Child Development Instructor

Glendale Community College seeks individuals who are equity-minded leaders, committed to student success and closing equity gaps, to apply for its Full‑Time Tenure‑Track Child Development Instructor position. GCC seeks instructors who value placing our students at the center of everything we do, including mentorship and working in a collegial, collaborative learning environment. We prioritize applicants who demonstrate they understand the benefits a diverse student population brings to a community college.

GCC is committed to hiring a faculty member who exemplifies equity‑focused behaviors such as:

• encouraging positive race‑consciousness and embracing of human differences;
• strategically building support for and participation in equity‑related initiatives across both our internal and external communities;
• promoting the importance of holding ourselves accountable as educators for closing equity gaps and engaging in equitable practices;
• supporting institutional practices that both develop and sustain culturally responsive teaching and learning environments.

The successful candidate will join a college dedicated to the students it serves. We are proud to be a designated Hispanic‑Serving Institution (HSI). We serve students from a broad range of cultural heritages, socioeconomic backgrounds, genders, abilities, and orientations, and we actively work to build and sustain a welcoming environment for all. We especially encourage individuals who bring perspectives from lived experiences that our students from underrepresented groups at GCC will connect to and uniquely benefit from in their learning journey at our college.

This is a full‑time, tenure‑track classroom teaching assignment in the Division of Social Sciences. The current teaching load is 15 instructional hours per week. Members of the full‑time faculty will hold five office hours per week and are expected to devote as much time as necessary to perform the professional responsibilities of the position. Participation in professional activities, curriculum development, and campus committees is required.

The teaching assignment may include courses offered in either onsite, online and hybrid format, evening and/or Saturday classes.

Start Date:
Fall 2026

• Teach courses in Child Development using various teaching methods including demonstrations, active learning strategies and lectures.
• Maintain records of attendance, census, grades, etc.
• Maintain regular posted office hours and be accessible to students.
• Provide an environment conducive to effective learning.
• Assist in the development and implementation of curriculum, policies, and procedures for the program.
• Participate in campus governance and professional activities (e.g. committees, scheduling, leadership positions, faculty meetings, etc.).
• Participate in staff development and continuing education activities that are designed to maintain and develop currency in the field, pedagogy (for traditional and online teaching and learning), and student support strategies, especially as they relate to student equity initiatives.
• Work to achieve the college’s Institutional, Program, and Student Learning Outcomes in support of Glendale Community College’s Mission Statement.
• Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and effective working relationships with all employees and others encountered in the course of work.
• Demonstrate a sensitivity to, and understanding of, the diverse academic, socioeconomic, cultural, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnic backgrounds of community college students.
• Perform other instructional‑related duties as assigned.

Master’s in child development, early childhood education, human development, home economics/family and consumer studies with a specialization in child development/early childhood education, or educational psychology with a specialization in child development/early childhood education

OR

bachelor’s in any of the above AND master’s in social work, educational supervision, elementary education, special education, psychology, bilingual/ bicultural education, life management/home economics, family life…