"Part-Time Instructor, Spanish"

Job Description

Chabot College

Hayward, CA

Part-Time Instructor, Spanish

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

Start Date: Fall 2025
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Location: Chabot College, 25555 Hesperian Blvd., Hayward, CA 94545

Job Summary

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District is seeking a Part-Time Instructor, Spanish 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 Spanish 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 in-person, hybrid, and online 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 diverse students, faculty and staff, and the community;
3. Experience teaching with Open Educational Resources and online pedagogical platforms.

Physical Demands and Working Environment

Individuals with disabilities who are unable to carry out the physical activities of the position will receive reasonable accommodations to enable them to perform the essential functions of the positions.

Notification to Applicants

The Chabot-Las Positas Community College District reserves the right to close or not fill any advertised position. 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 Spanish in each of these modalities: in-person, hybrid, and online. Please specify how you adapted your teaching to these challenges. Please limit your discussion to 250 words. Submit two versions: one in English and the same in Spanish.
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 NAC ES members to obtain evaluations.)
5. Part-Time Faculty Application (Application procedures also included.) PTFacApp.pdf PTFacAppProcedures.pdf

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

Special Instructions to Applicants The Board of Trustees has updated Board Policy 7330 to incorporate information on COVID vaccination requirements, which are currently suspended. Accordingly, employee(s) must comply with the Board Policy found at: BP7330.pdf.