Early Childhood Adjunct Faculty

Job Description

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D. Camp Community College is a small 2-year college located in Southeast Virginia. Campuses are located in Franklin and Suffolk, with a center in Smithfield. The college offers associate degrees, certificates, and career studies certificates in transfer and career/technical programs; credit and non-credit workforce services and training for businesses and industries; special interest classes for the community; and summer classes for youth through the Regional Workforce Development Center.

A dual enrollment program for high school students, online courses, and developmental studies classes are also available at the college.

Suffolk, Franklin, Smithfield, or online. May include work during the day, evening, or weekends. As needed by the institution during the academic year. Adjunct teaching responsibilities vary as needed by the institution. Individuals hired to teach courses in an adjunct capacity may only teach a total of 12 workload credits in each term (fall and spring) and 8 workload credits in the summer term.

• Teaching
  :
  Creating a learning environment that facilitates students’ acquisition of knowledge and skills in a subject. Teaching encompasses four components:
  Instructional Design, Instructional Delivery, Instructional Effectiveness, and Instructional Expertise.
• Scholarly and Creative Engagement
  :
  Engage in scholarly and/or creative activity, which may include conference attendance and presentation, participation in professional organizations, academic coursework, scholarly research and publications, and grant activity.
• Institutional Responsibility
  :
  Performing assigned or presumed duties according to one’s role at the college. These activities support and advance both the mission of the VCCS and the college to enhance the effective functioning of the college. Responsibilities include participating in the college’s development and evaluation plan for part-time teaching faculty; participating in required department, committee, and college meetings; adhering to college and VCCS policies;
  
  performing assigned duties; and maintaining a collegial working relationship with faculty and staff.
• Service
  :
  Quality participation and commitment to students, college and/or community organizations, which is an expectation of one’s activities as a professional educator. Activities in this domain are differentiated college representation, college citizenship, and community citizenship.

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree from a regionally accredited institution in Early Childhood Education or related field.
• Ability to design and implement curricula that align elements of student learning to the student’s educational goals.
• Ability to develop and adapt teaching and learning strategies to accommodate traditional and non-traditional students with diverse backgrounds and varied academic competencies.
• Knowledge of methods to effectively teach Early Childhood Education through various means of distance learning.
• Ability to learn and utilize various technologies for communication, organization of data, course materials, presentations, etc.
• Ability to use formative and summative assessment measures to evaluate and enhance student learning.
• Experience with proven teaching strategies that promote student success.
• Ability to effectively communicate orally and in writing for group or one-on-one settings.
• Commitment to stay current and continually improve knowledge and understanding of the discipline.

• Teaching experience
• Community college or four-year college teaching experience.
• Experience with alternative delivery methods to include online delivery, hybrid and Hyflex course options, content software, web-enhancements, etc.
• Willingness to incorporate AI into curriculum.
• Experience incorporating technology into education.

Between campuses as needed.

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, political affiliation, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or other non-merit factors.

The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer and complies with the Americans with Disabilities Acts (ADA and ADAAA), to provide reasonable accommodation to applicants in need of access to the application, interviewing, and selection processes when requested.

VCCS uses E-Verify to check employee eligibility to work in the United States. You will be required to complete an I-9 form and provide documentation of your identity for employment purposes.