We are seeking a Full-time Instructor to join our team at WGU. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing instructional materials, providing one-to-many virtual events, and facilitating student communities to support peer collaboration and student development.
Requirements
- Subject-matter expertise in the assigned content and skills of the course(s)/domain(s)
- Strong knowledge of how student characteristics interact with different learning needs common to the course(s)/domain(s)
- Strong communication skills with the ability to moderate online student communities to encourage engagement and learning
- Ability to use information from student profiles, learning behaviors, and interactions to identify individual student needs
- Demonstrates respect for and value of diverse perspectives and experiences
- Ability to adapt standard resources, templates, and instructional plans for the needs of individual students or groups of students
- Ability to apply adult learning principles and instructional skills to build student competency in a virtual one-to-one setting
- Provide encouragement for student self-reflection and metacognition to improve competency in learning objectives
- Flexibility to adjust instructional approach depending on individual student needs and preference
- Skilled at using data to identify students in need of proactive support, with the ability to select appropriate tone and content for proactive outreach
- Ability to adapt the timing, modality, and frequency of outreach/contact to individual student needs and preferences
- Strong active listening skills and emotional intelligence with the ability to build relationships with adult students
- Solid understanding of coaching strategies to support personal, academic, and professional development in adult students
- Willingness to engage in regular self-reflection and re-evaluation of beliefs, perspectives, and approaches to improve equity
- Proficient in developing presentation materials that align to specified objectives and are visually engaging, understandable, and accessible
- Ability to develop learning facilitation experiences and effective, formative self-assessment activities aligned with specific objectives to advance student learning
- Skilled at implementing relationship-building activities for online student communities
- Ability to facilitate synchronous student interaction in a virtual environment
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare
- Health savings account and flexible spending account
- Basic and voluntary life insurance
- Disability coverage
- Accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages
- Legal and identity theft coverage
- Retirement savings plan
- Wellbeing program
- Discounted WGU tuition
- Flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual
- Flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual
- 11 paid holidays
- Up to 12 weeks of parental leave
