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.

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 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
- Revision of instruction is continuous
- Experience and efforts in revision and assessment of instruction are modeled and used to mentor other faculty

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