PT GED Basic Skills: Noncredit Instructor

Cerritos College•Norwalk, CA

15h

About The Position

The Noncredit Instructor teaches assigned classes in accordance with course outlines of record and college policies. The instructor supports student learning by providing opportunities for students to understand their progress, maintaining accurate enrollment, attendance, and academic records, and submitting required course materials and reports by published deadlines. Faculty must maintain current disciplinary knowledge and teaching practices, protect student confidentiality, and help maintain a safe learning environment. Faculty must be able to teach on campus or remotely as assigned. Assignments depend on sufficient funding and enrollment and may include day, evening, or weekend classes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in any social science, humanities, mathematics, or natural science discipline, or in liberal studies, as appropriate for the course.
Understanding of and sensitivity to the needs of students, community members, and employees from diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds.
Ability to teach on campus or remotely as assigned.
Ability to provide proof of California residency before employment.
Eligibility to work in the United States and willingness to sign the loyalty oath required by Government Codes 3100–3109.
Successful candidates must obtain fingerprints for a criminal history clearance through the California Department of Justice and pay the processing fee, provide an original Social Security card, and submit a TB Risk Assessment reviewed and signed by a health professional before employment.
Required educational degrees and training must be from regionally accredited colleges or universities; foreign transcripts must be evaluated by a NACES-certified agency.
Ability to meet the position’s physical demands, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Nice To Haves

Community college teaching experience in noncredit programs.

Responsibilities

Maintain currency with current information, concepts, laws, and ideas in the discipline and with best practices in teaching and learning.
Check mailbox, voicemail, and email regularly.
Complete the checkout form before leaving campus at the end of the academic term.
Maintain student confidentiality in accordance with regulations and Board Policy 5040.
Teach all assigned classes and scheduled class minutes unless excused under Board Policy.
If absence is necessary, notify the Instructional Dean or designee, or the Office of Academic Affairs if they are unavailable, in advance; prepare plans to maintain continuity of course content if a substitute is assigned.
Teach courses in accordance with course outlines of record.
Provide students opportunities to be aware of their progress.
Submit a syllabus for each class to the Division Office.
Maintain accurate enrollment, attendance, and academic progress records and submit them by published deadlines.
Submit end-of-session grades, supporting documentation, and attendance reports by published deadlines.
Submit required information about first-day, no-show students by published deadlines.
Submit textbook order information by published deadlines and ensure electronic texts or course packs meet the stated accessibility, access, and availability requirements.
Meet all classes during the final examination period and give final examinations at the scheduled time unless an exception is approved.
Retain corrected final examination papers for at least one year after the semester or summer term ends.
Maintain a safe learning environment in classrooms, laboratories, and other instructional spaces.
Allow the instructional manager and/or Instructional Dean to review assignments upon request.