Teaching Assistant for Pastoral Identity and Spiritual Care

Semester: Fall 2025
Dates: September 4 - December 5, 2025
Class meeting times: Tuesdays, 3:00pm - 5:50pm

PC1103 Pastoral Identity and Spiritual Care seeks applicants for a Teaching Assistant for Fall 2025. The TA reads the course texts and attend classes alongside faculty and students. The TA supports Professor of Record in cultivating a healthy learning environment by offering peer emotional and spiritual support as well as in reflective peer feedback. The TA collaborates with the Professor of Record in a weekly 30 minute planning meeting, teaches one didactic, and facilitates up to 2 guided verbatims over the course of the semester. There is no requirement to grade assignments for this class.

The ideal candidate:

• Is at least a second year LPtS student (if a transfer, has been apart of the LPTS community for at least one year).
• Practices embodied open, inclusive, and affirming intercultural practices in class and in the LPTS and global community.
• Has taken Pastoral Identity and Spiritual Care at LPTS or an equivalent pastoral/spiritual care class at a seminary.
• Has taken at least 1 unit of Clinical Pastoral Education in any setting (ACPE accredited site).
• Displays characteristics and qualities of a potential CPE Educator.

Eligible persons from all backgrounds are invited to apply. Inquiries should be made to Profesor Amina McIntyre at amcintyre@lpts.edu by Monday, September 8, 2025.