Careers Job Description
General Description
The Pre-College Academic Programming Department (www.laguardia.edu/pcap) is seeking two part-time Math Instructors, who will teach morning and evening sections of our math courses for HSE students preparing for college. These positions are grant-funded and their appointment will end on October 1, 2018. PCAP’s mission is to support low income adults and out-of-school youth as they apply to college, matriculate, and persist through their first year at LaGuardia Community College.
Part-Time Math Instructor
Our part-time Math Instructors will be responsible for teaching our winter and summer College Prep Math courses as well as our spring and fall Math Immersion courses. The latter are designed to help prepare adult learners for the Math section of the TASC exam so that they may earn their high school equivalency diploma; the former classes are designed to help HSE students place out of remedial math courses on the CUNY CAT exam. Both courses are important in students’ preparation for matriculation. These two part-time positions will be responsible not only for teaching pre-college and pre-HSE math students using an innovative and interactive contextualized curriculum, but will also monitor student progress during the course and tutor as needed. There will be approximately 6 hours of instruction per week, plus 2 hours of paid prep and meeting time.
Other Duties
Work will include a variety of instructional and assessment duties including the following:
- Deliver instruction to pre-college students and pre-HSE students for up to 10 hours per week
- Provide support services for students experiencing mathematics difficulties
- Evaluate students for strengths and weaknesses in mathematics, particularly as they related to the CAT and TASC exams
- Provide appropriate instructional interventions for identified students
- Meet with the course coordinator to update her on student progress
- Tutor students as needed within available hours
- Other related duties as assigned
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree Required. Master’s degree in mathematics, secondary mathematics, education, adult education or related field preferred.
- Minimum 3 years teaching experience in adult education, secondary or postsecondary education classrooms
- Familiarity with the CAT and TASC Math Exams
- Strong conceptual understanding across mathematics, including, but not limited to: mathematical thinking, arithmetic, college algebra, geometry and statistics
- Demonstrated understanding and use of inquiry-based and constructivist pedagogies
- Demonstrated use of interdisciplinary approach to math instruction, including, problem centering, contextualizing and other strategies
- A minimum of two years’ experience and demonstrated skill in improving students’ mathematic skills and reasoning
- Experience working as a member of a project team or department that includes, but is not limited to: teachers, faculty, support professionals and administrators
- A commitment to supporting college readiness & success for underserved students; an understanding of college access and transition issues
- Ability and skill to motivate and lead non-traditional learners to persist and thrive in new collegiate and academic environment
- Experience working with a diverse adult or out-of-school youth student population, preferably in a higher education setting.
To apply, submit a resume, cover letter and a sample of a recent lesson or unit plan designed to develop students’ mathematics skills. Applicants should upload the cover letter and work sample as one attachment.
RFCUNY Benefits
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The Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY) is a nonprofit educational corporation founded in 1963 to provide post-award fiscal and administrative support for CUNY’s research and sponsored programs. RFCUNY’s services allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries, on projects and programs that serve our local and global communities, proposing concrete solutions to society’s most pressing challenges.
RFCUNY serves as a fiscal agent and works closely with all the CUNY campus Grants Offices to perform the core functions of post-award financial management for CUNY research projects and sponsored programs. These functions include legal assessment and signing of agreements where RFCUNY is named as a fiscal agent; setting up award accounts; preparing sub-awards and assisting PIs in monitoring the work of the recipients of sub-awards; supporting project directors with hiring and managing research project and sponsored program staff; supporting the purchasing and paying for goods and services with grant and program funds; managing financial aspects of projects including accounts receivable, financial reporting, invoicing, budget monitoring, and cost compliance with uniform guidance; ensuring that sponsor financial requirements are met; monitoring compliance with applicable project and financial management rules and laws; supporting the management of independent and external audits and financial reviews; and providing data, information, management expertise, and other supports to CUNY’s research and sponsored programs.
Equal Employment Opportunity Statement
Key Features
Division of Adult and Continuing Educati
Part Time
$40.00-$40.00
8.00
Jan 20, 2018 (Or Until Filled)