Position Vacancy- Onground Adjunct Instructor for EDUC 803: Teaching Students with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disability Theory, Disability Law and Responsive Practices
Bank Street College, Graduate School of Education, is looking for an Onground Adjunct instructor for the following course to be taught Spring, 2026, on campus. This section will run specifically for students in our Early Childhood Advanced Standing program.
Dates: January 20 2026 - May 5 2026
Course Day/Time: Wednesday 4:45-6:45

EDUC 803: Teaching Students with Disabilities: An Introduction to Disability Theory, Disability Law and Responsive Practices, 2 credits
This course is designed to increase participants' awareness and understanding of the educational, social, cultural, linguistic and developmental implications of disability from historical, legal, and socio-political perspectives. The course will critically examine state and federal special education and disability laws and regulations and their implementation across a range of settings including their intersection with issues of race, class, language and gender. There is an emphasis on understanding how disability is socially constructed at the levels of family, community, school, and the larger society. Participants apply an understanding of disabilities to analyze and create accessible learning experiences for children.

Qualifications:
- Master's degree in development, psychology, special education, or related field required. Doctorate preferred.
- 5 or more years of experience in the field working directly with children from a range of cultural and linguistic backgrounds in educational or clinical contexts.
- Experience in the field supporting children's social and emotional development.
- Experience in the field working with early childhood centers and/or public organizations, preferred.
- Experience teaching at the graduate level, preferred.

Compensation:
- $4,276

About Bank Street College of Education

The mission of Bank Street College is to improve the education of children and their teachers by applying to the educational process all available knowledge about learning and growth, and by connecting teaching and learning meaningfully to the outside world. In so doing, we seek to strengthen not only individuals, but the community as well, including family, school, and the larger society in which adults and children, in all their diversity, interact and learn. We see in education the opportunity to build a better society.

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