Instructor, Emergency Medical Sciences Program

About the role

Faculty are professional educators who have the primary responsibility of fulfilling the Texas Southmost College’s ( TSC ) mission, vision, values and goals of providing a quality education for all students enrolled at the College. The relationship of the faculty member to the student is one of leader, teacher, advisor, and facilitator of learning. Faculty members are responsible to the College President through a chain of command and accountable to the College’s policies and procedures.

Responsibilities

• Strive for continual improvement of student success by planning an optimal learning environment
• Provide high quality instruction and advising
• Participate in the development of learning outcomes and in the assessment of students as well as of self and applied teaching techniques to increase effectiveness
• Engage in ongoing professional development
• Manage learning environments by ensuring that accurate syllabi are developed that incorporate departmental, college and instructor requirements
• Maintain attendance records, submit grades, and provide constructive feedback as well as other relevant information to students throughout the semester
• Conduct classes punctually and in accordance with the prescribed meeting schedule
• Assume primary responsibility for curriculum development in conjunction with the College’s policies and procedures, ensuring both rigor and the quality of instruction
• Consider individual differences of students in order to design and support a range of appropriate learning activities
• Use the College’s digital learning solution to meet the objectives of courses
• Communicate clearly to students the expectations concerning the use of the College’s digital learning solution and other available technologies
• Enhance the student’s learning experience by integrating concrete, real-life situations into learning experiences to encourage critical thinking, interdisciplinary skills and teamwork
• Employ methods that develop student understanding of discipline-specific thinking, practices and procedures, as well as interdisciplinary applications, to create academic literacy
• Work with students and employers in occupational settings as required by or appropriate to the academic discipline
• Collaborate with colleagues across the College in the construction and continuous improvement of measurable learning outcomes to include the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board (THECB) core curriculum objectives and additional Texas Southmost College’s objectives
• Assess student learning by designing assessments that measure or demonstrate student growth
• Sequence learning opportunities throughout advising, courses and programs to build student understanding and knowledge
• Align assessment with learning opportunities
• Promote continual improvement as part of the cycle of teaching and learning by developing and revising curriculum as needed