Indy Reads
Rolling Application: High School Equivalency (HSE) Adult Education In
Indy Reads, Indianapolis, Indiana, us, 46262
Overview
Rolling Application: High School Equivalency (HSE) and Pre-HSE Adult Education Instructors position at Indy Reads. Indy Reads seeks to create a pool of experienced, part-time instructors to teach classes for future openings in the Community Classrooms program. Classes are delivered both virtually and in person during the week, with sessions in mornings, afternoons, or evenings. Interested applicants should apply via this listing, attaching a resume and a cover letter. Please specify your availability to teach in the cover letter. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis; qualified candidates will be contacted for interviews as open positions arise.
About Indy Reads Our vision is simple: 100% literacy for all. Located in Fountain Square and serving central Indiana, Indy Reads builds literacy, English language, and job readiness skills to empower adults and families to reach their full potential. We advance our mission through our Community Classrooms, our community bookstore, and educational programming. This is a long-established nonprofit organization with nearly 40 years of experience in adult education. We are under new leadership and deeply committed to advancing social equity within all aspects of the organization, and Indy Reads is poised for growth.
Our adult learners are at the heart of everything we do. Dedicated staff and volunteers work with native and non-native English speakers to strengthen literacy and English language skills, earn HSE diplomas, and acquire workforce certifications. With literacy and language education, our adult learners redefine their potential for success and engage with society in new and deeper ways. Indy Reads advances social equity through education.
Position Overview At Indy Reads, our vision is to make Central Indiana 100% literate. With 1 in 5 Hoosiers reading at or below a sixth-grade ability, our mission to promote and improve the literacy of adults and families in Central Indiana is needed now more than ever. We take a community literacy approach to teaching adult students. Through an innovative social learning model, instructors are supported by a team of volunteer tutors in each dynamic classroom setting.
The Indy Reads program offers students access to comprehensive literacy education from an instructor-led, volunteer-tutor-supported team. Using the Indy Reads curriculum, the Instructor will create individualized lesson plans that meet the unique needs of our students. Reporting to the Vice President of Community Impact, the part-time Instructor will oversee student progress and lead and develop a team of volunteer tutors who act as instructional aides.
The role encompasses teaching distance learning, academic advising, professional development, and community service. Instructors provide quality instruction to adult learners, integrating meaningful classroom activities and experiences that facilitate student learning goals and workforce training and employment skills.
The goal of instruction is to support individual adult literacy students in making continuous improvements in reading, writing, language, and critical thinking across the disciplines by developing the underlying processes needed to develop these skills. Student progress will be measured using the TABE, HiSET, and GED with the goal of earning their High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma and/or entering the workforce.
Responsibilities And Duties The following is not an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications; other duties may be assigned.
Creating a Comfortable and Positive Learning Community
Establish rapport with students
Promote student self-efficacy and growth mindset
Evaluate and respond to individual student needs
Observe confidentiality of students and program information
Individualization
Lead students in a multi-level classroom: Analyze and select diverse texts from traditional print, digital, and online resources that link to multiple ability levels and multicultural perspectives, and connect to students’ backgrounds, interests, and proficiency levels, for a class of up to 20 students
Design in-depth instruction to improve students’ abilities to read and understand varied text, and to spur student interest in more complex reading materials
Coordinate tutors to maximize differentiation: Work with, support, and assist volunteer tutors in providing engaging 1-1 and small-group sessions
Retain students by ensuring instructional content is relevant to individual specific adult students’ lives and goals
Relevant, Dynamic Lesson Planning & Instruction
Provide ABE activities and instruction across a continuum, from pre- and basic literacy through elementary levels, culminating with competencies equivalent to the eighth-grade level. Instruction includes reading, mathematics, communication skills, social studies, science, and career and college readiness competencies
Write individualized lesson plans (ILPs)
Develop reading and writing instruction that is responsive to the diverse needs, interests, and goals of our students
Use appropriate and varied instructional approaches supported by research for comprehension, fluency, critical thinking, motivation, vocabulary, integrated writing, and foundational skills
Administer appropriate assessments to identify, monitor progress, and measure effectiveness of intervention practices and students’ responses to instruction
Support students’ ability to succeed in a high school equivalency exam prep
Communicate assessment results and effective strategies to staff in digital platforms
Provide instruction for career and college planning including establishing short-term and long-term goals. Additional instruction on employment and training awareness, career and college readiness, and transition skills
Other Duties
Training and Meetings: Plan collaboratively with Instructional Team Lead and other instructors to implement high-leverage learning strategies. Professional Development workshops will be held quarterly.
Meet consistently with Instructional Team Lead and fellow literacy team instructors to strengthen professional teaching knowledge and to stay current with professional literature, including the latest research on promising practices for adult literacy.
Uses existing technology effectively in the performance of duties
Performs other work as required
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; educator license or degree preferred
Minimum two years classroom instruction experience
Experience working with students with learning differences and/or working with adults
Ability to facilitate Math learning through Algebra and Geometry
Must have reliable transportation
Proficiency with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office Suite, Office 365, Asana, Slack, and other tools
Ability to work well as part of a team within a culturally diverse environment with people from all backgrounds and varying degrees of experience and skills
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
Curious, open, and dedicated to participating in Indy Reads’ journey to advance DEIA
Commitment to the mission of Indy Reads
A sense of humor
Compensation and Benefits Compensation: This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated individual to assume a pivotal role in advancing Indy Reads’ mission. Indy Reads offers a 401(k) and 3% company match to part-time staff.
Equal Opportunity Indy Reads is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Indy Reads makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
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About Indy Reads Our vision is simple: 100% literacy for all. Located in Fountain Square and serving central Indiana, Indy Reads builds literacy, English language, and job readiness skills to empower adults and families to reach their full potential. We advance our mission through our Community Classrooms, our community bookstore, and educational programming. This is a long-established nonprofit organization with nearly 40 years of experience in adult education. We are under new leadership and deeply committed to advancing social equity within all aspects of the organization, and Indy Reads is poised for growth.
Our adult learners are at the heart of everything we do. Dedicated staff and volunteers work with native and non-native English speakers to strengthen literacy and English language skills, earn HSE diplomas, and acquire workforce certifications. With literacy and language education, our adult learners redefine their potential for success and engage with society in new and deeper ways. Indy Reads advances social equity through education.
Position Overview At Indy Reads, our vision is to make Central Indiana 100% literate. With 1 in 5 Hoosiers reading at or below a sixth-grade ability, our mission to promote and improve the literacy of adults and families in Central Indiana is needed now more than ever. We take a community literacy approach to teaching adult students. Through an innovative social learning model, instructors are supported by a team of volunteer tutors in each dynamic classroom setting.
The Indy Reads program offers students access to comprehensive literacy education from an instructor-led, volunteer-tutor-supported team. Using the Indy Reads curriculum, the Instructor will create individualized lesson plans that meet the unique needs of our students. Reporting to the Vice President of Community Impact, the part-time Instructor will oversee student progress and lead and develop a team of volunteer tutors who act as instructional aides.
The role encompasses teaching distance learning, academic advising, professional development, and community service. Instructors provide quality instruction to adult learners, integrating meaningful classroom activities and experiences that facilitate student learning goals and workforce training and employment skills.
The goal of instruction is to support individual adult literacy students in making continuous improvements in reading, writing, language, and critical thinking across the disciplines by developing the underlying processes needed to develop these skills. Student progress will be measured using the TABE, HiSET, and GED with the goal of earning their High School Equivalency (HSE) diploma and/or entering the workforce.
Responsibilities And Duties The following is not an exhaustive list of duties, responsibilities, or qualifications; other duties may be assigned.
Creating a Comfortable and Positive Learning Community
Establish rapport with students
Promote student self-efficacy and growth mindset
Evaluate and respond to individual student needs
Observe confidentiality of students and program information
Individualization
Lead students in a multi-level classroom: Analyze and select diverse texts from traditional print, digital, and online resources that link to multiple ability levels and multicultural perspectives, and connect to students’ backgrounds, interests, and proficiency levels, for a class of up to 20 students
Design in-depth instruction to improve students’ abilities to read and understand varied text, and to spur student interest in more complex reading materials
Coordinate tutors to maximize differentiation: Work with, support, and assist volunteer tutors in providing engaging 1-1 and small-group sessions
Retain students by ensuring instructional content is relevant to individual specific adult students’ lives and goals
Relevant, Dynamic Lesson Planning & Instruction
Provide ABE activities and instruction across a continuum, from pre- and basic literacy through elementary levels, culminating with competencies equivalent to the eighth-grade level. Instruction includes reading, mathematics, communication skills, social studies, science, and career and college readiness competencies
Write individualized lesson plans (ILPs)
Develop reading and writing instruction that is responsive to the diverse needs, interests, and goals of our students
Use appropriate and varied instructional approaches supported by research for comprehension, fluency, critical thinking, motivation, vocabulary, integrated writing, and foundational skills
Administer appropriate assessments to identify, monitor progress, and measure effectiveness of intervention practices and students’ responses to instruction
Support students’ ability to succeed in a high school equivalency exam prep
Communicate assessment results and effective strategies to staff in digital platforms
Provide instruction for career and college planning including establishing short-term and long-term goals. Additional instruction on employment and training awareness, career and college readiness, and transition skills
Other Duties
Training and Meetings: Plan collaboratively with Instructional Team Lead and other instructors to implement high-leverage learning strategies. Professional Development workshops will be held quarterly.
Meet consistently with Instructional Team Lead and fellow literacy team instructors to strengthen professional teaching knowledge and to stay current with professional literature, including the latest research on promising practices for adult literacy.
Uses existing technology effectively in the performance of duties
Performs other work as required
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in a related field required; educator license or degree preferred
Minimum two years classroom instruction experience
Experience working with students with learning differences and/or working with adults
Ability to facilitate Math learning through Algebra and Geometry
Must have reliable transportation
Proficiency with Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office Suite, Office 365, Asana, Slack, and other tools
Ability to work well as part of a team within a culturally diverse environment with people from all backgrounds and varying degrees of experience and skills
Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing
Curious, open, and dedicated to participating in Indy Reads’ journey to advance DEIA
Commitment to the mission of Indy Reads
A sense of humor
Compensation and Benefits Compensation: This is an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated individual to assume a pivotal role in advancing Indy Reads’ mission. Indy Reads offers a 401(k) and 3% company match to part-time staff.
Equal Opportunity Indy Reads is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Indy Reads makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
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