Instruction - Professor
Professor Rank Description
- Model inclusive, student-centered pedagogy to meet the unique needs of CWI’s diverse community college population.
- Model continuous, self-reflective, collaborative mastery of course curriculum, content delivery, assessment, and responsiveness to student needs.
- Demonstrate a consistent record of teaching excellence.
- Develop, revise, recommend, and/or lead initiatives concerning curriculum, courses, and programs.
Observed actions
- Consistent record of teaching excellence as shown in student/formal evaluations, self-reflection
- Curriculum
- Lead development and proposal of new curriculum
- Participate in inter-institutional alignment discussions
- Alignment of secondary and post-secondary curriculum
- Efforts toward improvement are based on self-assessment and self-reflection. Efforts toward improvement are assessed and revised appropriately. Experience with self-reflective practice and pedagogy is shared with others.
- 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 Observation 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
- Revision of instruction is continuous
- Experience and efforts in revision and assessment of instruction are modeled and used to mentor other faculty
The impact of this work can be demonstrated through
- Student achievement in own courses
- Student retention in own courses
- Effectiveness of curriculum at department/program, school, and institutional level
- Effectiveness of leadership in curriculum development
- Effectiveness of continuous improvement of course curriculum, content delivery, assessment, and responsiveness to student needs
- Effectiveness of modeling and mentoring
- Value added to department/program, school, institution, and beyond
The impact can be measured in
- Student evaluations
- Performance evaluations
Appendix C Promotion Rubrics Reference Materials
- Instruction - Instructor
- Instruction - Assistant Professor
- Instruction - Associate Professor
- Instruction - Professor
- Institutional Engagement - Instructor
- Institutional Engagement - Assistant Professor
- Institutional Engagement - Associate Professor
- Institutional Engagement - Professor
- Professional Development
- Professional Development - Instructor
- Professional Development - Assistant Professor
- Professional Development - Associate Professor
- Professional Development - Professor