Immediately Need Assistant Professor of Music Education in Long Beach, CA
Job title: Assistant Professor of Music Education
Company: California State University
Job description: Position: Assistant Professor of Music Education
Effective Date: August 19, 2024 (Fall Semester)
Salary: The Assistant Professor (Academic Year) classification salary is $5,405 to $11,994/per month (12 monthly payments per academic year). The anticipated hiring range is $5,405 to $8,333/per month. Salary offered is commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Application Deadline: Review of applications to begin October 3, 2023, Position opened until filled (or recruitment canceled)
The Bob Cole Conservatory of Music (BCCM) seeks an innovative colleague in Music Education specializing in elementary general music and/or secondary choral music education and inclusive practices. The Music Education program serves over 150 undergraduate students and approximately 80 music credential students. The BCCM houses one of the largest music education programs in California.
Required Qualifications:
- PhD or DMA in Music Education. Degree at time of application or official notification of completion of the doctoral degree by August 1, 2024.
- Minimum of 3 years K-12 public school music teaching experience
- A broad knowledge of pedagogical approaches in Elementary General and/or Secondary Choral Music Education
- Demonstrated potential for inclusive teaching and sustaining a productive track record in research, scholarly/ creative activities, and service
- Demonstrated commitment to working successfully with a diverse student population
- Demonstrated commitment to the prioritization of diversity, equity, and inclusion as core values within music education
- Demonstrated commitment to offering a 21st-century teaching and learning experience that balances traditional approaches in K-12 pre-service music teacher education with expanding and diversifying music making platforms and approaches
- At least seven years of K-12 public school music teaching
- Foundations in traditional (e.g. Orff, Kodály, Dalcroze, Music Learning Theory) and contemporary (e.g. popular music, world drumming, ukulele) approaches to teaching music
- Experience employing culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies
- Experience with teacher performance assessments (i.e., edTPA or CalTPA)
- Demonstrated record of peer-reviewed research, creative, or scholarly activities
- Demonstrated leadership and/or service in music education
- Experience of successfully working with populations demographically and socioeconomically similar to the CSULB student body (
- Teach courses in the Bachelor of Music in Music Education degree program in the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music, credential courses in the Single Subject Credential Program (College of Education), and graduate courses in our proposed interdisciplinary/interdepartmental Master of Arts in Visual and Performing Arts Education (School of Art). Additional courses as assigned or within the candidate's specialty. (Mode of instruction may include in-person, hybrid, online, and/or any combination thereof.)
- Recruit new music education students
- Mentor and supervise students in the music education program including student teachers
- Engage in program-related service activities such as work on Master's thesis committees, participation in recruitment and evaluation of lecturers
- Develop and sustain research, scholarly and creative activities in the field leading to presentations and publications
- Participate in service to the department, college, university, and community
- An Equity and Diversity Statement about your teaching or other experiences, successes, and challenges in working with a diverse student population (maximum two pages, single-spaced). For further information and guidelines, please visit:
- Letter of application addressing the required and preferred qualifications
- CV
- Names and contact information for three references (to be contacted for confidential letters of recommendation should you reach the finalist stage)
- Copy of transcript from institution awarding highest degree
- Music teaching video and corresponding lesson plan that demonstrates inclusive teaching through 21st-Century learning experiences that balance traditional and non-traditional approaches to teaching music (preferably a pre-service music teacher course, when possible), if applicable
- Finalists will be required to submit an official transcript (e-transcript preferred, if available)