[Hiring] Early Education Online Adjunct @GARDEN CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Role Description

Garden City Community College is seeking part-time remote Instructors who are passionate about connecting with students and helping them to explore their worlds through learning. The college's values include Bold Innovation with a Student-Centered Focus, and successful candidates will demonstrate a history of these concepts in their teaching.

Instructional Technologies:

• This position is completely remote.
• Garden City Community College uses Canvas by Instructure as the Learning Management System.
• All online instructors have access to:
  • Canvas
  • Canvas Arc/Studio
  • Microsoft Office 365
  • A licensed Zoom account for working with students
• Currently, GCCC has an institutional connection with Cengage Unlimited, allowing instructors to use Cengage texts that are free for students.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities:

• Teach assigned courses as specified in the schedule and course contract, including:
  • Preparation of course materials
  • Student interaction and assessment
  • Maintaining course-related institutional records based on established deadlines
• Part-time online faculty are assigned a content area mentor or liaison.

Preparation of Course Materials:

• Prepare course materials and lesson plans that move students beyond comprehension of material presented in the textbook toward application, analysis, and evaluation in an interactive learning environment.
• Deliver course content using a variety of teaching styles and provide interesting and engaging assignments that demonstrate the real-world applications of concepts covered.
• Provide students an approved syllabus that includes:
  • Department approved course objectives and learning outcomes
  • Teaching methodology
  • Attendance policies
  • Texts and readings
  • Assignments and deliverables
  • Timelines and evaluation criteria
• Use established expectations for teaching an online course to organize course materials, including syllabus, assignments, discussions, lecture videos, and materials, to Canvas prior to the start of term.
• Revise and update course content as needed.

Instructor and Student Interaction:

• Observe and evaluate student performance in meeting course objectives and learning outcomes through assignments, projects, discussions, or examinations; provide feedback in a timely manner on student progress.
• Be available for students by maintaining two online office hours per week.
• Interact directly with each student and facilitate student-to-student interaction.
• Participate in course retention initiatives, mainly through completing DropOut detective alerts if a student's participation or quality of work changes.
• Encourage students to submit course evaluations, review course evaluations when available, and use feedback to improve course delivery.

Instructor and Institution Interaction:

• Maintain records of enrollment and attendance, assessments, and grades; submit class certification rosters and student grades by GCCC established deadlines.
• Monitor e-mail for announcements, scheduling, official grade and enrollment communications, and reminders.
• Complete a course assessment report according to department guidelines and submit to the liaison at the end of each term.

Qualifications

• Prior online teaching experience preferred.
• Master's degree or higher within subject area of teaching, or Master's degree or higher not in the subject area and 18 hours of graduate credit hours in the area.
• For some technical disciplines, industry certifications and experience within the field related to a minimum of 4000 hours work in the career or technical field.

Requirements

• Salary: $700 per credit hour paid in equal installments.