Adult Basic Education Instructor for Corrections - Adjunct @ WITC Rice Lake Campus/Barron County Jail

Position Overview

The qualified candidate will provide Adult Basic Education instruction to Barron Co. Jail - visiting two times per week. This position is responsible for providing instruction to individuals seeking high school (GED/HSED) credentials, employability skills, reading, writing, math, and success strategies. 

Key Responsibilities

• Model core abilities that reflect WITC’s mission, vision, values and Learning College tenets by:
  • Assessing own learning and progressing toward established personal and professional goals.
  • Demonstrating creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
  • Communicating effectively in personal and group settings.
  • Contributing to a diverse, respectful, and inclusive working and learning environment.
  • Effecting change and demonstrating flexibility and positive leadership.
  • Acquiring and applying technology to working and learning.
• Develop and continually revise curriculum that includes Employability Essentials and technical content to meet industry and/or regulatory standards.
• Plan for instruction, including syllabi development, learning plans, and assessment strategies.
• Deliver, assess, and adapt effective instruction that meets the diverse needs of students.
• Apply a variety of instructional strategies, create learning plans, facilitate learning, and revise teaching practice.
• Promote a culture of continuing student success, implement strategies to promote learner persistence and meet the needs of multi-generational learners, demonstrate learner-centered communication, and utilize available student support services.
• Create performance-based assessment plans, employ a variety of formative and summative assessment strategies, communicate assessment results in a timely fashion to promote student learning, and use assessment results to improve instruction.
• Demonstrate professional behaviors to support teaching and learning and utilize varied strategies for managing the learning environment.
• Identify exit learning outcomes and external standards, develop competencies that describe intended learning outcomes, create performance-based plans and assessment tasks for each course, develop learning objectives and plans, prepare syllabi, and utilize a quality review process to validate curriculum.
• Utilize a variety of data analysis tools, analyze data from teaching and learning experiences, and use data to inform decision making about the teaching and learning process.
• Assess effectiveness in embracing diversity, examine the impact of college, community, and student demographics on teaching and learning, and create an inclusive, effective learning environment that addresses barriers and provides reasonable accommodations.
• May be assigned to mentor high school teachers who offer WITC-articulated courses.
• Model the Employability Essentials expected of WITC students, which are to communicate clearly, think critically, and demonstrate professionalism.
• Designated as a Campus Security Authority (CSA) to receive and report criminal incidents to the WITC Safety Office by virtue of this role’s responsibilities at the College (only applies to instructor positions with club advising duties).
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Physical Requirements

Exerting up to 10 lbs. of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sitting most of the time. Walking and standing required only occasionally.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education, Secondary Education, Adult Education or Special Needs Education, OR Bachelor's degree with DPI certification in any area taught at Elementary or Secondary Education levels, AND a total of 3 credits of Reading Instruction and/or Teaching methods or any combination thereof.
• Meet applicable requirements established by the higher learning commission and federal and state licensing requirements prior to the date of appointment.
• A minimum of 2 years (4,000 hours) of occupational experience in the instructional area for the program or programs being taught of which at least 1 year (2,000 hours) shall be within 5 years prior to the date of appointment.
• One year (2,000 hours) of related occupational experience may be waived if the occupational instructor has at least 2 years of post−secondary teaching experience in the appropriate occupational field within 5 years prior to the date of appointment. Two years of post−secondary teaching experience is equivalent to 8 semesters of part−time teaching or 4 semesters of full−time teaching at an accredited post−secondary degree granting institution.
• Ability to learn and use new technology to enhance teaching and learning.
• Ability to work non-standard hours including evening and weekend hours.
• Willing to teach in a variety of learning environments including face-to-face, online, web-conferencing, and hybrid classrooms.
• Ability to obtain driver’s license and insurance coverage in accordance with College policy.

Preferred Qualifications

• Background in educational diagnosis, assessment, and instructional methodology for the full range of unique learner needs.
• Master's degree in above areas.
• Experience working with at-risk adult students.
• Experience working with corrections populations.

Salary

$44.00/ hour non-FQAS completion

$49.00 / hour FQAS completion

Benefits

N/A

More detailed information online at https://www.witc.edu/about-witc/employment/benefits