POSITION TITLE: SILP (“Self-Instructional Language Program”) Tutor-instructor

STATUS: Part Time

DEPARTMENT: English, Philosophy, and World Languages

DIVISION: Arts

CLASSIFICATION: Adjunct Non-Union

REPORTS TO: Department Chair, English, Philosophy, and World Languages

HIRING RANGE: $50/hour

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The student population at the college is diverse in ethnicity, gender, language, age and background. Joliet Junior College is an AA/EO employer and strongly encourages applications from candidates who would enhance the diversity of its staff

POSITION SUMMARY

SILP Tutor-instructors are generally native speakers with experience in language teaching who bring to the classroom a wealth of cultural and linguistic knowledge. Their role is to provide communicative opportunities to the students, and to create a self-guided environment for students to work on their language learning.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Meet with students in small group sessions as assigned
2. Reinforce conversational skills through various language pattern drills
3. Drill dialogues and exercises (pre-learned by the students)
4. Correct students’ errors
5. Strengthen the comprehension ability of students when practicing conversational drills
6. Be a useful aid to the student in the study of the language

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

1. Native fluency in the language to be taught
2. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with other members of the college and community, displaying cultural competence as well as emotional intelligence.
3. Demonstrated commitment to the college’s core values of respect and inclusion, sustainability, integrity, collaboration, humor and well-being, innovation and quality

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

1. Experience teaching the language to be taught or prior work experience in an educational environment.
2. English and Spanish verbal and written communication proficiency.
3. Demonstrated multicultural competence.

BENEFITS
No Benefits

Full Time/Part Time:Part time

Union (If Applicable):

Scheduled Hours:20