INSTRUCTOR, ACADEMICS

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Do you love teaching? Are you looking to work in a challenging and rewarding environment where you can really make a difference, and where career growth is supported? If you became a teacher to help people acquire knowledge and you believe that everyone deserves the highest quality of education, we have the role for you! This is your opportunity to join our growing team.

Join a Community That Cares:

Joining GEO means contributing to our mission to provide the best rehabilitation and community reintegration programs and services to those in our care. GEO is a place for professional growth, exploration, creativity, and valuable interpersonal relationships. Interested in achieving extraordinary things? Send in your application. Every one of our employees makes us who we are.

Responsibilities

Role and Responsibilities:

As an Academic Instructor with us, you will be teaching in a classroom environment to provide diverse students with adult basic education, English language development, special education, and basic subjects including reading, mathematics, and language arts. This role will require you to:

• Teach career planning, social adjustment, and general life skills courses.
• Instruct conversational English, as well as local ideas and customs to students with limited English proficiency.
• Maintain records including testing, daily inmate/detainee work, and attendance.
• Evaluate and ensure inmate/detainee academic progress.
• Provide individual tutoring.

Qualifications

Competencies Required:

If you have a natural ability for working in a team with a wide variety of members and you’re truly driven by the joy of seeing your students thrive, you are in the right place. Our employees feel proud to play a role in their students’ re-entry to society. Apply if you have:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university required.
• Two (2) years of relevant teaching experience preferred.
• Valid teaching certificate from the state Department of Education or comparable authority required.

Physical Requirements:

• Frequently: lift or carry up to 10 lbs.; bend, stoop, reach above shoulder level, walk, or stand.
• Occasionally: lift or carry up to 20 lbs.; push or pull up to 40 lbs.; sit.

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