Part-Time Instructor Pool-ESL; Noncredit

Responsibilities

Provide quality instruction, create and maintain an environment that emphasizes teaching and learning and encourages free discussion of ideas, interests, and issues. Primary duties of adjunct faculty members are related to curriculum and teaching. Provide integrated English language acquisition, English literacy, civics education, and College and Career Readiness skill instruction to students in non‑credit English as a Second Language courses in accordance with course outlines, semester schedules, and the college mission, which may include multilevel, day, evening, and weekend courses.

Plan lessons and prepare instructional materials including syllabus. Prepare and conduct student assessments. Apply classroom instruction to real‑life contexts. Utilize technology as part of classroom instruction to help develop language and digital literacy skills critical to successfully attaining employment and educational opportunities. Monitor student progress and modify approaches as needed for effectiveness.

Compensation:
The starting non‑credit adjunct rate from salary table 25 is $73.59 per hour – Lecture and $55.20 per hour – Lab. If you have an advanced degree, the rate is $76.73 per hour – Lecture and $57.54 per hour – Lab.

Demonstrate sensitivity in working with adult students of diverse racial, ethnic, linguistic, academic, and socio‑economic backgrounds, sexual orientation, and disabilities.

Candidates must possess the minimum qualifications for the discipline as approved by the California Community Colleges Board of Governors and defined in the Minimum Qualifications for Faculty and Administrators in California Community Colleges handbook.

Bachelor’s degree in teaching English as a second language or teaching English to speakers of other languages.

OR Bachelor’s degree in education, English, linguistics, applied linguistics, any foreign language, composition, bilingual/bicultural studies, reading, or speech; and a certificate in teaching English as a second language (TESOL), which may be completed concurrently during the first year of employment as a non‑credit instructor.

OR Bachelor’s degree with any of the majors specified in subparagraph (2) above; and one year of experience teaching English as a second language in an accredited institution; and a certificate in teaching English as a second language (TESOL), which may be completed concurrently during the first two years of employment as a non‑credit instructor.

OR possession of a full‑time, clear California Designated Subjects Adult Education Teaching Credential authorizing instruction in English as a second language. For a non‑credit course in citizenship, a bachelor’s degree in any discipline and six semester units in American History and institutions.

Possess a combination of education and experience that is at least the equivalent to all of the above.

• Online District Application form at
• Cover letter addressing the applicant’s experience and the desirable qualifications listed in this announcement.
• CV or Resume.
• Within the online application there is a required supplemental question on diversity. Committee members will review your answer as part of the screening process.
• Copy of an unofficial college/university transcript, which verifies minimum qualifications.
• If claiming equivalency, attach a separate statement in the “Documents Needed to Apply” section entitled “Equivalency” in the online application. The statement presents the basis for this claim and the evidence supporting it, e.g., transcripts, publications, or other documents.
• Foreign transcript:
  Transcripts issued outside the United States require a course‑by‑course analysis with an equivalency statement from an official U.S. certified transcript evaluation service verifying degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the U.S.