Part-time Faculty English & Reading Instructors

Montgomery College•Rockville, MD

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

Montgomery College is accepting applications for part-time faculty members to teach English and Reading. The college seeks enthusiastic and dedicated teachers with professionalism, a strong commitment to students, and the ability to motivate and educate in an engaging manner. Applications are accepted on a continuous basis and reviewed periodically based on student enrollment needs. Part-time faculty are limited in the number of equivalent semester hours they can teach per semester and academic year. The role may also involve serving as an embedded academic coach to support students in rigorous college-level composition courses, helping them develop academic skills and access resources. This coaching role can be in-person or remote, involving group and/or individual sessions and ongoing communication to keep students on track.

Requirements

Master’s degree in English, Reading, Rhetoric, or a closely related field.
Proficiency with and ability to use the Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS) and other web-based instructional technology to facilitate learning in a web-enhanced environment.
Demonstrated experience teaching using a variety of delivery methods, online resources, and technology applications across the curriculum.
Demonstrated commitment to promoting belonging, inclusion, and multicultural competence in an educational and work environment and must be willing to contribute to the College’s strategic plan of inclusion.
Access to a personal computer with virus protection that can connect to the internet outside of the work location (i.e., office, classroom, college campus).
Must be eligible to work in the United States without a sponsor.

Nice To Haves

One or more years of community college English composition teaching experience.
Online or remote teaching experience, using Blackboard, Zoom, Collaborate Ultra, and/or other educational technology.
For degrees earned outside of the U.S., a copy of your education equivalency, conducted by a nationally recognized evaluation service, must be included in your application.
Employees must live in Maryland or a state where the College has payroll reciprocity (DC, VA, PA, WV, DE, MA).

Responsibilities

Teach English composition classes and support student success.
Teach a varied schedule of courses on campus or that may include day, night, weekend, and/or accelerated sections.
Some sections of college English may also be taught at local high schools.
Teach a variety of modalities, primarily in person but possibly also online.
Provide students detailed written and verbal feedback on their writing.
Grade and provide feedback to students in a timely manner to monitor student mastery and progress through a course.
Participate in general education assessment for selected English courses.
Complete required professional development training, which may include training in Blackboard and structured remote course delivery.
Follow guidelines from department chair and coordinators to ensure consistent content coverage and student experience across multiple sections of a course and to ensure that course objectives are met.
Communicate in a timely manner with students and with the course coordinators and department chair.
Meet established deadlines to submit student mid-term and final course grades.
Other duties as assigned by the department chair.
Serve as embedded academic coaches supporting the Achieving the Promise Academy, Montgomery College’s academic coaching program.
Empower students to reframe challenges, build on their strengths, and target areas for growth by embedding within course sections and partnering with the section’s instructional faculty to support students.
Serve within both remote and in-person modalities to hold group and/or individual coaching sessions outside of class and provide ongoing communication that nudges students to stay on track and access the resources they need to succeed.
Help students strengthen their understanding of critical concepts and complete their coursework.
Use a variety of teaching, tutoring, and coaching strategies to help students develop the academic skills, knowledge, attitudes, and habits that contribute to success in their composition class and in college more broadly.