Human Resources

The Education Department at Lake Forest College invites candidates with a secondary education background to apply for a tenure-track appointment in a highly successful, rigorous liberal-arts teacher licensure program, starting in fall 2025. The successful candidate will also support Education students across licensure programs for all grade levels - PK-12, elementary, middle-school, and secondary education. Responsibilities will include teaching a wide variety of course offerings in areas such as secondary teaching methods (both general and discipline-specific) and educational foundations. Other responsibilities include advising students, assessing teacher candidate portfolios, and supervising clinical student teaching and pre-student teaching practicum placements in a variety of clinical settings.

Required Qualifications:

A successful candidate will complement the strengths of current faculty and will have:

• A doctorate in education. (ABD is acceptable if degree is conferred prior to the start of the 25-26 academic year.)
• Strong background in secondary general and discipline-specific pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and culturally responsive teaching;
• Strong teaching experience or potential at the college level;
• Considerable years of successful teaching experience in 6^th– 12^th grade classrooms;
• Commitment to antiracist and culturally sustaining pedagogies;
• Demonstrated or strong potential for scholarly productivity;
• Demonstrated interest in working in PK-12 partnerships in culturally and linguistically diverse settings in a variety of Chicagoland area school districts;
• Demonstrated commitment to collegial collaboration to sustain our excellent reputation for teaching and supervision in our PK-12 licensure programs in a liberal-arts, residential-college setting.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bilingual/multilingual background;
• Experience in ESL, bilingual education, and/or special education;
• A desire to participate in school-reform initiatives and/or discourse;
• Active membership and demonstrated or potential for leadership in relevant scholarly communities through research productivity.

The Department of Education at Lake Forest College:

The Education Department draws from the social reconstructionist tradition to foster a social justice and antiracist framework for teaching and learning. Our aim is to prepare critical, analytical, reflective teachers, who view themselves as agents of change in schools and who see teaching as a rigorous intellectual and serious moral endeavor. The Department takes pride in the diversity of its school district partnerships. The Department has a strong commitment to excellence in teaching and scholarship to support our students’ development in the teaching profession. To learn more about the Lake Forest College Department of Education’s program and conceptual framework, please visit: https://www.lakeforest.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/education/social-justice-and-anti-racism-focus   

Application Process:

By October 1, 2024, please submit the following to educsearch@lakeforest.edu:

• Letter of application
• Curriculum vita
• Philosophy statement demonstrating commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• *Letters of recommendation will be requested prior to the interview process.

Materials should be addressed to Dr. Jacquelynn S. Popp, Search Committee Chair.

Lake Forest College:

A highly selective liberal arts college located on Chicago’s North Shore, Lake Forest College enrolls approximately 1,800 students from more than 40 states and from more than 100 countries. Lake Forest is one of the most diverse small colleges in the Midwest with approximately 40% of our student body comprised of domestic students of color and international students. At Lake Forest College, the quality of a faculty member’s teaching is the most important criterion for evaluation. The College also expects peer-reviewed publications and active participation in the College community. Lake Forest College embraces diversity and encourages applications from women, members of historically underrepresented groups, veterans, and individuals with disabilities.