Posting Details
Position Information Classification: Title: Job Title: Dual Credit Adjunct Faculty Physics FLSA: Exempt Location: High School Campus Position Length: Part-Time
Position Summary Information
Job Summary Adjunct Faculty are professional educators who work on a limited basis and have the primary responsibility of fulfilling the Texas Southmost Colleges TSC mission, vision, values, and goals of providing a quality education for all students enrolled at the College. The relationship of the adjunct faculty member to the student is one of leader, teacher, advisor, and facilitator of learning. Adjunct Faculty members are responsible to the College President through a chain of command and accountable to the Colleges policies and procedures.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities Categories below constitute the expectations for the adjunct faculty member. These responsibilities will be assessed utilizing student evaluations, classroom observations, and the supervisors formative and summative evaluations.
• Strive for continual improvement of student success by planning an optimal learning environment, providing high-quality instruction, and advising, participating in the development of learning outcomes, and in the assessment of students as well as of self and applied teaching techniques in order to increase effectiveness and engaging in ongoing professional development. • Manage learning environments by ensuring that accurate syllabi are developed that incorporate departmental, college, and instructor requirements, maintaining attendance records, submitting grades, and providing constructive feedback as well as other relevant information to students throughout the semester, and conducting classes punctually and in accordance with the prescribed meeting schedule. • Deliver effective instruction by assuming primary responsibility for curriculum development in conjunction with the Colleges policies and procedures, ensuring both rigor and the quality of instruction by considering individual differences of students in order to design and support a range of appropriate learning activities, by using the Colleges digital learning solution to meet the objectives of courses, and by communicating clearly to students the expectations concerning the use of the Colleges digital learning solution and other available technologies. • Enhance the students learning experience by integrating concrete real-life situations into learning experiences to encourage critical thinking, interdisciplinary skills, and teamwork, by employing methods that develop student understanding of discipline-specific thinking practices and procedures as well as interdisciplinary applications to create academic literacy, and by working 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 Colleges objectives. • Assess student learning by designing assessments that measure or demonstrate student growth by sequencing learning opportunities throughout advising courses and programs to build student understanding and knowledge, and by aligning assessment with learning opportunities. • Promote continual improvement as part of the cycle of teaching and learning by developing and revising curriculum as needed and using defined student learning outcomes to plan, develop, document, and evaluate the effectiveness of teaching activities. • Support TSCs institutional effectiveness program by understanding the preparation and evaluations of Student Learning Outcomes SLOs, completing all mandatory performance evaluation measures within specified time limits, sharing best practices with colleagues in formal and informal settings, and striving toward improved educational effectiveness. • Support learning through student engagement by creating a positive classroom atmosphere that encourages active and collaborative learning, student effort, academic challenge, student and faculty interaction, and support for learners. • Maintain a learning-centered environment by being available to students during the designated work period. • Support student learning by making students aware of and referring them to the appropriate student and academic support services available at the College. • Pursue professional development by taking graduate courses or internal classes offered by the College or professional development organizations as appropriate, and by maintaining required professional credentials, licensing, and continuing education hours as disciplinary standards dictate. • Participate collegially in discipline-specific activities developed for adjunct faculty as appropriate. • Attend the workplace regularly, report to work punctually, and follow a work schedule to keep up with the demands of the worksite, which may be on campus or at an off-site location. • Use interpersonal skills and make sound judgments to decide how duties and responsibilities are completed between coworkers, the supervisory chain, faculty, staff, students, and customers. • Support the values and institutional goals as defined in the Colleges Strategic Plan. • Complete duties and responsibilities in compliance with college standards, policies, and guidelines. • Complete all required training and professional development sessions sponsored by Texas Southmost College TSC. • Working hours may include evenings, holidays, or weekends depending on deadline requirements and special events. • Performs other duties as assigned.
Required Knowledge and Skills To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
• Strong demonstrated commitment to the mission of the community college. • Strong demonstrated commitment to quality teaching, student success, and student completion. • Demonstrated knowledge of the academic and instructional functions of the College. • Demonstrated knowledge of curriculum development, assessment, and revision. • Demonstrated knowledge in developing and monitoring student learning outcomes and student assessment strategies. • General knowledge of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. • Excellent teaching, communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills. • Skill in working effectively in a team environment with a customer service focus. • Ability to use technology in the teaching and learning process. • Ability to establish and maintain positive and effective working relationships with students, college employees, and the public. • Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions, and effectively present information. • High level of energy and good sense of humor with the capacity for extraordinary time and effort demands.
Required Education and Experience To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the education and experience required.
• Faculty teaching general education courses or teaching associate degree courses designed for transfer to a baccalaureate degree require a masters degree in the teaching discipline or a masters degree with a minimum of eighteen (18) graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline from an accredited college or university. • Experience in enhancing the students learning experience by integrating a variety of methods and strategies into the teaching process and maintaining a learning-centered environment. • Experience in collaborating with colleagues across the College in the construction and continuous improvement of measurable learning outcomes. • Demonstrated commitment to student success and completion. • Proficient in the use of technology in the teaching and learning processes and a willingness to continuously enhance the teaching and learning processes through the use of technology. • Demonstrated excellent communication, interpersonal, and leadership skills and ability to work independently. • Ability to handle sensitive and extensive confidential data. • Problem-solving skills and the ability to lead, instruct, handle a large variety of details, and to work with all levels of organization. • Ability to perform and excel in a high-tech all-digital environment. • Proficient in the use of email, word processing, spreadsheet, database, and presentation software, and use of the Internet to access data, maintain records, generate reports, and communicate with others.
Preferred Education and Experience • Teaching experience in a comprehensive community college setting. • Experience in enhancing the students learning experience by integrating a variety of methods and strategies into the teaching process and maintaining a learning-centered environment. • Experience in collaborating with colleagues across the College in the construction and continuous improvement of measurable learning outcomes.
Certificates and Licensures • Selective disciplines and technical areas have requirements as defined in each advertised position.
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. 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 frequently required to stand. • The employee is occasionally required to walk, sit, use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls, reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, talk or hear, and taste or smell. • The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. • Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed to risk of electrical shock. • The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
Notes The duties listed are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the job change. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential duties and responsibilities.
Texas Southmost College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, national origin, religion, gender, disability, age, or military status in its programs and activities and provides equal access to services and other programs at the college.
Posting Detail Information
Posting Number: 2026045TSC Open Date: 03112026 Close Date: Open Until Filled Yes
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