About This Role
This instructor role in the Education Department focuses on equipping students with the necessary skills and knowledge for entry-level employment in their chosen program of study. The instructor will work under the guidance of the Director of Education, contributing to a coordinated team effort.
Responsibilities
- Provide students with a complete syllabus containing course objectives on the first day of class
- Exercise firm, fair, and consistent class control
- Begin and end class/lab on time and facilitate the effective use of class time
- Maintain consistent performance when dealing with all students with respect to grading, documentation, policies, and discipline
- Provide the Director of Education or their designee with regular feedback relative to class and student progress and/or problems
- Provide students with timely information and feedback on their academic progress relative to quizzes, tests, homework, and projects
- Review academic progress with students on a regular basis, well in advance of the end of a course
- Ensure the classroom/laboratory facility is left in a clean and orderly manner upon conclusion of your scheduled session
- Supervise and manage assigned teaching and laboratory assistants
- Contact, via telephone, all absent students as required by the college
- Maintain an overall student attendance rate in accordance with the college’s fiscal year attendance goal as measured at the end of each term/module and annually
- Maintain an overall student retention rate in accordance with the college’s fiscal retention goal as measured at the end of each module/term and annually
- Present enthusiastic, well-prepared, organized, and clear lectures and classroom activities consistent with the course syllabus
- Provide students with class/laboratory objectives daily
- Present material to meet or exceed all of the approved course outcomes for the course
- Ensure that examination items are based upon and cover all approved course outcomes
- Utilize a variety of learning modalities and support materials to accentuate presentations and facilitate the learning process
- Provide the opportunity for individual tutoring and remediation
- Present "self" as a professional role model at all times
- Inspire student confidence in the company, college, faculty, and self
- Relate the material you are presenting to the contemporary workplace
- Continually promote the development and effective use of skills in areas such as critical and analytical thinking, evaluation, communication, computation, problem solving, and decision-making
- Assign laboratory activities that coincide with and support the material presented in lecture sessions
