Previous JobJob TitlePost Doctoral Fellow, UMSL Charter School Translational Fellows (UMSL-CSTF) Next JobApply for JobJob ID59438 LocationSt. Louis Full/Part TimeFull-Time Add to My Favorite JobsEmail this Job Hiring Department The College of Education, University of Missouri , St. Louis Job Description The College of Education is looking for a promising Ph.D. or Ed.D. graduate in Learning Sciences, Psychology, or
Education to help advance its mission to engage in research, education, and advocacy which inform and promote more effective and productive student learning experiences in St. Louis area schools for a twenty-four-month period. The ideal candidate will be an outstanding strategic thinker with the confidence and leadership skills necessary to serve as an expert on learning sciences research while working in a
team-based school environment with education professionals providing effective instructional coaching practices. The candidate will have a good grasp of data acquisition, management, and visualization skills to inform educational practice and policy decision-making and support research-practice partnerships. The ideal candidate will also understand the multi-level structure of school systems and appreciate the
opportunities and challenges of working for change within the public school educational and administrative structure.Working closely with UMSL-CSTF program leadership, this position will help serve the K-12 education system in St. Louis to address K-12 instructional needs using an inquiry model, embedding learning science principles and data analytics to promote more effective and productive student learning
experiences. During the two years of service, the fellow will be engaged in four core activities in partnership with the UMSL Charter Schools and UMSL Studio Schools. Activities include completing collaborative cycles of inquiry addressing site-based problems of practice by learning practical ways to implement research into practice and studying a problem using mixed-methods, participating and co-leading interactive
seminars (i.e., the science of learning; research design, program evaluation, data analytics, and data visualization; cognitive coaching and adaptive schools coaching reflections; and multi-level structures of school systems), enhancing instructional coaching skills, and collaborating with UMSL and school-site mentors to produce and use translational research related products to gain an understanding of how research
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