Adjunct Instructor, Chinese

Adjunct Instructor, Chinese
Salt Lake Community College in Salt Lake City, UT

Type:
Adjunct/Part-Time

Salary: $1,056.00 Hourly

Logo Salary: $1,056.00 Hourly

Salary: $1,056.00 Hourly

Category:
World Languages and Literatures

Military

Location:

Various SLCC locations, UT

Job Type: Adjunct Contract

Job Number:

Division:
Student Affairs

Department:
Humanities and Languages

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Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States.

All employees are expected to maintain a permanent residence within the State of Utah as a condition of employment. New employees must provide a valid Utah residential address within 30 days of their start date.

Face-to-face position to teach first- and second-year Chinese courses with the potential to teach third- and fourth-year Chinese courses. We are looking for an adjunct to join our World Languages team to teach one or more sections a semester. The new instructor will be supported by our World Languages Coordinator. Our language courses are flipped, communicative, and active-learning-based. Cultural competence is necessary (e.g., how to navigate racial and sexual diversity in the target culture, including gender-neutral language).

Candidates need to be available to teach physically in the classroom on our Taylorsville Redwood Campus. Specific days and times are negotiable. Instructors are required to serve for a minimum of one hour a week at the Center for Languages as part of their teaching load.

This is a pooled position. The department reviews applications as positions become available. Pooled positions re-open every year. We encourage all interested to apply to re-posted adjunct positions.

This position is paid at $1,056 per instructional unit.

1) In accordance with SLCC policy, adjunct positions are offered on a semester-by-semester basis with no guarantee of continued employment.
2) Official transcripts are required for those who are offered employment within in 30 days of hire.

• 1. Become familiar with and abide by all college policies with immediate priority given to those policies that govern interactions with colleagues, staff, administrators, and departments throughout the organization.
• 2. Maintain professional etiquette in communications with students, staff, faculty, and administrators.
• 3. Provide appropriate and timely feedback for all assignments.
• 4. Return graded assignments in a timely fashion per department standards.
• 5. Maintain student attendance records (for Financial Aid purposes) and grades.
• 6. Conduct a variety of appropriate evaluations of student performance.
• 7. Inform students of progress-to-date periodically and assigns and submits grades by published deadlines.
• 8. Assist in maintaining a safe and mutually respectful instructional environment.
• 9. Prepare and submit incident reports to Dean of Student Services for inappropriate student behavior as defined by the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities Policy.
• 10. Ability to communicate effectively with a broad range of people with a variety of abilities and backgrounds, to maintain good working relationships across the College.
• 11. Ability to work with all groups from a variety of academic, socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds, and with community college students, faculty, and staff, including those with disabilities.

• 1) M.A. or Ph.D. in the target language (literature, linguistics, or culture), or a related language degree.
• 2) Native or near-native level of fluency in the target language.
• 3) Native or near-native level of fluency in English.
• 4) Experience or interest in teaching either online or livestream modes in addition to face-to-face.
• 5) Training in foreign language pedagogy and knowledge of best practices.

• 1) M.A. or Ph.D. in the target language (literature, culture, or linguistics) or a related language degree.
• 2) Native level of fluency in the target language, or a ranking of Advanced-Mid or higher as scored by an official Oral Proficiency Interview of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
• 3) Knowledge of decolonial studies…