Faculty, English Speakers of Languages

Faculty, English for Speakers of Other Languages
Austin Community College

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity asa community college, as reflected in our mission statement. Wepromote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes,to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

The ESOL Department (English for Speakers of Other Languages) at Austin Community College is designed to prepare non-native speakersfor success in reaching their educational and professional goals.

As a Faculty member, this role will be responsible to prepare and deliver coursework in engaging, innovative, and discipline-appropriate ways. This position will be to start in Fall
2027. Courses will be taught both face-to-face and via distance learning formats.

ESOL classes were created for degree-seeking students and for professionals who have completed degree programs in their nativecountries. Students can also improve their English skills for greater success in their career fields. Our program is designed todevelop academic-level proficiency and prospective students should have a basic understanding of English before enrolling in courses.

We offer four levels of classes, in four different skills (reading,writing, grammar and oral communication) ranging from highbeginning to advanced levels.

• Prepare and teach courses in the field of ESOL to amulticultural student population based on the department's approved course learning outcomes, utilizing a variety of instructional strategies appropriate to the needs of community college students and the standards of the discipline.
• Participate actively in departmental responsibilities and departmental governance, including curriculum review and revision,program review, assessment of student learning outcomes at thecourse and program level, and other departmental activities.
• Evaluate student progress and provide clear, timely feedback reflecting program learning outcomes and departmental expectations.
• Serve as a mentor to students in the ESOL program.
• Provide teaching and mentoring services to students in a manner which does not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex,sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability,age, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or other protected categories.
• Remain current in the field through a variety of professional development activities.
• Support division and department goals through active andcollegial engagement in decision-making and unit-level planning.
• Serve on college wide and departmental committees, councils,work groups, and task forces.
• Perform other related tasks as assigned by the department chair, dean, and/or associate vice chancellor, vice chancellor,executive vice chancellor.

• Demonstrated proficiency using computer applications, onlineresources, and other technologies for the classroom.
• Demonstrated proficiency using an online learning management system such as Blackboard to develop and build course content and perform administrative duties (posting office hours, syllabi,etc.)

• Appropriate use of the college's learning management system.
• Meet deadlines for attendance certification and submission offinal course…