Contributing Faculty - Occupational Therapy

About the role

The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovation, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.

Responsibilities

• Maintains expertise in content area
• Promotes student success through optimal student engagement
• Completes all course management requirements to meet program deadlines
• Prepares and delivers course content
• Monitors student progress; gives feedback as appropriate
• Facilitates student participation in learning activities
• Serves as student-to-university liaison
• Reports student outcomes and uses this information for teaching and learning improvements
• Affirms student performance on papers/examinations/projects
• Communicates with program director (and course coordinator if teaching a multi-section course) regarding student difficulties or issues that arise
• Ensures consistent content and testing, if a multi-section course
• Completes annual self-evaluation of teaching performance; sets goals for improvement
• Keeps course content current and as necessary, aligned with course consistency policy
• Recommends course improvements for upcoming semester
• Promotes professionalism by modeling such behaviors inside and outside the classroom setting; promotes inter-professional dialog
• Collaborates with necessary departments to support a positive team environment
• Upholds University core values, policies and procedures

Qualifications

• Experience with distance learning preferred
• Terminal degree preferred. Post- professional master's degree or clinical doctorate with demonstrated clinical expertise with plans to obtain a terminal degree will be considered
• Prior teaching experience preferred [could include online]
• Experience in scholarly activity preferred
• A minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in the area of course content required
• Working knowledge of educational theory and methodology
• Licensure or license-eligibility in the discipline being taught

Benefits

Contributing Faculty are hired for specific assignments which may vary by term. Compensation is a reasonable estimate and will be determined based on course credit hours, student enrollment, and educational degree obtained.

Pay

Contributing Faculty Per Course: $259.00 - $10,506.00

Schedule

Contributing Faculty are hired for specific assignments which may vary by term.