Lifelong Wellness Dance Aerobics Adjunct Instructor

Overview

Lifelong Wellness Dance Aerobics Adjunct Instructor

Position Title Lifelong Wellness Dance Aerobics Adjunct Instructor

Employee Group Faculty

Status Part-time Faculty for Fall and Winter

Position Accountabilities and Essential Functions

The successful candidate must demonstrate experience, skills, and commitment to fostering an environment of
belonging, diversity, equity and inclusion
.

Instructor needed to teach LWA 153 Dance Aerobics. The class meets Fridays from 10 am – 11:55 am every Fall and Winter semester.

LWA 153 – Dance Aerobics

Credits: 1

Instructional Contact

Hours:

2

Provides information and skills needed to assess and improve fitness through the use of aerobic dance, exercises to music, and analysis of personal nutrition habits.

Outcomes and Objectives:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the health-related components of fitness as they relate to wellness.
• Identify activities and criteria that meet the FITT principle for each component.
• Explore how the FITT principles of the five health-related components of fitness can impact student’s overall wellness.
• Describe how the health-related components of fitness impact chronic disease risk.
• Demonstrate an understanding of healthy nutrition.
• List all macronutrients along with their caloric values, healthy food sources, relationship to healthy diet, and roles in the body.
• Explain the importance of micronutrients and their role in a healthy diet.
• Demonstrate an ability to think critically about nutritional claims and differentiate myth from fact.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major muscle groups.
• Identify the location of the major muscles groups.
• Give examples of exercises to strengthen the major muscle groups.
• Demonstrate an understanding of heart rate training.
• Demonstrate how to take, monitor, and calculate resting heart rates, exercise heart rates, and training zones.
• Explain how the training zones impact cardiovascular training principles.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions of wellness.
• Identify and define the dimensions of wellness.
• Explain, with examples from their lives, what contributes to or detracts from the various dimensions of wellness.
• Demonstrate various dance aerobic training exercises using safe and proper technique as a means to improving fitness.
• Describe the importance of a warm-up and cool-down.
• Demonstrate an understanding of various dance aerobic training programs and principles.

Required Qualifications

• Associate’s Degree in Health Fitness or Nutrition Related

Additional Experiences Considered

• Group Fitness Instructor Certification
• Previous experience leading group exercise

Position will remain open until filled. The College reserves the right to close the recruitment process once a sufficient applicant pool has been identified.

Complete an online application and attach a cover letter with position title, resume, and copies of transcripts (official transcripts required upon hire) and/or certifications and licenses.

Required fields are indicated with an asterisk (*).

Required Documents

• Resume
• Cover Letter
• Transcript 1

Optional Documents

• Transcript 2
• Transcript 3
• Letter of Recommendation 1
• Letter of Recommendation 2
• Letter of Recommendation 3
• Professional Certifications or Licensures