Job Details

Part-time Adult Education Instructor/Test Administrator

Schedule: Monday Thursday, 16 22 hours/week

Location: Vocational Rehabilitation; David Houston Center

Salary: $30.00/hour

Qualifications: Current SC Teacher Certification. Minimum of 3 years successful teaching experience. Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organization skills. Digitally literate, with working knowledge of Office 365, Zoom/Teams, Microsoft Word and Excel.

Responsibilities:

• Coordinate scheduling and provide WIN Career Readiness Credential classes at Spartanburg County Vocational Rehabilitation locations;
• Coordinate scheduling and administer required assessments, including but not limited to the Test of Adult Basic Education (TABE) and the WIN Career Readiness assessments;
• Direct and evaluate learning experiences of students through effective planning and adequate preparation;
• Monitor and support student progress for Spartanburg County Adult Education Diploma program using the APEX Learning platform
• Assist students with course navigation, assignments, testing, and technology use with the APEX Learning platform;
• Monitor curriculum pacing and ensure alignment with diploma program requirements.
• Ensure instruction and coursework align with applicable state adult education standards, high school diploma requirements, and College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) and make adjustments when necessary;
• Work with Spartanburg County Adult Education Program Coordinator as the as the primary points of contact for APEX Learning implementation and troubleshooting;
• Monitor student pacing and assignment completion through APEX reporting tools;
• Manage adult classroom to provide an attractive and inviting educational environment;
• Ensure proper use of equipment, materials, and supplies;
• Execute school/site administrative policies and translate such policies to the community in a professional manner;
• Prepare, present, and evaluate instructional materials;
• Maintain accurate records, including attendance, and submit required data and reports in a timely manner;
• Execute strategies to improve and maintain program outcomes;
• Communicate pertinent information shared from the county office with the students and staff at the site, including, but not limited to, testing schedules, policy changes, and training opportunities.
• Participate in a minimum of 15 hours annually of director approved local, regional, and/or state professional development activities as assigned;
• Attend monthly instructional staff meetings at the Adult Education county office in Spartanburg;
• Keep informed of new trends and research studies regarding Adult Learning;
• Maintain positive and professional working relationships with colleagues.
• Provide a model in mature behavior for adults, including, but not limited to, dress, punctuality, and polite communication.
• Perform other duties as assigned by the Director of Adult Education.

Minimum Qualifications or Standards Required to Perform Essential Job Functions

Physical Requirements: Requires work that involves walking or standing some of the time and involves exerting up to 50 pounds of force on a recurring basis.

Data Conception: Requires the ability to compare and/or judge the readily observable, functional, structural or compositional characteristics (whether like or divergent from obvious standards) of data, people or things.

Interpersonal Communication: Requires the ability of speaking and/or signaling people to convey or exchange information. Includes receiving assignments and/or directions from supervisor.

Language Ability: Requires the ability to read a variety of documents. Must be able to speak with poise, voice control and confidence and to articulate information to others.

Intelligence: Requires the ability to apply logical thinking to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions; to interpret an extensive variety of instructions in oral, written or diagrammatic form; to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Must have the ability to comprehend and interpret received information and the ability to comprehend and implement basic machinery functions.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to record and deliver information, to explain procedures, to follow oral and written instructions. Must be able to communicate effectively and efficiently with persons of varying educational and cultural backgrounds.

Numerical Aptitude: Requires the ability to add and subtract totals, to multiply and divide, to determine percentages and decimals, to determine time. Must be able to use practical applications of fractions, percentages, ratio and proportion.

Form/Spatial Aptitude: Requires the ability to inspect items for proper length, width and shape, and visually read various information.

Motor Coordination: Requires the ability to coordinate hands and eyes rapidly and accurately in using automated office equipment and communications machinery.

Manual Dexterity: Requires the ability to handle a variety of items including computer keyboards, office equipment, control knobs, switches, etc. Must have minimal levels of eye/hand/foot coordination.

Color Discrimination: Requires the ability to differentiate between colors and shades of color.

Interpersonal Temperament: Requires the ability to deal with people beyond giving and receiving instructions. Must be adaptable to performing under moderate stress when confronted with an emergency or tight deadline. The worker is subject to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.

Physical Communication: Requires the ability to talk and hear: (talking: expressing or exchanging ideas by means of spoken words; hearing: perceiving nature of sounds by ear). Must be able to hear and understand communications through a telephone.