Job Description
The Education Department at Iona University invites applications for multiple part-time University Supervisors to observe, mentor, and engage in structured feedback cycles with teacher candidates during their clinical placements. Successful candidates will demonstrate reflective practice, curiosity, and a commitment to supporting students through a rigorous student-teaching experience.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct mixed-format observations for a cohort of 5-6 student teachers
- Attend and participate in student teacher seminar weekly
- Attend weekly supervisor meetings
- Mentor and support student teachers
- Hold pre/post observation conferences with student teachers to encourage reflection and support growth
- Provide feedback for student teachers to support their developing teaching skills: fostering a positive classroom environment, planning practices, adapting instruction for diverse learners, culturally responsive teaching, and engaging in reflection and self-assessment
Required Qualifications:
- Available for observations, coaching sessions, or support during regular school hours
- Able to arrange transportation to the New Rochelle area, including Iona campus and schools within a 10-15 mile radius of campus
- Master's degree
- 3+ years teaching experience, with a record of success
- Valid teaching certification
Preferred Qualifications:
- Valid NYS teaching certification in literacy-focused areas; childhood; early childhood; secondary subject-specific areas; special education
- Experience with best-practice literacy instruction, SEL, classroom management techniques, culturally responsive teaching
- Experience coaching / mentoring student teachers or emerging/early-career educators
About Iona University/EEO language Founded in 1940, Iona University is a master's-granting private, Catholic, coeducational institution of learning in the tradition of the Edmund Rice Christian Brothers. Iona's 45-acre New Rochelle campus and 28-acre Bronxville campus are just 20 miles north of Midtown Manhattan. With a total enrollment of nearly 4,000 students and an alumni base of more than 50,000 around the world, Iona is a diverse community of learners and scholars dedicated to academic excellence and the values of justice, peace and service. Iona is highly accredited, offering undergraduate degrees in liberal arts, science and business administration, as well as Master of Arts, Master of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees and numerous advanced certificate programs. Iona students enjoy small class sizes, engaged professors and a wide array of academic programs across the School of Arts & Science; LaPenta School of Business; NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences; and Hynes Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Iona also continues to be recognized in prestigious national rankings. Most recently for 2025, Iona has been named one of the nation's best colleges by The Princeton Review, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes and others. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report recognized Iona as one of top colleges for social mobility in the country, while Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) ranked an Iona degree in the top 5 percent nationally for long-term return on investment. Iona's LaPenta School of Business, meanwhile, is also accredited by AACSB International, a recognition awarded to just 6 percent of business schools worldwide.
Iona offers a comprehensive benefits package to all full-time employees that includes medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; retirement plans; life insurance; short and long-term disability; employee assistance program (EAP); tuition remission; and generous time off. For more information on our benefits and working at Iona visit the Human Resources section of our website.
Iona University values and celebrates diversity and is committed to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all of our employees and does not tolerate discrimination based on any legally protected characteristic under applicable federal, state, or local laws. As an equal opportunity employer, Iona University encourages applications from qualified candidates who reflect the wider world in which we live.
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