Job Summary:

Adult Education (AE) Instructors scaffold students to become independent learners and to transition from tutorial support as they enter CCRI pathways. The CCRI Digital Skills instructor will provide digital literacy skill instruction to a manufacturing workforce onsite with a Pawtucket employer.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Integrated Education and Training (IET) Instructor for Corporate Language Training (26 hours per course)

• Provides foundational digital literacy skill instruction for incumbent workers.

Direct Instructions  4 hours / week

• Facilitate classes learning and practicing digital literacy skills contextualized to the workplace.
• Use best-practice approaches to facilitation including: Teaching the Skills that Matter & Northstar curricula.
• Determine students’ level of proficiency and adjust activities accordingly to meet the needs of English Language Learner, Adult Basic Education and Adult Secondary Education students.
• Explicitly define, model and support skills and attitudes necessary for lifelong learning, and facilitate self-directed learning enabling students to connect learning to their lives.
  

Class Prep/ Program Support 6 hours per course

• Collaborate with CCRI Adult Education team staff to deliver credit and non-credit programs integrating workforce training foundational academics & digital literacy skills.
• Conduct small group pre- and post- testing (digital).
• Collaborate with Adult Education team to evaluate and generate educational options for students.
• Support students to articulate education and training goals using current and relevant vocational information.
• Participate in adult education related professional development & training.

Technology

• Use digital platforms to work with students and with Adult Education team.
• Model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate and use information resources to support research and learning.

Other Responsibilities:

• Demonstrate a commitment to the philosophy and mission of a comprehensive community college.
• Work collaboratively in a diverse, inclusive and student-centered environment, with students of various learning styles, cultures, identities, and life-experiences.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• Familiarity with foundational digital skills
• Experience using Northstar DL for assessment.
• Experience motivating students in the learning process and understanding of differentiation and universal design
• Excellent interpersonal communications
• Knowledge and proficiency in Google G-Suite and/or Microsoft Office 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with digital skills curriculum
• Three years of experience working with adult students or adults with learning difficulties