Instructor, (SILP) Self Instructional Language Program

Joliet Junior College•Joliet, IL

21h•$50

About The Position

SILP Tutor-instructors are generally native speakers with experience in language teaching who bring to the classroom a wealth of cultural and linguistic knowledge. Their role is to provide communicative opportunities to the students, and to create a self-guided environment for students to work on their language learning.

Requirements

Native fluency in the language to be taught
Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with other members of the college and community, displaying cultural competence as well as emotional intelligence.
Demonstrated commitment to the college’s core values of respect and inclusion, sustainability, integrity, collaboration, humor and well-being, innovation and quality

Nice To Haves

Experience teaching the language to be taught or prior work experience in an educational environment.
English and Spanish verbal and written communication proficiency.
Demonstrated multicultural competence.

Responsibilities

Meet with students in small group sessions as assigned
Reinforce conversational skills through various language pattern drills
Drill dialogues and exercises (pre-learned by the students)
Correct students’ errors
Strengthen the comprehension ability of students when practicing conversational drills
Be a useful aid to the student in the study of the language