Future Instructor Training Program
Inspire and Engage Through Inclusive Education - To effectively engage community college students in the learning process, future instructors must be inclusive, inter-culturally competent, and able to integrate diversity, equity, and multiculturalism into their curricular content and teaching style.
This program aims to connect equity minded faculty at NOCCCD to mentor and inspire future instructors in selected fields for Spring 2024 semester. This program will offer stipends and additional resources for participants. The goal is to close the opportunity gap and foster the growth of the next generation of community college faculty.
For more information please contact Flavio Medina-Martin, District Director of Diversity, Culture, and Inclusion at fmedina@nocccd.edu or (714) 808-4067
Future Instructor Training Program Handbook
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Eligibility Criteria
- Demonstrated interest in learning how to infuse your class content and teaching style with diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, equity and /or social justice.
- Intern candidates should have completed no less than 75% of their advanced academic education or training, on their way to their program completion (graduate degrees for academic fields, terminal credentials for vocational fields).No prior community college teaching experience.
- Tenured faculty preferred
- Have demonstrated effective teaching skills with diverse student populations; and either training or experience infusing diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, equity and/or social justice into course content and teaching modalities.
Duties and Responsibilities
Both mentors and interns must attend a mandatory orientation session at the beginning of the semester.
- Attend and observe the mentor's classroom for at least one hour per week.
- Teach a minimum number of lessons/class sessions (under the supervision of the mentor, pursuant to the agreement between the mentor and intern).
- Attend mentor-intern meetings once a week, with a minimum of 2 hours per month.
- Attend intern cohort group session meetings.
- Keep record of activities, including a journal of reflection during the program to be submitted and reviewed by the committee.
- Attend four mandatory training seminars, 1-4 hours in length.
- Attend a completion ceremony/graduation at the end of the semester.
- Attend mandatory pre-orientation training.
- Attend mandatory orientation.
- Ensure interns complete classroom observations.
- Provide the intern with the opportunity to teach.
- Attend mentor-intern meetings once a week with a minimum of 2 hours per month.
- Guide the intern through the process of acquiring skills to teach effectively in a multicultural and ethnically diverse community college classroom.
- Attend one mandatory training session.
- Encourage the presence of the intern at departmental and division meetings.
- Conduct midterm review and assessment.
- Attend a completion/graduation ceremony at the end of the semester.
- Estimated commitment of 25-45 hours per semester, beyond time spent in classroom.
Contact NOCCCD
Flavio Medina-Martin
Diversity and Inclusion Faculty Fellows
Annette Letcher, Ed.D.
Professor of English at Cypress College
Candace Lynch
Professor of English as a Second Language (ESL) at North Orange Continuing Education
Sergio Banda
Professor of Sociology at Fullerton College
Lead Faculty Fellows
M. Leonor Cadena, Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology at Fullerton College
Virgil Adams
Professor of Human Services at Cypress College