"EDUC 520: Educating Infants and Toddlers"

Onground Position Vacancy-Onground Adjunct Instructor for EDUC 520: Educating Infants and Toddlers: Programs and Activities. Bank Street Graduate School of Education is looking for an onground adjunct instructor for fall 2025. This course will be taught on campus. Dates: September 3rd - December 22nd, Wednesdays, 7:00-9:00 PM. EDUC 520: Educating Infants and Toddlers: Programs and Activities, 3 credits. Graduate students will explore aspects of the infant/toddler curriculum through the framework of the developmental interaction approach, which uses relationship-based care to promote healthy social and emotional well-being. A major focus of the course is infant/toddler play and the adult's role in reflecting on, supporting, and fostering play. Participants will learn to design curriculum that integrates language and literacy development; art and music; the use of expressive materials; and experiences that promote scientific and mathematical thinking. The course will prepare graduate students to critically examine the parameters of noteworthy programs for typically developing infants and toddlers as well as those with developmental variations and exposure to toxic stress. Graduate students will critique various local, national, and international exemplary and evidence-based approaches and programs. In order to concretize real-life issues, the course will include exploration of programs that serve diverse populations such as Early Intervention and Early Head Start. An overview of the early intervention law (Part C of IDEA) is included. Qualifications: Master's degree required. 5 or more years of teaching infants and toddlers with diverse linguistic, cultural, and racial backgrounds, preferred. Experience teaching at the graduate level is preferred. Compensation: $4,470