Contributing Faculty - Physical Therapy
About The Position
The University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences (USAHS) seeks a contributing faculty member to provide engaging, clinically-focused learning opportunities for students in health science professions. This role can involve face-to-face, blended, and/or online delivery methods. The faculty member will maintain expertise in their content area, promote student success through engagement, and manage all course requirements to meet program deadlines. Responsibilities include preparing and delivering course content, monitoring student progress with feedback, facilitating learning activities, and serving as a liaison between students and the university. The role also involves assessing student performance, communicating with program directors about student issues, ensuring content consistency in multi-section courses, and completing annual self-evaluations with goal setting for improvement. Faculty are expected to keep course content current and aligned with university policies, recommend course improvements, and promote professionalism and inter-professional dialogue. Collaboration with departments to support a positive team environment and upholding university core values, policies, and procedures are also key aspects of the position. Some travel may be required.
Requirements
- A minimum of 3 years of clinical experience in the area of course content required
- Working knowledge of educational theory and methodology
- Faculty Members must be appropriately credentialed, possess an earned degree from an accredited institution or recognized by a country's ministry of education in the discipline being taught, and be licensed or license-eligible in order to teach in specific programs.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with distance learning preferred.
- Prior teaching experience preferred [could include online]
- Experience in scholarly activity preferred.
Responsibilities
- Maintains expertise in content area
- Promotes student success through optimal student engagement
- Completes all course management requirements to meet program deadlines
- Prepares and delivers course content
- Monitors student progress; gives feedback as appropriate
- Facilitates student participation in learning activities
- Serves as student-to-university liaison
- Reports student outcomes and uses this information for teaching and learning improvements
- Assesses student performance on papers/examinations/projects
- Communicates with program director (and course coordinator if teaching a multi-section course) regarding student difficulties or issues that arise
- Ensures consistent content and testing, if a multi-section course
- Completes annual self-evaluation of teaching performance; sets goals for improvement
- Keeps course content current and as necessary, aligned with course consistency policy
- Recommends course improvements for upcoming semester
- Promotes professionalism by modeling such behaviors inside and outside the classroom setting; promotes inter-professional dialog
- Collaborates with necessary departments to support a positive team environment
- Upholds University core values, policies and procedures
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Career Level
Mid Level
