Rolling Application: High School Equivalency (HSE) Adult Education In

About the role

Indy Reads seeks to create a pool of experienced, part-time instructors available to teach classes for future openings in our Community Classrooms program. Classes are delivered both virtually and in person during the week. Class timeframes include mornings, afternoons, or evenings.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Create a comfortable and positive learning community
• Evaluate and respond to individual student needs
• Lead students in a multi-level classroom
• Design in-depth instruction to improve students' abilities to read and understand varied text
• Coordinate tutors to maximize differentiation
• Retain students by ensuring instructional content is relevant to individual specific adult students’ lives and goals
• Provide ABE activities and instruction across a continuum, from pre and basic literacy through elementary levels
• Write individualized lesson plans (ILPs)
• Develop reading and writing instruction that is responsive to the diverse needs, interests and goals of our students
• Use appropriate and varied instructional approaches supported by research for the following areas, comprehension, fluency, critical thinking, motivation, vocabulary, integrated writing, phonological processing development, etc.
• Administer appropriate assessments to identify, monitor progress, and measure effectiveness of intervention practices and students’ responses to instruction
• Support students’ ability to succeed in a high school equivalency exam prep
• Communicate assessment results and effective strategies to staff in digital platforms
• Provide instruction for students to learn career and college planning including establishing short-term and long-term goals
• Additional instruction on employment and training awareness, career and college readiness, and transition skills
• Train and Meetings: Plan collaboratively with Instructional Team Lead and other instructors to implement high-leverage learning strategies
• Professional Development workshops will be held quarterly
• Meet consistently with Instructional Team Lead and fellow literacy team instructors to strengthen professional teaching knowledge and to stay current with professional literature, including the latest research on promising practices for adult literacy
• Uses existing technology effectively in the performance of duties
• Performs other work as required

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field required. Educator license or degree preferred.
• Minimum two years classroom instruction experience
• Experience working with students with learning differences and/or working with adults
• Ability to facilitate Math learning through Algebra and Geometry level
• Must have reliable transportation
• Proficiency with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office Suite, Office 365, Asana, Slack, and other tools
• Ability to work well as part of a team within a culturally diverse environment with people from all backgrounds and with varying degrees of experience and skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
• Curious, open, and dedicated to participating in Indy Reads’ journey to advance DEIA
• Commitment to the mission of Indy Reads
• A sense of humor

Benefits

Indy Reads offers a 401(k) and 3% company match to part-time staff.