Dual Credit Adjunct Faculty, Chemistry

Position Summary

Adjunct Faculty are professional educators who work on a limited basis and have the primary responsibility of fulfilling Texas Southmost College’s (TSC) mission, vision, values and goals of providing a quality education within a fully digital learning environment 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 College’s policies and procedures.

• 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 accurate syllabi are developed that incorporate departmental, college and instructor requirements; maintain attendance records, submit grades, and provide constructive feedback; conduct classes punctually and in accordance with the prescribed meeting schedule.
• Deliver effective instruction by assuming primary responsibility for curriculum development in conjunction with the College’s policies and procedures, ensuring both rigor and quality of instruction; design and support a range of appropriate learning activities; use the College’s digital learning solution to meet course objectives; communicate clearly to students the expectations concerning the use of technology.
• 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.
• 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 TSC objectives.
• Assess student learning by designing assessments that measure or demonstrate student growth; sequence learning opportunities throughout advising, courses and programs; align 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 teaching activities.
• Support TSC’s institutional effectiveness program by understanding the preparation and evaluation of Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs); complete all mandatory performance evaluation measures within specified time limits; share best practices with colleagues; strive 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 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.
• Working hours may include evenings or weekends.
• Use interpersonal skills and make sound judgments to decide how duties and responsibilities are completed between coworkers, the…