Application Pool Notice
Laredo College continuously accepts applications for part-time (adjunct) instructors to create a pool of candidates for each session/semester. Applications will be reviewed and positions will be filled based on department needs. Applications received for this pool will remain active for one year.
Position Requirements
Upon employment, candidate must reside in the state of Texas.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Provide instruction and monitor teaching/learning effectiveness in courses assigned by the Department Chair, Dean of Arts and Sciences, or Provost/Vice-President of Academic Affairs and in which the instructor has appropriate qualifications. Use up-to-date content and pedagogical skills to ensure active participation and learning by students.
Characteristic Duties and Responsibilities
1. Course Organization and Management
- Develop, evaluate, and revise course objectives to ensure instructional quality and curriculum alignment with THECB’s ACGM and/or WECM, SACSCOC Principles and Standards, and other applicable accrediting agency standards and outcomes.
- Utilize the Laredo College Learning Management System (LMS), known as CANVAS, to organize and publish all current instructional materials prior to the first day of classes.
- Maintain an accurate and updated syllabus through Concourse each term/semester.
- Maintain students’ attendance records, submit grades and grade distribution sheets on time, and provide timely constructive feedback to students.
- Follow procedures and the academic calendar related to the Office of the Registrar, including grade reports and deadlines, attendance records reports, withdrawal deadlines, class changes, and time and room scheduling.
- Counsel students and notify students or counselors of frequent absences, failures, or necessary make-up work (when applicable).
2. Effective Delivery of Curriculum and Instruction
- Deliver curriculum in conjunction with LC policies, ensuring course rigor, academic integrity, and quality of instruction.
- Review and revise curriculum and instructional materials.
- Ensure courses and educational programs align with transfer frameworks and workforce placement to meet current industry demands.
- Utilize a variety of teaching techniques to assess student learning needs. Integrate real-life situations into learning experiences to encourage critical thinking, interdisciplinary skills, active learning, and teamwork.
- Use technology appropriately to design and support relevant learning activities that develop students' understanding of discipline-specific thinking practices and create academic literacy.
- Consider individual differences of students to design and support a range of appropriate learning activities.
3. Assess Student Learning and Pedagogical Methods that Drive Continuous Improvement
- Collaborate with colleagues, chairs, deans, and the provost/vice-president of academic affairs across the institution to continue improving measurable learning outcomes, including the THECB (Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board) core curriculum objectives and other applicable accrediting agency standards and outcomes, and participate in Institutional Effectiveness/Program Reviews.
- Appropriately measure and assess ACGM and WECM end-of-course learning outcomes and any applicable accrediting agency standards and competencies.
- Design and align assessments with learning objectives and opportunities that measure or demonstrate student academic achievement.
- Regularly assess student performance and provide timely constructive feedback.
- Evaluate teaching and assessment practices to continue improving them.
4. Faculty Non-teaching Responsibilities
- Hold at least 30 minutes of office hours per class, 15 minutes before and 15 minutes after each lecture, laboratory, or activity class meeting.
- Meet all assigned classes in the designated classrooms on time and hold office hours during the conference period/planning block. Conference period/planning block times must be listed on the syllabus and in Canvas (when applicable).
- Complete all evaluation measures, Title IX, and other training the institution provides.
- Attend meetings called by the college Department Chairperson/Program Director/Director or the Office of Dual Enrollment (when applicable).
5. Professional Development
- Shall participate in mandatory professional development activities required by the college, division, and department.
6. Faculty Departmental Responsibilities
- Assist in submitting assessment plans for their respective discipline and/or program, which includes program reviews, course assessments, and institutional effectiveness reports.
- Faculty must participate in department, discipline-specific, and college activities and serve and be active in department, college, cross-college, discipline-specific, and /or district committees.
- Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders such as other higher education institutions, program advisory council meetings, and public and private K-12 schools/districts.
- Participate in the development and implementation of retention and persistence plans.
7. College-wide Participation
- Participate in assessment and compliance practices such as Quality Enhancement Plan, General Education, SACSCOC IE assessment, and/or other accreditation processes.
- May participate in community advisory councils on behalf of the college’s interests.
8. Perform other duties assigned by the Department Chairperson, Program Director, or Director, respective Dean, Associate Provost (when applicable), Provost/Vice-President of Academic Affairs, and President.
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Teach courses in the designated discipline in the following modalities: face-to-face (completely on campus) or hybrid (on campus and online).
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Instructors may be required to teach at Fort McIntosh, South, and high school campuses. Depending on departmental and student needs, instruction may be scheduled during daytime, evening, or weekend hours.
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Direct library research or other outside assignments.
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Encourage students to utilize campus resources such as the Library, Tutoring Center, Counseling Center, and other support services.
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Communicate required course materials to Library and Writing Center staff to support student access and success when needed.
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Provide a safe learning environment for students and be responsible for securing assigned equipment, materials, and classrooms.
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Substitute for colleagues as needed.
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Follow established procedures for requesting instructional supplies and submitting absence reports promptly.
NOTICE: Required Documents
To be considered for this position, you are required to upload your resume and unofficial transcript(s). In addition, if a license or certificate is required for this position, upload proof of your current license/certificate.
Required:
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Master’s degree in English or Master’s degree with a minimum of 18 graduate semester hours in English. Graduate coursework hours must be aligned with the course learning outcomes that the instructor will be teaching.
Preferred:-
Teaching experience in Higher Education.
Supervision Exercised
Students in the classroom, lab, and/or clinical sites.
Supervision Received
Department Chairperson, Dean of Arts and Sciences, Provost/Vice-President of Academic Affairs, and President
Physical Requirements
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit.
The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, stoop, kneel, or crouch.
The employee must occasionally lift and/or move items weighing up to 50 pounds.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Work Environment
Work is performed in a standard office environment.
Work-inside a well-lighted and air-conditioned area most of the time.
The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet to moderate.
Safety
Required to work safely and follow safety rules.
Report unsafe working conditions and behavior.
Take reasonable and prudent actions to prevent others from engaging in unsafe practices.
Special Conditions
Immediate supervisor may assign other duties.
May be required to work outside regular working hours, as needed.
May be required to work at a different college work site or campus as needed.
EEO Statement
In compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Executive Order 11246 and Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Laredo College is open to all persons regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability, or national origin who are otherwise eligible for admission as students. Furthermore, Laredo College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and no applicant or employee will be discriminated against because of race, color, religion, sex, age, marital status, disability or national origin. This institution will not enter knowingly into any contractual agreement for services or supplies with any firm failing to follow fair employment practices.
Foreign Degrees
Foreign degrees require an evaluation for United States equivalency from an approved stated education agency or having membership with the National Association of Credential Evaluation Services (NACES). Transcripts issued outside the United States of America require a course-by-course analysis with an equivalency statement from a certified transcript evaluation service verifying the degree equivalency to that of an accredited institution within the USA. This report must be attached to your online application at the time of applying. For your convenience, we have provided the following links to assist you in complying with this requirement. However, you may use any other certified transcript evaluation service. http://tea.texas.gov/Texas_Educators/Certification/Out-of-State_Certification/Foreign_Credential_Evaluation_Services/ http://www.naces.org/members.htm
Disclaimer
The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it intended to be an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. LC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by LC as its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
