Primary Instructor for 2026 Summer Language Institute (SLI)

About this position

Primary instructors are responsible for teaching in an established language course, in collaboration with the home department and Summer Session. Courses are offered based on departmental and student needs. Introductory and intermediate language courses are taught in an intensive, condensed format; these 300-unit courses meet 4 or 5 days each week for 6, 7, or 8 weeks, beginning June 15, 2026. Responsibility for teaching the courses is often divided into two or three separate 3- or 4-week positions (equivalent to teaching 100 or 150 units and compensated accordingly). Since SLI courses have multiple instructors and/or teaching assistants, all instructors must be prepared to coordinate daily with their co-instructors and/or language assistants. Instructors of intensive (300-unit) modern language courses will also be required to administer a four-skills proficiency assessment at the end of the course, in cooperation with the Office of Language Assessment. Instructors are also responsible for grading all of the exam components, and may need to participate in training in order to do so. All SLI courses will be taught remotely. Our instructional employment webpage contains the list of course offerings in which we have openings, as well as more information about our policies and processes: https://college.uchicago.edu/summer-session/summer-session-instructional-employment Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s or Doctoral degree in language teaching, language area, or related field strongly preferred • Prior language-instruction experience in the target language at the university or four-year college level, and knowledge of different approaches to language pedagogy, including communicative and content-based instruction, required • Native or near-native ability in the target language required for modern languages; for classical languages, superior reading proficiency in the target language is required, and intermediate or higher proficiency in speaking

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