History Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Madera Community College at Oakhurst

State Center Community College District; Oakhurst (CA); Hybrid; USD 30,000 - 54,000; Part time

Job summary

Madera Community College at Oakhurst is seeking qualified applicants for a part-time History Instructor pool. The college emphasizes equity-minded leadership and collaboration across faculty, staff, students, and community partners to close equity gaps.

Ideal candidates will contribute to a culturally responsive learning environment and demonstrate commitment to student success in a Hispanic-serving institution serving a diverse regional community.

Qualifications

• Equity-minded practices and understanding of diverse student backgrounds required.
• Commitment to student success through collaboration with faculty, staff and community partners.

Responsibilities

• Teach a part-time schedule of History courses as assigned.
• Use diverse teaching methods and technology for face-to-face, online, and hybrid formats.
• Communicate effectively with students, faculty and staff.
• Adhere to curriculum outlines and course objectives.
• Evaluate student progress via tests, assignments, and oral responses.
• Provide course syllabi and maintain accurate classroom records.
• Submit grades and evaluations in a timely manner.
• Handle various teaching assignments and other duties as assigned.

Job description

History Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Madera Community College at Oakhurst

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Continuous Recruitment
This posting has been created to establish an applicant pool for part-time faculty positions. Applications will be reviewed by members of the hiring department when vacancies arise.

Announcement Information

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Title

Title History Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Madera Community College at Oakhurst

Campus Location

Campus Location Madera Community College at Oakhurst

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Essential Functions of Position

At Madera Community College we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An equity-minded individual is a person who:

• Understands the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• Reframes inequities as a problem of practice and views the elimination of inequities as an individual and collective responsibility;
• Encourages positive race-consciousness and embraces human difference;
• Supports institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments; and
• Strategically builds support for and participation in equity-related initiatives across both our internal and external communities.

Madera Community College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Madera Community College.

The ideal candidate will share Madera Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. Madera 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. The successful candidate will join a college dedicated to the students it serves.

Providing instruction in History on the Madera Community College at Oakhurst Campus and/or at off-site community campus locations, the instructor will be responsible for:

• Teaching a part-time schedule of History courses as assigned;
• Using a variety of pedagogies and integrating a wide range of instructional delivery systems including innovative and creative uses of technology for face-to-face, on-line, and/or hybrid formats;
• Communicating effectively with students, faculty and staff;
• Using effective teaching methods appropriate to the subject matter, adherence to institutionally approved curriculum course outlines of record;
• Evaluating student progress through tests and examinations, written assignments, oral responses, etc. in keeping with course objectives;
• Providing course syllabi to students;
• Maintaining classroom records in accordance with District Policy;
• Turning in all required student grading and evaluation reports in a timely manner;
• Teaching assignments in a variety of instructional settings and times, including classes as needed;
• Otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122; and
• Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

All candidates must have evidence of responsiveness to and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practice within the classroom; and