year) @ Northwood Tech Rice Lake Campus

Northwood Technical College•Rice Lake, WI

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Northwood Technical College is seeking applications from qualified candidates for a full-time General Studies - Science Instructor at the Rice Lake Campus. Northwood Tech Instructors teach in a discipline area in which they have specific training and competence. Instructors are expected to foster learner success, assess learner achievement, and continually improve learning opportunities. Instructors teach in a variety of learning environments including face-to-face, online, web-conferencing, and hybrid classrooms. Instructors are expected to continually improve the overall quality and delivery of learning, including the support of program and collegewide initiatives. Faculty teaching hours will be scheduled over fall, spring, and summer terms based on student and college needs. This position involves some duties that could be performed in a remote or off-site environment.

Requirements

Master’s degree in Life Science or related field with 18 graduate credits in life sciences, biology, biochemistry, chemistry, endocrinology, pathology, physiology, medicine, chiropractic, pharmacy, biotechnology, or a combination of credits in these disciplines (Copies of official or unofficial college transcripts required.)
Ability to obtain driver’s license and insurance coverage in accordance with College policy

Nice To Haves

One year (2,000 hours) occupational experience outside of education
Previous teaching experience
Curriculum development experience
Experience with alternative instruction delivery
Must meet FQAS requirements as detailed in Chapter TCS 3 of the WI Administrative Code

Responsibilities

Actively embody and promote Northwood Tech’s Values: Collaboration, Innovation, Excellence, Community, Support, Integrity, Respect.
Develop and continually revise curriculum that includes Employability Essentials and technical content to meet industry and/or regulatory standards.
Plan for instruction, including syllabi development, learning plans, and assessment strategies.
Deliver, assess, and adapt effective instruction that meets the needs of all students.
Apply a variety of instructional strategies, create learning plans, facilitate learning, and revise teaching practice.
Promote a culture of continuing student success, implement strategies to promote learner persistence and meet the needs of all learners, demonstrate learner-centered communication, and utilize available student support services.
Create performance-based assessment plans, employ a variety of formative and summative assessment strategies, communicate assessment results in a timely fashion to promote student learning, and use assessment results to improve instruction.
Demonstrate professional behaviors to support teaching and learning and use varied strategies for managing the learning environment.
Identify exit learning outcomes and external standards, develop competencies that describe intended learning outcomes, create performance-based plans and assessment tasks for each course, develop learning objectives and plans, prepare syllabi, and utilize a quality review process to validate curriculum.
Use a variety of data analysis tools, analyze data from teaching and learning experiences, and use data to inform decision making about the teaching and learning process.
Create and maintain an inclusive, effective learning environment that addresses barriers and provides reasonable accommodations.
May be assigned to mentor high school teachers who offer Northwood Tech-articulated courses.
Model the Employability Essentials expected of Northwood Tech students, which are to communicate clearly, demonstrate professionalism, think critically, and consider varying perspectives.
Designated as a Campus Security Authority (CSA) to receive and report criminal incidents to the Northwood Tech Safety Office by virtue of this role’s responsibilities at the College (only applies to instructor positions with club advising duties).
Perform other duties as assigned.