American Sign Language (ASL) Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Clovis Community College

About the role

The ideal candidate will share Clovis Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. As of the 2018-2019 academic year, we currently enroll approximately 12,000 students of which 44% identify as Latinx, 10% as Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% as Black/African American, 34% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 7% as multiracial. Clovis Community College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community.

Responsibilities

• Maintain standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position and currency in teaching American Sign Language (ASL)
• Use a variety of pedagogies and integrate a wide range of instructional delivery systems including innovative and creative uses of technology for face-to-face, online, and/or hybrid formats
• Communicate effectively with students
• Evaluate student progress through tests and examinations, written assignments, oral responses, etc. in keeping with course objectives
• Provide course syllabi to students
• Maintain classroom records in accordance with District Policy
• Turn in all required student grading and evaluation reports in a timely manner
• Otherwise fulfill all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher AND two years of directly related experience
• OR Associate degree AND six years of directly related experience
• OR A valid California Community College credential
• OR The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency)

Desirable Qualifications

• Experience and skill with addressing issues of equity in the classroom
• Recent experience working with African American, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusions of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes
• Willingness to examine and remediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially minoritized students
• Ability to teach a second foreign language
• Recent community college teaching experience
• Demonstrated ability to develop a variety of teaching techniques and assessment methods
• Ability to engage student interest to support a variety of learning styles
• Ability to promote the use of instructional technology in curriculum delivery
• Related work and professional experience
• Experience in computer assisted instruction and other instructional technologies
• Ability to communicate effectively (oral and written) and maintain effective working relationships with students, faculty, staff, and administration
• Ability to develop new and current curriculum and focus on student learning outcomes to improve student learning
• Experience working with students of various ages, cultural, economic and education backgrounds
• Preparation for and interest in teaching community college students
• Potential for contribution to institutional vitality and growth
• Knowledge of the community college and its mission and goals

Salary and Benefits

Starting rates are $47.31 – $64.25 for lecture and $40.22 – $54.65 for lab. Sick leave accrual is based on assignment hours.