Canvas, English Language, Language Teaching, Mentoring, Online Courses, Online Training, Physical Demands, Time Management, Training/Teaching
Position Purpose:
Deliver and interact with students engaged in online asynchronous independent study “Your Classroom Practices”
Essential Functions
- Record and post a short video introduction to each module, including your relationship to the content and describing the learning goals for the module
- Respond to student input on Canvas in a thoughtful, thorough and timely manner
- Assess student performances in a way which cultivates their knowledge, skills and dispositions related to the subject matter
- Availability for virtual office hours with students who want to engage with the instructor in real time
- Calculate a grade for the course for students on an ongoing basis, and enters the final grade for the course into Banner
Requirements
- Doctoral degree conferred in the area they are teaching
- Graduate-student level proficiency (C2/Superior) in English required
- Experience teaching languages other than English to English-speaking learners
- Experience teaching online courses is preferred.
- Participation in Middlebury DLINQ mentoring relationship for teachers of online asynchronous courses if this is the first time teaching an online asynchronous course through Middlebury
- Proficiency in Canvas as a platform for delivering instruction and Banner for engaging with student records
- Proficiency in tools for producing and socially annotating video and audio files for responding to students
Physical Demands & Working Conditions:
- Must be able to sit at a desk for long periods of time.