Part-Time Dance Instructor (Pool)

FLSA Status: Exempt

Salary Schedule: Placement on the adjunct faculty salary schedule is based upon education and credited experience. Pending any course assignment, initial placement can range as follows: Lab Course (Salary Schedule HB) - $89.20 up to $130.94 per hour. Lecture Course (Salary Schedule AJ) - $103.85 up to $151.07.

Months Per Year: Semester assignments as needed

Mandated Reporter: Yes

Campus Security Authority: No

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Teach with significant ability in specific areas of dance: modern dance, choreography, hip-hop, and jazz dance
2. Maintain expertise in modern dance, choreography, hip-hop, and jazz dance
3. Collaborate with other dance faculty and create a team environment
4. Be involved in curriculum revisions and new dance course development
5. Be involved in the College Dance Performance organized at the end of each semester
6. Consult with students during regularly scheduled office and lab hours
7. Maintain expertise in technology, such as web-based educational platforms and digital media
8. Perform other professional duties as required by contract and general institutional needs
9. Contemporary Modern Dance: Teach fundamentals of contemporary modern dance technique. Emphasis is placed on developing body awareness, body alignment, musicality, and self-expression through movement. Students develop physical strength, flexibility, coordination, and increase movement memory. Dance combinations are taught sequentially, becoming more challenging and complex as the semester progresses and culminating in a group performance.
10. Dance Composition - Theory and Choreography: Provide students with basic skills and knowledge of the choreographic principles. Through discussion and practical experience, students develop a basic understanding of dance as a performing art form. Study of basic dance choreography to include construction of a phrase, structure, and form in a composition, and the basic elements of time, space, and energy.
11. Maintain expertise and teach with significant ability in specific areas of dance: Argentine Tango: Teach basic, intermediate, and/or advanced Argentine tango dance technique. Emphasis is placed on developing body awareness, body alignment, lead and follow, musicality, and self-expression through movement. Mexican Folkloric Dance: Teach the skills of Mexican Folkloric dance while improving students' technique, poise, self-confidence and creative ability as well as deepening their understanding of and appreciation for the rich and colorful heritage that each dance represents. Social Dance: Teach basic, intermediate, and/or advanced social dance vocabulary, technique, body placement, and musicality, lead and follow techniques and dance etiquette.

Employment Standards

Knowledge of:

1. Contemporary modern dance and choreography at the college or high school level, including successful experience in teaching or evidence of preparation to teach in the discipline
2. Argentine tango, Mexican folkloric dance, and/or social dance at the college or high school level, including successful experience in teaching or evidence of preparation to teach in the discipline
3. College coursework, professional dance studio, and workshops with a background in choreography

Skills and Abilities:

1. Evidence of two original choreographed dance performances at the regional and professional level (Submit a web-link of the choreographed dance work performed by students or yourself)
2. A minimum of four years of teaching and professional dance experience in the specific area: modern dance, Argentine tango, Mexican folkloric dance, and/or social dance
3. Teach various dance classes (hip hop, modern dance, choreography, Argentine tango, Mexican folkloric dance, and/or social dance)
4. Motivation, energy, enthusiasm, and a commitment to excellence in teaching
5. Willing to choreograph and encourage students to participate in the Dance Performance organized toward the end of the semester
6. Communicate effectively and work cooperatively with other dance instructors in a team environment
7. Computer skills, including writing reports, word processing, creating presentations, spreadsheets, and using database applications
8. Willing to work with students with a wide range of skills, varying abilities, motivations, and academic or career goals
9. Use instructional strategies designed for diverse learning styles and academic goals, including using online resources and materials
10. Develop curriculum, utilize student learning objectives, create assessment plans, validate results, and modify curriculum based on those results
11. A commitment to the teaching profession, its goals and ideals, and enthusiasm for the community college mission
12. Use teaching methods emphasizing cooperation and collaboration and engaging students actively in their studies, encouraging them to become critical thinkers and independent learners
13. Teach diverse groups of students, including skill and experience in motivating students from a broad spectrum of academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA+ backgrounds

Job Requirements:

Master's or above in dance, physical education with a dance emphasis, or theater with dance emphasis, OR Bachelor's in any of the above AND Master's or above in physical education, any life science, physiology, theater arts, kinesiology, humanities, performing arts, or music OR the equivalent. Demonstrated cultural competence, sensitivity to, and understanding of the diverse academic, socioeconomic, ethnic, neurodivergent, and LGBTQIA+ backgrounds of community college students, faculty, and staff as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practice both within and outside of the classroom.

Additional Information: Position is designated as a Mandated Reporter under the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act. Position is a Responsible Employee under the Equity in Education Act and Title IX. Benefits: Academic employees participate in the State Teachers' Retirement System (STRS), a defined-benefit retirement plan through the State of California or they may choose to participate in the STRS Cash Balance program or Social Security.