Instruction - Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor Rank Description

• Strengthen inclusive, student-centered pedagogy to meet the unique needs of CWI’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 (f2f/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 CTL, to evaluate effectiveness of instruction
  • Revision of instruction is clearly tied to assessment of instruction

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