Hudson County Community College
Instructor English as a Second Language (ESL), Tenure-track (Two Vacancies)
Office: Humanities and Social Sciences
Reporting To: Dean Humanities and Social Sciences
Jersey City, New Jersey
Salary Grade: INSTRUCTOR (Starting $60,494)“Hudson is Home”“Hudson is Home”is about our people. Hudson County Community College truly cares about our faculty, staff, students and community. At HCCC, you will be respected, supported, and valued! Our caring, collaborative, and diverse culture is what defines us and together we can and will achieve our dreams!
Our Perks
HCCC provides full-time employees with a strong, comprehensive benefits package that includes: Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, Retirement Plans, and up to $9,000 per year invested in your professional development. Additionally, we also offer employee assistance programs, flexibles spending accounts, flexible hybrid schedules (depending on the position), employee discount marketplace, auto and home insurance discounts and more.
About This Role
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences is seeking two Tenure-track, English as a Second Language Instructors.The instructor is responsible for guiding undergraduate students towards English language proficiency. The Instructor will develop new courses in emerging and innovative areas in alignment with other departments, programs, and initiatives of the College. Candidates should also demonstrate sensitivity to issues of diversity and have the ability to motivate and teach students of diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, sexual orientations, genders, cultures, and learning styles, as well as students with disabilities, or varied levels of academic preparation. The instructor will be an advocate for access to higher education, particularly for first-generation and immigrant students. The successful candidate will preferably have an understanding of and a commitment to the role of community colleges in higher education.
THE ROLE:
Under the supervision of the Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the Instructor of ESL is responsible for teaching 15 credits per semester of day, evening, and weekend classes in ESL. The Instructor will participate in School activities such as curriculum development and academic advisement; and contribute to the College community through committee work and other activities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Use a multitude of strategies to create a learning environment that fully embraces and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in the classroom.
- Utilize Immersive Telepresence Video (ITV) and other instructional media which contribute to effective teaching.
- Advise and mentor students in support of the College’s mission.
- Provide effective feedback on student assignments.
- Assist in course and program assessment.
- Integrate Open Educational Resources (OER), computer-assisted instruction, laboratories and library/learning resources into classroom instruction.
- Prepare and distribute to students and submit to the Dean an outline for each assigned course section indicating the course description and requirements, textbooks, OER, and supplementary materials, assignments, test dates, grading and attendance policies.
- Maintain a record of student attendance and grade roster for each assigned course section. Submit midterm and final grade rosters and attendance records by the required dates.
- Maintain office hours at times appropriate for both day and evening students.
- Refer to Advisement, students in assigned classes who miss two consecutive sessions. Maintain ongoing contact with academic support services personnel and refer students for tutoring, organized study groups, and counseling as appropriate.
- Resolve, with the assistance of the Dean or program coordinator, any student issues.
- Assist the Dean and program coordinator with the preparation of course schedules, development and/or review of curricula.
- Assist with accreditation activities, articulation with upper division institutions and advisory committees as appropriate.
- Participate in School, College-wide meetings, committees and professional development activities.
- Participate in the process of shared governance by contributing to the academic community through committee work.
- Minimum of Master’s degree in Teaching English to Speakers of other Languages (TESOL), Applied Linguistics, Second Language Acquisition (SLA), Bilingual Education, Urban Education (specialization in ESL) or a closely related field.
- Minimum of two years of college-level teaching experience.
- Demonstrated ability to interact with a culturally diverse population and effectively and respectfully function and communicate within the context of varying beliefs, behaviors, orientations, identities, and cultural backgrounds.
- Demonstrated ability to design assessments and use assessment data to inform assessment revision, course design, or program development.
- Demonstrated experience using instructional technology (i.e. LMS, Spark) in classroom and online adaptations, and a willingness to adopt new and emerging technologies.
- Strong interpersonal and oral/written communication skills.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Doctoral degree (Ph.D. or Ed.D.) in a related discipline
- Extensive experience teaching in high-needs EAP contexts, including instruction to true beginners across all skills and low-advanced writing and grammar
- Bilingual proficiency in English and Arabic or Spanish
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OVERVIEW:
HCCC serves one of the most ethnically diverse and densely populated communities in the United States. The College is a vibrant, urban institution of higher education whose mission is to provide its diverse communities with inclusive, high-quality educational programs and services that promote student success and upward social and economic mobility.
The School of Humanities and Social Sciences offers a distinctive Associate of Fine Arts degree program with options in Studio and Computer Art. Throughout their time at HCCC, Fine Arts students participate in many opportunities offered through the Department of Cultural Affairs. HCCC’s Fine Arts faculty exhibit their work nationally and internationally and have received awards from The New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowship and the Guggenheim Fellowship and ACCT Northeast Faculty Member Award. Faculty in the School have also been recognized with the 2019 and 2020 Dale P. Parnell Faculty Distinction Recognition from the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC). HCCC is the recent recipient of a $3 million, five-year Title V grant from the United States Department of Education. The Grant Project, titled The Golden Door/La Puerta Dorada, promotes persistence and retention of English as a Second Language (ESL) students. The Golden Door/La Puerta Dorada specifically focuses on serving Hispanic and Latino students.
