Overview
Part-time teachers are expected to prepare and facilitate English language and communication skills courses, assess student performance, and potentially participate in language project development.
Key Responsibilities
- Prepare and facilitate English language and communication skills courses.
- Correct assignments and homework.
- Monitor student progress and suggest learning strategies.
- Provide group and individual feedback.
- Administer, assess, and grade evaluation tasks, tests, and exams.
- Provide students’ final evaluations and report on attendance.
- Participate in the development of language or communication skills projects.
- Report on project progress and integrate supervisor feedback.
- Design English language learning assessments and applied communicative tasks.
- Contemporise pedagogical materials.
- Construct and grade language proficiency exams.
- Assess and communicate learner progress.
- Develop new English language and communication skills courses and learning materials.
- Use Learning Management Systems (such as Moodle) and e-learning tools.
- Administer courses in the Learning Management System, including maintaining attendance and grading records.
Required Experience
- A minimum of five years of experience teaching English as a foreign or second language to adults in a multi-cultural setting.
- At least three years of recent experience in curriculum development, language examination design, and/or language teacher training.
- Experience using a variety of e-learning tools, learning management systems, and online collaboration tools to teach a second or foreign language is desirable.
- Experience at an international level in a multicultural environment is highly desirable.
Qualifications
- Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent degree) in language area studies, language teaching, applied linguistics, communication or education/pedagogy or related area is required.
- Degrees with special emphasis on the theory and practice of teaching a second or foreign language to adult learners are desirable.
- A first-level university degree in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- Post-degree training in second or foreign language teaching is highly desirable.
