DIVERSITY INITIATIVES

Future Instructor Training Internship and Mentorship Program PDF

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 existing faculty at NOCCCD to mentor future potential instructors in selected fields for fall 2018. The internship program will be one semester in length and will run from August 1, 2018 through December 15, 2018.

The program will offer an $800.00 stipend for each intern and mentor for the semester and offer workshops on becoming a community college instructor. The goal of this program is to increase the diversity of community college faculty to better serve our diverse student population.

If interested in participating in this program as either a mentor or intern, please contact Ranmalee Perera (raperera@gmail.com)

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR INTERNS & MENTORS:

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 your advanced academic education or training, on your way to your program completion (graduate degrees for academic fields, terminal credentials for vocational fields).

MENTORS:

• Tenured faculty.
• Demonstrate effective teaching skills with diverse student populations; and either training or experience infusing diversity, inclusion, multiculturalism, equity and/or social justice into course content.

MENTOR-INTERN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITITES:

 Mandatory orientation will occur at the beginning of the program/term.

INTERNS:

• Attend the mentor's classroom for at least one Carnegie-hour per week during the fall 2018 semester.
• Attend four (4) mandatory training seminars (sessions will be 1-2 hours in length).
• Attend a completion ceremony/graduation at the end of the semester.
• Teach a minimum number of lessons/class sessions (under the aegis 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.
• Interns will keep records, including a journal of reflection during the program to be submitted and reviewed by the mentor and committee.

MENTORS:

• Profice the intern with the opportunity to teach. 
• Ensure interns complete classroom observations.
• 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. Date TBD.
• Encourage the presence of the intern at departmental and division meetings.
• Conduct midterm review and assessment.

APPLICATION:

Mentor application due by May 31, 2018 App PDF

Intern application due by June 15, 2018 App PDF