Languages Adjunct Faculty

Overview

The World Languages Department is seeking adjunct instructors for a variety of day, evening, and online credit classes. Our instructors are passionate, knowledgeable, and dedicated. They enjoy working with our diverse population of adolescent and adult learners, and they are interested in professional development and growing as educators. We offer 12 languages:
American Sign Language, Arabic, Mandarin Chinese, French, German, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Persian, Russian, Spanish, and Turkish.

• Teaching assigned course hours each week
• Lesson planning
• Assessing regularly and giving timely feedback to students
• Completing required paperwork and maintaining accurate records, such as attendance and grades
• Delivering planned lessons in the classroom or online according to program standards
• Examining and remediating instructional, relational, and classroom practices to engage and support students from diverse, particularly minoritized, backgrounds
• Monitoring HCC email for program updates and information
• Attending required professional development and departmental meetings

Minimum education requirement is not specified in a separate line here; please refer to candidate qualifications as listed in the original posting.

Experience requirements are listed in the original posting. Please review the full job description for details.

• Master's degree or higher in a foreign language, linguistics, education, or a related field, or BA/BS in TESOL, linguistics, education, foreign language, English, or related field with teaching experience
• Background or experience teaching a language to non-native speakers

• Current pedagogical best practices in language teaching
• Knowledge of and ability to appraise the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic backgrounds of community college students
• Basic technology skills; familiarity with an LMS is beneficial
• Advanced, near-native, or native proficiency in the language you teach

Division:  and Learning (Div) - NEW

Department:  Studies LS - NEW

• Posting Number: NB080P
• Number of Vacancies: 7
• Best Consideration Date: 12/30/2025
• Job Open Date: 08/21/2022
• Job Close Date: (not listed)
• Continuous Recruitment? Yes

Pre-employment criminal background investigation is a condition of employment.

HCC is interested in all qualified applicants who are eligible to work in the United States. However, HCC will generally not sponsor applicants for work visas. Due to HCC policy, only employees living in states contiguous to Maryland are eligible for work at HCC and include Virginia, West Virginia, Washington DC, Pennsylvania. Candidates must live in the commutable area or willing to relocate at their own expense if offered the position because HCC does not offer relocation benefits.

Please complete the entire HCC Employment Application (Candidates will be evaluated on completing the college's application in full).

Howard Community College (HCC) is an Equal Employment Opportunity & Affirmative Action employer and values diversity within its faculty, staff and student population. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or protected veteran status. HCC understands that persons with specific disabilities may need assistance with the job application process and/or with the interview process.

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