Career Center

Bing Teacher 2

School/Unit Description:

The School of Humanities and Sciences (H&S) is the foundation of a liberal arts education at Stanford. The school encompasses 23 departments and 25 interdisciplinary programs. H&S is home to fundamental and applied research, where free, open, and critical inquiry is pursued across disciplines. As the university's largest school, H&S serves as the foundation of a Stanford undergraduate education no matter which discipline students pursue as a major. Graduate students work alongside world-renowned faculty to pursue and shape foundational research that leads to breakthroughs and discoveries that shed new light on the past, influence the present, and shape the future. Together, faculty and students in H&S engage in inspirational teaching, learning, and research every day.

Bing Nursery School is part of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University and serves as a laboratory for the Department of Psychology. The department established the school in 1966 to serve as a site for research and training in child development. It provides high quality educational programs to over 500 young children (2-5 years) each year, their parents, students in training, and research and teaching faculty.

Plan and implement educational experiences for pre-school children with a child development focus in a laboratory school setting to support faculty research and undergraduate instruction in developmental psychology and early education. Assist with supervision and mentoring of new teachers and supervise, guide, and mentor undergraduate students.

CORE DUTIES*:

• Plan and implement creative and challenging curriculum projects and activities in the areas of language and literacy, cognitive, emotional, social, and physical growth; plan and structure environments to facilitate activities.
• Provide instruction to children; identify emerging curriculum and work with the children on short-term and long-term projects.
• Use observation skills to record children's behavior and maintain anecdotal records.
• Work directly with parents providing verbal updates and interpreting their children's behavior; hold formal conferences with families including initial developmental history intake, spring review and home visits.
• Assist the head teacher in supervising and mentoring new teachers and contribute to their performance evaluations.
• Work directly with researchers to facilitate faculty and undergraduate student research projects; help children to participate in relevant studies; help researchers develop rapport with the children.
• Supervise, guide and mentor undergraduate students observing or participating in the classroom; provide students with verbal and written feedback on their progress; demonstrate to undergraduate students the links between theory and actual classroom activity in support of the student's academic development.
• Design, produce and display program content and the children's work; write articles for school newsletters; present at parent seminars and early childhood conferences; provide tours for visitors.