. During the year, we will engage in hands-on inquiry in workshop settings and take multiple local field trips to environmental centers, historical sites, and art museums-reflecting on our own learning to draw implications for classroom practice. We will discuss how children's interests and questions connect to the large ideas and questions at the core of the subject matter disciplines. The value will be placed on enabling in-depth inquiry, experimentation, and discovery and on establishing classroom communities based on collaborative learning and rooted in social justice. National and state standards, including the New York State Standards for the Arts, Social Studies, and Sciences, will be critiqued and integrated into our work. By the end of the year, students will create their own multidisciplinary curriculum plan, which will become a resource for colleagues and Art of Teaching alumni.

Candidates should have a minimum of three years of full-time K-6 teaching experience. Teacher certification is preferred in early childhood education and/or 1st-6th grade childhood education.

Effective October 15, 2021, all employees of Sarah Lawrence College must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination. Exceptions to this requirement will only be considered for documented medical reasons or sincerely held religious beliefs. Any offers of employment will be contingent on successful completion of a background check and submission of proof of vaccination.

Sarah Lawrence College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and has as one of its goals the recruitment and retention of a racially and culturally diverse administration, staff and faculty. To that end, every job opening is seen as an opportunity to increase diversity and every effort will be made to expand the applicant pool in accordance with these goals.


Sarah Lawrence College is located in southern Westchester County, 25 minutes by train from midtown Manhattan, NYC. For information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching methods, and philosophy of education, please see our website at https://www.sarahlawrence.edu/.

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