DSP&S Instructor; Part-Time Faculty Pool Community College

This is a part-time position. Open until filled. Start dates may vary.

Announcement Information

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Title

Title DSP&S Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool) Madera Community College

Campus Location

Campus Location Madera Community College

Start Date

Essential Functions of Position

The ideal candidate will share Madera Community College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. We currently enroll over 7,000 students in which 68% identify as Latinx, 1% as Filipino, 8% as Asian, 3% as Black/African American, 18% as White, 1% as American Indian/Alaska Native, and 3% as multiracial. 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 department dedicated to the use of curriculum responsive to the students it serves.
The instructor will perform the following:

• Utilize resources to develop and implement Developmental Services course curriculum in alignment with the approved course outline of record.
• Engage with and provide specialized instruction to students with disabilities.
• Monitor and track students’ academic performance in courses being taught according to campus requirements and guidelines.
• Participate in assessment of student learning objectives for each course being taught to improve student learning.
• Maintain confidential records; accurately record and complete data entry of information needed to complete mandated reports and service records.
• Serve as an advocate for students with disabilities and work with counselors, faculty and other college staff and community resources to assist students in the pursuit of their educational goals.
• Participate in professional development activities, program development and review activities.
• Assignments may include Monday through Friday; some evenings and Saturdays may be required.
• And otherwise fulfilling all of the duties and responsibilities of instructors as required by Administrative Regulation 7122.

Minimum Qualifications

• Possession of a master’s degree,
  or equivalent foreign degree, in the category of disability, special education, psychology, educational psychology, or rehabilitation counseling;
  AND
• Fifteen (15) semester units of upper division or graduate study in the area of disability, to include, but not limited to:
  • Learning disabilities;
  • Developmental disabilities;
  • Deaf and hearing impaired;
  • Physical disabilities; or
  • Adapted computer technology;
• A valid California Community College Credential;
  OR
• The equivalent education and/or experience (requires an equivalency).
  All applicants 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.

Desirable Qualifications

• Include experience counseling with students in college level disabled students programs;
• Experience working with students of various cultural backgrounds;
• Experience and skill incorporating elements of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all areas of responsibility;
• Recent experience working with African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Native American, and other racially minoritized students in the classroom, and an understanding of how historical patterns of exclusion of these groups in higher education shape patterns of participation and outcomes;
• Willingness to examine and remediate one’s instructional, relational, and classroom practices to more effectively engage and support racially…