Instruction – Assistant Professor
Instruction – Assistant Professor
Rank Description
- Strengthen inclusive, student-centered pedagogy to meet the unique needs of College of Western Idaho’s diverse community college population.
- Demonstrate continuous and self-reflective improvement of course curriculum, content delivery, assessment, and responsiveness to student needs.
- Establish and maintain teaching excellence.
- Develop, revise, and/or recommend curriculum, courses, and programs at the department level.
Observed Actions
- Consistent record of teaching excellence as shown in student evaluations, formal evaluations, self-reflection.
- Curriculum
- Participate in revision and update of curriculum.
- Develop course for delivery in new mode (face-to-face/hybrid/online).
- Efforts toward improvement are based on self-assessment and self-reflection.
- Develop strategies for inclusive, student-centered pedagogy.
- Develop courses new to the instructor.
- Develop courses in format new to the instructor.
- Revision of instructor’s own course curriculum, delivery, interaction with students.
- Participate in peer review of courses.
- Use assessment tools, which may include those available from Center for Teaching and Learning, to evaluate effectiveness of instruction.
- Revision of instruction is clearly tied to assessment of instruction.
Impact
The impact of this work can be demonstrated through:
- Student achievement in own courses.
- Student retention in own courses.
- Effectiveness of curriculum at course and department/program level.
- Value added to department/program.
The impact can be measured in:
- Student evaluations.
- Performance evaluations.
- Cover letter.