Senior Learning Specialist; MassLINKS Humanities Instructor

Position: Senior Learning Specialist (MassLINKS Full Time Humanities Instructor) - Mount Wachusett Community College
Job Description:

General Statement of Duties:

The MassLINKS Full-Time Humanities Instructor designs and delivers remote instruction exploring the intersection of the Arts, Social Justice, and the Human Experience designed to build literacy and critical analysis skills necessary for college and career success.

This position delivers remote synchronous and asynchronous group instruction to adult learners preparing them for the literacy and Social Studies sections of either high school equivalency test approved in Massachusetts (HiSET or GED). The MassLINKS Full-Time Humanities Instructor keeps written lesson plans and aligns all instructional activities to the program curriculum, College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education and C3 Framework for Social Studies Standards.

The Adult Education Humanities Instructor works cooperatively with program staff and administration to ensure students make appropriate academic progress. As such, the MassLINKS Full-Time Humanities Instructor reviews diagnostic assessment results to inform instructional planning and delivers formative assessments to measure student learning and progress. The MassLINKS Full-Time Humanities Instructor implements research-based instructional practices designed to accelerate learning and progress students along a regionally relevant career pathway toward post secondary enrollment and/or employment.

Instructors collaborate with personnel at MWCC and Community Colleges statewide, the MassHIre North Central Career Center and Career Centers statewide, and regional and statewide partner agencies to ensure students are connected to all supports needed to enhance their success and prepare them for successful transition to post-secondary enrollment and/or the workplace.

Responsibilities:?

* Provide rigorous remote academic instruction in the arts, social justice, and the human experience;

* Implement evidence-based instructional practices as part of course design and delivery;

* Conduct diagnostic, formative, and summative assessments to inform instructional design and delivery and to measure student learning;

* Maintain appropriate student data including proof of academic progress and samples of completed work and utilize that data to increase access to curriculum and design individualized learning opportunities for students as necessary;

* Participate in student progress team meetings with colleagues (administration, other instructors, etc.);

* Arrive at least ten minutes prior to the beginning of class and stay until completing scheduled learning activities;

* Include within the established curriculum, the development of a comprehensive education and career plan that includes a review of local labor market data and education and training opportunities in the priority industries within their region;

* Deliver instruction in college and workplace readiness;

* Contextualize instruction to include industry specific content where appropriate for course content and course assignment;

* Maintain electronic copies of weekly instructional plans aligned to the program's curriculum and the College and Career Readiness Standards for Adult Education. Plans must be available for review by administration at the request of the President's Designee, or funders;

* Increase knowledge and awareness of postsecondary education and employment opportunities within the priority industries of Massachusetts as identified by the Workforce Skills Cabinet Blueprint;

* Attend all supervisor and program wide meetings (in person or virtual) as scheduled by the President's Designee, or funder;

* Participate in regularly scheduled curriculum development and program improvement activities as assigned by the the President's designee;

* Engage in common planning time with peers offering the opportunity for collegial exchanges of ideas and the development of creative and engaging lessons;

* Work in collaboration with program on developing and/or implementing multi-year strategic plan aligned to WIOA, State, Local, and Institutional priorities;

* The Full-Time Humanities Instructor will maintain certifications in National Reporting System (NRS) Assessments required by the Adult and Community Learning Services (ACLS) unit of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) for Adult Education Courses assigned to the position;

* Administer NRS Assessments to students in compliance with ACLS Assessment Policies;

* Effectively utilize technology to enhance student learning and increase student progress. The MassLINKS Full-Time Humanities Instructor will utilize Google Classroom to deliver content and assignments to students;

* The MassLINKS Full-Time Humanities Instructor will provide timely and authentic feedback to students through a variety of ways including digital feedback through the learning management system used by the program (Google Classroom);

* Conduct remote student classroom sessions utilizing video conferencing technology (Zoom);

* The Full-Time Humanities…