Cardiac Sonography faculty (PTCDS-25)

Duties and Responsibilities

• Construct a course syllabus for each course assigned, consistent with the generic course syllabus, stipulating course objectives, content and grading criteria.
• Prepare course presentations and instructional materials using active learning methods and a variety of instructional strategies, deliver instruction to students with those presentations and materials at each class session delivered in person on campus or online.
• Meet with courses and laboratories at scheduled times.
• Instruct, advise, consult with and evaluate the performance of enrolled students.
• Maintain clear records on student performance involved with the evaluation and grading of student performance.
• Participate in department meetings and comply with department decisions regarding instructional matters.
• Participate in department and institutional assessments of student learning and in department and institutional surveys.
• Comply with institutional procedures.
• Schedule office hours with at least one office hour held weekly for every three credit hours taught.
• Engage in professional development activities to maintain professional skills and currency in the profession and improve the quality of student learning.

  Job Requirements

  • Associates degree and possess the credential specific to Adult Cardiac Sonography: American Registry for Diagnostic Medical Sonography (ARDMS) Registered Diagnostic Cardiac Sonographer (RDCS) or Cardiovascular Credentialing International (CCI), RCS (Registered Cardiac Sonographer) and have documented experience in supervision, instruction, evaluation, student guidance and in educational theories and techniques and minimum of two years of clinical experience (4000 hours) as a registered sonographer in the professional sonography field.
  • PREFERRED: College teaching experience
    Online Teaching Experience

  Additional Information

  • Part-time faculty are paid on a lecture hour equivalents (LHE) basis. For most courses, the LHE is the same as a credit hour. For others, the LHE represents additional work for teaching the class, such as grading papers for Composition classes or teaching a class with a laboratory section (computers, languages, and the sciences); in those cases, the LHE represents a figure higher than the credit hour.
  • All part-time faculty start at the beginning pay rates, regardless of the level and type of experience obtained elsewhere. For the 2024-25 academic year rates are $1191/LHE for faculty without doctorates and $1262/LHE for faculty with doctorates.
  • Part-time faculty advance one step within the salary schedule with the successful completion of 2 fall & spring semesters where 3+ LHEs are taught in each semester.
  • Part-time faculty are hired on a semester-by-semester basis. A reasonable effort is made to assure the assignment of courses to more senior part-time faculty who are fully qualified by virtue of their education, training, work experience as related to current technology and pedagogical techniques, and who have had a history of successful performance at Oakton College.
  • All assignments are conditioned on sufficient enrollment. Once a course starts, the part time faculty member is expected to complete the course.
  • Please contact hr@oakton.edu if you have any questions or experience problems in submitting your application.
  • Oakton is accessible by public transportation.
  • This position requires availability to teach in the evening and/or on the weekends. - Yes
  • This position requires availability to teach on both the Des Plaines and Skokie. - Yes
  • This position requires availability to teach online. - Yes