Welding Instructor-AAI

Job Summary

Instructors are responsible for delivering educational materials through sound educational practices, focusing on the academic development of students. They engage students, provide support, and adhere to the Ancora Education Mission and Core Values.

Key Responsibilities

• Utilize classroom and lab instruction, student assessment mechanisms, and classroom management techniques to provide an engaged educational experience.
• Ensure students have been presented with the material to meet course learning objectives.
• Ensure instructional materials and equipment are ready, sufficient, and in good working order.
• Participate in ongoing faculty assessment and professional development activities.
• Actively participate in meetings, review and analyze assessment data, compile reports, and meet academic and administrative deadlines.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant federal, state, and regulatory guidelines.
• Other duties as assigned.

Experience and Education Required

• Where required, must have an active certification or licensure.
• At least 5 years industry experience within the last 10 years.
• Non-Degree and Occupational Associate Degrees: a minimum of three (3) years’ practical work experience in the field of instruction.
• Academic Associate or Bachelor's Degree: minimum four (4) years’ practical work experience in the field of instruction and possess a related degree at least at the same level as the course being taught.
• All online faculty must have a master's degree in the content area or a master's degree with a minimum of 18 semester/24 quarter graduate credit hours in the content area.
• Exceptional cases: eight (8) years’ practical work experience may be substituted for practical work experience and justified by the campus.
• General Education courses: master’s degree with appropriate academic coursework and preparation in the subject area(s) taught – 18 semester hours of coursework at any credential level in the subject.
• Some states require 18 semester hours at the master’s level.
• Prior to beginning to teach, instructors either need to have documented prior teaching experience or complete the new instructor training.
• Ability to qualify as an instructor per institutional and accreditation standards.
• Previous experience teaching in a proprietary education setting preferred.

Experience and Education Preferred

• Knowledge of federal, state, and accreditation regulations applicable to the proprietary education industry.

Physical Demands

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk or hear; taste or smell.
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
• Work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is usually not exposed to weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Work Environment

• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is usually not exposed to weather conditions.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.