Job Description
Title: Intensive English Institute Instructor
Unit: Part-time MCCC Professional Staff
Department: Intensive English Institute
Reports to: Director, Intensive English Institute
Date: December 10, 2025 (Reposted February 4, 2026)
General Summary
The Intensive English Institute is an innovative department that provides alternative approaches through competency-based learning, in the area of English as a second language.
Duties and Responsibilities
Direct Teaching
- Provide instruction in-person using the Intensive English Institute methodology (a competency-based model with four-level sections) on campus beginning the first day of the semester and through final assessments
- Create a supportive learning environment utilizing current best practices and strategies for success
- Provide students with timely feedback and guidance for further learning
- Foster independent thinking, accuracy, and cooperative and collaborative learning
- Integrate the use of technology
- Remain dedicated to academic excellence and inclusivity, serving students of diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds
- Meet or exceed requirements established in course descriptions
- Prepare course syllabi, schedule of assignments, and lesson plans
- Address and assess the Institutional Student Learning Outcomes (ISLOs)
- Utilize and update current course LMS
- Use principles of Universal Course Design (UCD)
Administrative Duties
- Maintain and submit student records according to college and department policies
- Submit an electronic copy of syllabi to the department director each semester
Requirements
- Master's degree in English as a Second Language, Applied Linguistics, or TESOL with a minimum of two (2) years of teaching experience or Master's degree in Education with an English language teaching certificate in TESL or TEFL
- Ability to review, classify, categorize, prioritize, and/or analyze data
- Ability to inform and guide others by applying principles of professional counseling
- Ability to work collegially with team members
- Ability to utilize a wide variety of reference, descriptive, advisory, and/or design data and information
- Demonstrates a commitment to fostering a respectful, welcoming environment
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of MS Word, Blackboard Ultra LMS, and PC
- College or high school-level teaching experience is strongly preferred both in-person and online
- Bilingual skills a plus
Additional Information
Salary Range: $36.55 per hour
Location: Lowell campus with occasional travel to the Bedford campus as needed
Hours: 25 per week, Monday-Thursday, 9:00 -2:00 with prep time included in the 25 hours
Expected Start Date: January 2026
Application Deadline: This position will remain open until filled.
