FSW's Hendry/Glades Curtis Center is in search of an English Instructor to facilitate a six-week program.

Responsible for creation and instruction of presentations and practice material aligned to college placement exam (Accuplacer) to increase student placement scores and college preparation. Instructional time takes place every Tuesday and Thursday between 1pm-5:15pm from June 20th -August 8th 2023 (excluding July 4, 2023). Courses will be composed of 20-30 students and will be assessed with pre and post Accuplacer exams. In addition to increasing student score attainment, instructors will monitor student progress, cover test taking strategies specific to the Accuplacer, supervise students, foster a positive learning environment, and communicate with the program coordinator.

The primary focus will be on English skills including the following:

Sentence Variety and Style: Creating sentences and paragraphs demonstrating control of vocabulary, voice, and structure

Mechanical Conventions: Expressing ideas using Standard Written English: Sentence subordination/coordination, parallel structure, modifier placement. Avoiding verb tense shift, pronoun shift in person and number, and shift in verb voice and mood

Effective Language Use: Mastering precision, concision, style/tone, syntax

Conventions of Usage: Properly editing text for formal continuity in noun agreement, pronoun clarity, pronoun/antecedent agreement, subject/verb agreement, logical comparison and frequently misused words

Conventions of Punctuation: Properly editing text for standardized continuity in punctuation within the sentence, possessive nouns/pronouns, items in a series, nonrestrictive elements, hyphenation and avoiding unnecessary punctuation

Critical Thinking: Communicating a point of view and demonstrating reasoned relationships among ideas

Purpose and Focus: The extent to which you present information in a unified and coherent manner, clearly addressing the issue

Organization and Structure: Ordering and connecting ideas

Development and Support: Developing and supporting ideas

A secondary focus will be on Reading skills including the following:

Content: Deriving meaning from a range of texts and determining the meaning of words and phrases in short and extended contexts

Modes and Purpose: Understanding a range of content areas, writing modes, and complexities in both single and paired passages are included

Inference: Analyzing content for inferred meaning

Rhetoric: Analyzing word choice rhetorically, structure, point of view and arguments

Preferred Qualifications:

Masters Degree with at least 18 graduate level credit hours in English

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s Degree in English with an active State of Florida High School Teaching License

Experience teaching High School students (9-12)

Schedule:

The program this summer runs June 20, 2023 through August 9, 2023 (ALL Tuesdays and Thursdays 1:00p.m.-5:15pm, excluding July 4, 2023).

Compensation:

$3,000 per cohort. Depending on enrollment, this program may have one or two cohorts.

Applications deadline: May 19, 2023.

If this position sounds like something you are interested in, submit your resume and cover letter for consideration to become one of the best, the brightest, the BUCS!

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