"Part-Time Instructor, Chinese"

Job Summary

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a Part-Time Instructor, Chinese for Chabot College. Applicants will be expected to provide instruction in integrated listening, speaking, reading, composition, and culture. The immersion approach to second-language learning is the desired approach for our world-language courses.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Teaching college-level Chinese courses in accordance with the American Council of Teaching Foreign Language's 5 C's and other current strategies for effective world language teaching;
2. Developing and delivering curricula for a diverse population of learners across several modalities, including Distance Education and hybrids that combine online and in-person instruction;
3. Flexible availability, including evening and weekend classes.

Minimum Qualifications

Masters in the language being taught OR Bachelors in the language being taught AND Masters in another language or linguistics OR the equivalent.

Evidence of understanding of and responsiveness to the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, racial and ethnic backgrounds of community college students, as these factors relate to the need for equity-minded practices within the classroom.

Applicants applying under the “Equivalent” provision must provide details that explain at time of application how their academic preparation is the equivalent of the degree listed above.

Desirable Qualifications

1. Effective usage of sole target language in the classroom;
2. Enthusiastic approach to working collaboratively with students, faculty and staff, and the community;
3. Living and/or travel experience in China;
4. Recent linguistic training in Chinese.

Salary

$2,075.12/CAH - $2,322.27/CAH Faculty Salary Schedule

Location

Chabot College, 25555 Hesperian Blvd., Hayward, CA 94545

Start Date

Fall 2025

Notification to Applicants

TO APPLY, please send the following application materials to the contact listed below:

1. Cover Letter
2. Resume
3. Supplementary Questionnaire: Discuss some particular challenges you faced in teaching Chinese on-campus, hybrid and/or online and how you adapted your teaching to it. Please limit your discussion to 250 words.
4. Transcripts (Un-officials accepted for application purposes; however, official copies must be submitted if hired. Any degrees earned outside of the United States must have a U.S. evaluation (course by course) of the transcripts and must be submitted with the application. Please use www.naces.org/members to obtain evaluations.)
5. Part-Time Faculty Application (Application procedures also included.) PTFacApp.pdf PTFacAppProcedures.pdf

Contact: Sienna Dalton | Email: sdalton@chabotcollege.edu | Phone: 510 723-6804 | Department: World Languages