City : Hamilton

Category : Other

Industry : Education

Employer : McMaster University

The INSPIRE Office of Flexible Learning invites applications for the following teaching position to be offered in the 2026 Fall term. 

*Supplemented Fees- 15.02(a) The employee may be eligible to receive supplemented fees in accordance with Schedule C of the Collective Agreement. The actual rate of pay when in excess of the base rate of pay is deemed to include any supplemented fees owing, to the extent of the excess amount. If the actual rate of pay is less than the sum of the base rate of pay and the supplemented fees owing, then the employee shall receive the difference. 

Course Description 
This course is meant to serve as an introduction to pedagogical theory for undergraduate students interested in pursuing a career in teaching (broadly conceived). The course engages with educational and social theorists aimed at providing students with a framework through which they understand pedagogical practice (and what pedagogy means to them). This course has no prerequisites, and will be accessible to students in any program or faculty. 

Required Qualifications 

The successful applicant will have previous experience teaching courses in and around pedagogy and education broadly conceived.

This course will be delivered in a largely active learning format. The successful candidate should have experience with collaborative/interactive teaching methods, cutting edge pedagogical practice, and a record of and commitment to engaging and supporting students as though the future depended on it (because it does).

The successful candidate will be intimately familiar with the most recent developments in integrating equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility into pedagogical theory and practice. They should also be well-versed in a range of literatures, including (but not limited to) decolonial, anarchist, queer, feminist, abolitionist, and critical pedagogies.

PhD/EdD is required.

Preferred Qualifications 

Some familiarity with the Ontario curriculum (elementary, middle, and high school) and its approaches to literacies and competencies at each level.

A willingness and ability to reflect on teaching and learning in and across disciplines. INSPIRE 2ED3 will attract students from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science faculties. The instructor should be competent in translating this course’s topics and themes to students in each of these areas of specialty.
 

Additional Principles

The INSPIRE Office of Flexible Learning is striving to build a community of teaching and learning that marries upping the quotient of wonder in the learning process with a burgeoning sense of pedagogies of kindness. The successful candidate ideally should be comfortable being a part of that community and contributing to it. In addition to experience and qualifications, the successful candidate should also reflect the following principles of teaching and learning:

• A belief in students, in the value of their ideas, and in their willingness to learn.

• A determination to support students’ projects and initiatives by listening carefully.

• A commitment to quality, constructive feedback.

• An appreciation that there is no authentic wisdom without humility.

• A coherence in practice: the best teaching is given by example.

• A dedication to the mission of education and its responsibilities—and that improving it is impossible.

• An insistence that an education where imagination is the heart of learning is possible.