Sabancı University invites applications for a full-time visiting instructor specialized in STEM education to provide pedagogical support in a basic integrated science course for freshman students (NS101/102). The course is offered in a student-centered format, where all in-class components take place in active, collaborative learning environment. The contents of the course emphasize scientific critical thinking and scientific literacy discussed through four modules, in which the students probe four open scientific question closely related to our daily life, using basic scientific concepts from physics, chemistry and biology. The course is a part of our core curriculum compulsory for all freshman students, which is coordinated by the FDD.
For more information on the NS101/102 course, please visit http://scienceofnature.sabanciuniv.edu.
The candidate should have a Ph.D. degree in science education. The selected applicant is expected to provide professional development for the course instructors as well as contribute to course material development, improvement and course evaluations of NS101 or NS102.
Sabanci University, a privately funded premier academic institution, started instruction in the 1999-2000 academic year in its new state-of-the-art campus located in suburban Istanbul. The University offers 12 undergraduate programs and 23 graduate programs in three faculties (Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Management). The University aims at establishing a high standard of academic excellence and a research-oriented atmosphere both for its faculty and for its students, while nurturing productive relationships particularly with the industries in the region which constitute the industrial heartland of Turkey. The medium of instruction is English.
Applicants are invited to submit their application package (CV, teaching statement, representative publications and two names of references) to Arzu Kıran (arzu@sabanciuniv.edu).
For full consideration for 2019-2020 Academic Year, applications should be received by August 19, 2019.
