Tutor, Dedicated Tutor, and Supplemental Instruction (SI) Leader - Pool - Tacoma Community College

Tacoma Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a diverse population of approximately 14,000 students.  We embrace our identity as a community college and strongly encourage applications from candidates who recognize and honor the important role that equity, diversity, and inclusion brings to an educational community.  Our stated mission is to create meaningful and relevant learning, inspire greater equity, and celebrate success in our lives and in our communities.  We are recognized nationally as an, Achieving the Dream "leader college" and our faculty are engaged in innovative work to improve student retention and program completion. According to the Community College Survey of Student Engagement, TCC ranks high on measures of active learning and academic challenge, thanks to our creative and scholarly faculty.  We seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:
 

• Reflects the diversity of our community.
• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching.
• Is attracted by the campus mission promoting equitable access to educational opportunities.
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for underrepresented populations.
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others.
• Engages effectively with the community both within and outside of TCC.

 Regional Setting
 For information on Tacoma and the surrounding area:  https://www.tacomacc.edu/tcc-life/life_in_tacoma
 
 Position Highlights
 Responsible for assisting and tutoring students in their academic course work through a center or program:

 The Business Education Center (BEC) provides appointment and drop-in tutoring for business students. The BEC supports students with accounting, business, computer user, economics, statistics and business math courses as well as learning strategies.

 The Math Advising Resource Center (MARC) provides individual and group drop-in math tutoring for students, focusing on helping them develop the skills and strategies necessary to be a successful math student.

 The Writing & Tutoring Center (WTC) provides appointment and drop-in tutoring for students, focusing on helping them develop learning strategies. The WTC supports students across the disciplines, including the liberal arts (English, EAP, etc.), social sciences, sciences, and math.

Supplemental Instruction (SI) provides peer-facilitated group study sessions for historically difficult courses, focusing not only on what to learn, but how to learn. The SI program supports specific courses across the disciplines, including the liberal arts, social sciences, sciences, and math.

Dedicated Tutoring provides in-class peer-facilitated support for courses below college level, including English, Adult Basic Education, and Statway courses.
 
 These positions report to the Program Director of the Business Education Center (BEC) & Math Advising Resource Center (MARC), the Supplemental Instruction Coordinator and/or the Program Director of Writing & Tutoring Center (WTC)/Computer Assisted Lab (CAL)/Cooperative Learning Center (COOP).
 
 *This recruitment is to establish an applicant pool for future vacancies. Individuals will be contacted as vacancies occur.
 

 

Job Type: Temporary

Agency: Student Affairs