Fire Instructor; Part-Time Faculty Pool First Responders Center

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Fire Instructor (Part-Time Faculty Pool)

First Responders Center Campus

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Career & Technology Center

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At Fresno City College, we value the ability to serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college. The successful candidate will be an equity-minded leader committed to student success achieved through collaboration with faculty, classified staff, administration, students, and community partners who are also dedicated to closing equity gaps.

An equity-minded individual is a person who:

Fresno City College seeks leaders who value placing the student at the center of everything we do, mentorship, and working in a collegial, collaborative environment. Leaders should be open and willing to participate in culturally relevant professional development that will help them prepare for the population of students who attend Fresno City College.

The ideal candidate will share Fresno City College’s commitment to educating its racially and socioeconomically diverse student population. Fresno City College is a Hispanic-Serving Institution, reflecting the great responsibility that the College has to the educational attainment and economic well-being of the surrounding community. The successful candidate will join a department dedicated to the use of curriculum responsive to the students it serves.

Under the general direction of the Director of the Fire Academy, the Fire Technology Instructor will provide instruction in Fire Technology in a variety of instructional settings and times, including evening and/or weekends, online or off-campus and large group instruction classes as needed. The instructor will be responsible for:

• Providing academic instruction to students through lecture, lab, or performance courses;
• Assessing and developing cognitive abilities, communication skills, and higher order thinking skills among students through appropriate assignments and activities in one-on-one, classroom, and distance mediated instructional settings;
• Advising and instructing students regarding programs of study, other institutions of higher education, lifelong learning resources, and effective study skills;
• Assessing student learning outcomes to improve student learning;
• Referring students to support services, programs, resources, and other professionals as appropriate;
• Observing and evaluating student performance in meeting course objectives and student learning outcomes through assignments, projects, discussions, and examinations;
• Providing feedback in a timely manner to student inquiries in class, online, or during established consultation office hours;
• Planning and organizing instruction according to approved course outlines and student learning outcomes to maximize student learning in alignment with department, college, and district goals;
• Implementing the student performance objectives as listed on the official course outline of record;
• Maintaining current, accurate records of course enrollment, attendance, student academic progress, course curriculum, and student learning outcomes;
• Preparing and submitting data and reports related to course and student progress in a timely manner;
• Maintaining standards of professional conduct and ethics appropriate to the professional position and currency in teaching fire technology;
• Communicating…