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.
For Classified Professionals
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 pluralism into their curricular content and teaching style. This program aims to connect equity minded faculty at NOCCCD to mentor Classified professionals who aspire to become community college faculty. The internship program is one academic semester.
Classified FIT Program
This program aims to connect equity minded faculty at NOCCCD to mentor Classified professionals who aspire to become community college faculty. The internship program is one academic semester.
This FREE professional development internship program is offered to all permanent Classified professionals. This is a voluntary unpaid internship that will offer workshops on becoming an inter-culturally competent and equity-minded community college instructor. The goal of this program is to generate foundational experience and expertise for classified professionals to gain the necessary skillset.
Eligibility Criteria for Classified FIT Interns & Mentors
Classified FIT Interns
- Demonstrated interest in learning how to infuse your class content and teaching style with diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, equity and/or social justice.
- Completed no less than 75% of their advanced academic education or training, on the way to their program completion (graduate degrees for academic fields, terminal credentials for vocational fields).
- No prior community college teaching experience
Mentors
- Tenured faculty preferred
- Demonstrated effective teaching skills with diverse student populations
- Demonstrated training or experience infusing diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, equity and/or social justice into course content and teaching modalities
Duties and Responsibilities
The participation requirements for Classified Interns and Mentors are specified in the duties and responsibilities section above.
Register for the Program
If interested in participating in this program as either a Mentor or Intern, please contact Dr. Flavio Medina-Martin at fmedina@nocccd.edu.
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