LSE100 is an innovative, interdisciplinary course that is compulsory for all LSE undergraduates. LSE’s flagship course aims to introduce students to the fundamental elements of thinking as a social scientist by engaging with important issues of public debate from the perspective of different disciplines, and to strengthen their analytical, research and communication skills.

As a high-profile initiative of the School, LSE100 is an exciting to be part of, but it’s also challenging – not least because teachers will spend much of the course teaching outside their subject area. These challenges are, however, matched by a high level of training and personalised support for teachers on the course.

Successful candidates will have a commitment to delivering high-quality teaching and to developing a full repertoire of techniques and ideas for student-led learning. They will also have the ability and willingness to work as an effective member of the LSE100 teaching team, in close partnership with other teachers, and to promote the aims and vision for the course. In addition, holding, or undertaking, a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education or a comparable teaching qualification is desirable.

LSE100 class teachers teach four class groups per week, attend the weekly lectures and staff meetings (‘refreshers’), and offer regular office hours to students. In addition, the teaching team has two-three longer ‘standardisation’ meetings each term, prior to marking each piece of assessed coursework.

Appointments will start in Week 1 of Lent Term 2017. All teachers are also required (and paid) to attend an induction and two pre-term teacher training sessions on 5 and 6 January 2017.

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Dr Jessica Templeton, LSE100 Director (j.b.templeton@lse.ac.uk). We appreciate your interest in this post.

Closing date for receipt of applications: 9.00am on Friday, 2 December 2016.
Regrettably, we cannot accept any applications received after this deadline.

Thank you for your interest this post. The relevant documents and instructions for applications are listed below:

Job Description
Person Specification
Further Particulars
Application form Part A: Candidate’s application
Application form Part B: Reference request form

How to apply:

If you wish to be considered for the post of LSE100 Class Teacher, please do the following:

Download and save Application Form Part B from the LSE100 website. This is a reference request form. Send this file, and the Job Description, to someone who can comment on your academic abilities and on your suitability for teaching for LSE100 and ask them to complete and return Part B to the LSE100 Course Office by email (LSE100@lse.ac.uk) or by post to the address below. This should be done separately from your application and, if possible, by the application deadline.
Download and complete the Application Form Part A.
Once you have completed your Application Form Part A, prepare and submit your application as follows:

Print and sign a copy of your Application Form Part A.
Photocopy and include evidence of your eligibility to work in the UK. This can be the relevant pages of your passport and student card if you are a student or other visa holder. (If you are a successful candidate and are not already employed by the School, you will be asked to present the original documents).
An essential criterion of the person specification against which the Selection Committee will be shortlisting is “A commitment to high quality teaching that will become evident in the development of an engaging, dynamic, considered and successful teaching style and a repertoire of techniques and ideas for student-centred teaching and inductive learning.” Please include a list of any teaching experience and copies of the associated TQARO reports (these can be obtained from the TQARO office). Where TQARO reports are not available (e.g., for teaching experience at another institution) candidates may submit relevant student feedback survey results or an alternative form of independent evaluation. Please contact LSE100@lse.ac.uk for further details.
You may include additional references and/or a Curriculum Vitae if you wish.

Please submit Application Form Part A and the supporting documents to the LSE100 Course Administrator by 9.00am (UK time) on Friday, 2 December 2016. You may submit your documents via email to LSE100@lse.ac.uk or by post to: LSE100 Course Administrator, Room KSW.4.05, LSE, Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE.

We hope that you will find it easy to apply for this vacancy and we look forward to receiving your application. However, if you do have any queries about submitting your application or are unable to use the forms (for example, if you have a disability), please contact the Course Administrator to discuss alternative methods of application.