Temporary Instructor of Humanities - Durham Campus

Join Team NCSSM at the #1 rated Best Public High School in America for 2025

CLOSING DATE:Open until filled

POSITION TYPE:Temporary 10-month up to 12.5 hours per week/course including up to 5.8 hours of live per week/course synchronous teaching via studio or Zoom Monday through Friday

HIRING SALARY RATE:Commensurate with education and experience

APPOINTMENT PERIOD:8/20/2025 - 5/19/2026

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Description of Duties:

We seek a temporary part-time instructor with a social sciences background to teach one or more introductory high school courses in the Connect program.

Instructor positions are available for the following courses:

Fall Semester:

Honors 21st Century Media Studies - Monday-Friday - 10:00AM - 11:10AM

Spring Semester:

Honors 21st Century Media Studies - Monday-Friday - 10:00AM - 11:10AM

The 21st Century Media Studies course is an interdisciplinary cultural studies course in which students examine and interpret the ways various modes of media influence us. Students study media theory analyze cultural and historical contexts the aesthetics of a variety of formats examine how forms have shifted and investigate the relationship between media and reality ways that media influences and changes our culture and how responses to media change over time. The course considers a variety of critical approaches that include: cultural psychoanalytic feminist and others. Through these approaches students contemplate issues and problems considering such aspects as: technology representations of reality human meaning identity politics economics self/other dynamics gender/race/ethnicity and community/belonging. This lens of analysis reverberates both within and outside of America.

The NCSSM Connect program offers live synchronous virtual courses taught by NCSSM faculty to students in their local high schools across North Carolina. During class Connect instructors use group activities and cutting-edge instructional technology to facilitate active participation project-based learning and cross-site collaboration with students from around the state. Students can interact with others from the mountains to the coast. Our NCSSM Connect program allows smaller rural schools to offer AP and honors-level courses that may otherwise be unavailable.

The position reports to the Director of Instructional Leadership and is responsible for providing instruction for an NCSSM Connect distance educationhumanitiescourse via Zoom or other interactive videoconferencing mediums. Using a combination of a pre-developed curriculum digital assets and materials developed by the instructor the instructor will deliver the course live/synchronously to one or more sites in North Carolina. Daily broadcasts will be seventy minutes long.

General duties include: developing and communicating to students clear course objectives and goals; planning and developing an instructional program that helps students assimilate specific course content and skills; regularly monitoring and evaluating students progress providing them with resources and feedback on their performance; structure and manage an environment conducive to learning; model for students responsibility to self and others; follow the Schools philosophy policies and procedures; visit each site one or more times during the semester; participate in professional development and personal intellectual growth activities.

This position offers the option to work remotely.

Preferred experience includes teaching in thehumanitiesor a related fieldpreferably withsecondarystudents or undergraduates at the freshman/sophomore level and a commitment to engaging gifted and motivated students in virtual synchronous instruction.

Enthusiasm for student-centered hands-on labs or projects and familiarity with educational technology to deliver interactive synchronous remote courses. Preparation for teaching in an online environment as demonstrated by training or experience.

A Masters degree in Media Studies Cultural Studies Social Studies or a related technical field or a Masters degree in Education with a technical Bachelors degree.

A minimum of two years of teaching experience is required.

Team NCSSM Benefits

Free On-campus parking

Facilities: Library & Gymnasium

Cafeteria on site

Health Insurance: Temporary employees who are hired to work 30 hours or more for three (3) months or more are eligible for enrollment in a High Deductible Health Plan. This incurs a monthly expense to both the employee and NCSSM and each year these rates are subject to change.

About NCSSM:

North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics(NCSSM) is a world-class public high school with statewide reach empowering academically talented students from diverse backgrounds from every corner of the state to design their own future. We offer residential high school programs in Durham and Morganton for juniors and seniors or virtual high school courses and programs that students can take alongside their local curriculum all tuition free. Our wide array of summer offerings for rising 5th- through 12th-graders includes free opportunities for in-state students alongside paid options for students from anywhere in the world. NCSSM Extended Learning partners with communities and regions to advance student learning and outcomes.

Specializing in science technology engineering and math and embracing the fine arts and humanities NCSSM has become the model for 18 such specialized schools around the globe since its founding in 1980 and is a full constituent of the University of North Carolina System. NCSSMsIgnite Transform comprehensive campaignseeks to raise $50 million in private support for our mission.

The new NCSSM-Morganton campus opened in 2022 for summer programs and its first fall academic term. NCSSM-Morganton focuses on the booming fields of data science and artificial intelligence preparing the leaders of tomorrow to navigate a future driven by data and machine learning with emphasis on the humanistic implications and ethical use of these tools.

Nearly two-thirds of NCSSM graduates earn a bachelors degree in a STEM field -- over three times the national average including 58 percent of our underrepresented minority graduates which is nearly four times the national average. Nearly three-quarters have earned or are seeking a graduate degree. A 2020 economic impact study found that 54 percent of our alumni continue to live and work in North Carolina catalyzing nearly $1.3 billion in annual economic activity. NCSSM values the diversity in our student body and all members of the NCSSM community are expected to foster a safe environment of respect and inclusion for all faculty staff and students.

For more information please read the NCSSMstrategic planand visit.

Submit an electronic application via this link:Instructor of Humanities.

To be considered for a position please attach a cover letter CV and statement of teaching philosophy to the online application before submitting.

Final candidates are subject to criminal and sex offender background checks. Some vacancies also require a motor vehicle check. If the highest degree is from an institution outside of the U.S. final candidates are required to have their degree equivalency verified ator equivalent service. NCSSM participates in E-Verify. Federal law requires all employers to verify the identity and employment eligibility of all persons hired to work in the United States.

Please refrain from submitting multiple applications. However if multiple applications are submitted to a posting only the most recent application received prior to the posting close date will be accepted. There is a 24 hour waiting period before an applicant can re-apply to a position.

If you have questions please contact Mikhaela Johnson at.