Government Instructor; Re-posted

Position: Government Instructor (Re-posted)

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Full-time faculty are essential in carrying out the college's mission, vision, core values, and institutional goals. Under the direction of the respective Department Chairperson/Program Director/Director, faculty ensure the quality and integrity of the academic programs and maintain oversight of the curriculum and instruction. The essential duties include providing a high-quality learning environment, delivering effective instruction, assessing student learning, promoting continual improvement in teaching and learning, encouraging student engagement, providing advisement, and pursuing professional development.

Faculty must participate in department, discipline-specific, college, community service activities, and shared governance. Faculty must adhere to all LC policies, procedures, and guidelines, including DH (LOCAL) Employee Standards of Conduct. Faculty are expected to adhere to the terms of their contractual agreement.

Physical Presence on Campus

The position requires office hours and physical presence on campus. Employee must reside in the Laredo area or be able to commute to campus daily.

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.

2. Effective Delivery of Curriculum and Instruction

• Assume primary responsibility for and exercise oversight of the 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 core curriculum objectives and other applicable accrediting agency standards and outcomes, 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 ten office hours, of which eight out of the ten will be physically conducted on campus. Three out of the ten office hours will be devoted to the Center of Learning, Academic, and Student Success (CLASS) for academic coaching, conducting workshops, advising,…