**I. Promotes and Maintains a Positive Learning Environment**
* Maintains a thorough knowledge and understanding of all school policies, and adheres to and upholds their implementation and enforcement.
* Convenes all assigned classes in accordance with their start and end times.
* Maintains a safe environment for all students, faculty, and staff.
* Safeguards materials, records, and equipment.
* Participates in campus-wide initiatives in support of recruitment, retention, graduation, and other institutional effectiveness goals on an individual and team basis.
* Attends school functions including staff meetings, in-service training, faculty meetings, orientation, graduation, and special student activities and school events as required. Serves on standing committees as appointed.
* Completes an annual self-evaluation and participates in the performance appraisal process.
* Abides by all Federal, state, and accreditation/compliance rules and regulations.
* Serves as a professional role model to students.
* Inspires student confidence in school, faculty, and self.
* Adheres to the Employee Handbook, Faculty Guide, Catalog, and other school policy and procedure and any amendments thereto.
* Demonstrates commitment to interdepartmental cooperation.
* Maintains professional dress and demeanor.
* Maintains appropriate confidentiality when working with students, records, and administrative staff.
* Maintains an attitude of enthusiasm and willingness to cooperate and collaborate.
* Interacts with students and fellow employees in a courteous, professional, and positive manner.
* Treats students with fairness, impartiality, and objectivity.
* Provides advance notification regarding lateness, absence, and vacation schedules during time of substitute assignment.
**II. Fulfills Administrative Responsibilities**
* Maintains and posts office hours for the purpose of student advisement and tutoring.
* Maintains accurate, up-to-date records of student progress, performance, and attendance, using the tools and technology provided by the institution, as required by school policy and procedure.
* Maintains appropriate confidentiality when working with students, records, and administrative staff.
* Contacts absent students on a daily basis via telephone.
* Ensures mid-term and final student grades are submitted in accordance with school policy. Submits a mid-term report of students whose grade point averages are below a "C" at the conclusion of the sixth week of classes.
* Maintains flexibility in fulfilling the instructional needs of the school.
**III. Focuses on Curriculum and Instruction**
* Participates in the curriculum development and monitoring process.
* Makes recommendations for additions to, or upgrading of, curriculum, course materials, equipment, and textbooks.
* Recommends library/resource center acquisitions; assists the Librarian in culling the library collection.
* Shares course materials and insights with other faculty members.
* Participates in Advisory Board meetings.
* Keeps up-to-date and in contact with local employers regarding appropriateness of course/program content.
**IV. Professional Development**
* Remains current with developments within the area of instructional responsibility through memberships in professional organizations, seminars, workshops, and continuing education courses.
* Regularly participates in professional development activities and provides documentation of these activities.
* Participates in scheduled quarterly in-service and training activities.
**V. Manages the Classroom/Laboratory**
* Provides students with a full understanding of course objectives (syllabus, course outlines, and course materials/equipment) on the first day of class and throughout the course.
* Maintains appropriate classroom control while utilizing a variety of teaching methods and strategies to meet the needs of varying student learning styles.
* Maintains records of course preparation (lesson plans, etc.) and evaluation tools (examinations, quizzes, project/portfolio assignments, etc.), and submits as required.
* Holds class for full duration of scheduled hours, and facilitates effective use of class time.
* Ensures that all course materials and objectives are presented to accomplish the objectives on the official curriculum syllabus.
* Maintains consistent performance when dealing with all students with respect to grading, documentation, policies, and discipline.
* Provides the Director of Education or his or her designee with regular feedback relative to class and student progress and/or problems and concerns.
* Provides the student with timely information on his or her academic progress relative to quizzes, exams, homework, and projects; review progress with students on a regular basis, well in advance of the end of a term.
* Ensures the classroom/laboratory facility is left in a clean and orderly manner upon conclusion of scheduled session.
* Actively enforces school policies, such as on-line/computer usage, dress code, etc. at all times.
**VI. Delivers Instructional Material**
* Facilitates classroom activities in a manner that is consistent with the course syllabus and outline.
* • Utilizes active learning techniques to maintain a challenging learning environment for students; utilizes a variety of media/audio-visual/technology materials to achieve course goals and objectives, and to engage students representing variety of student learning styles.
* Provides students with class/laboratory objectives daily.
* Assists with exemption/challenge exams for specific courses in teaching field.
* Publishes availability for individual tutoring and remediation.
* Utilizes effective delivery skills (e.g., eye contact, voice intonation, and various questioning techniques).
* Draws on personal experiences to relate the material presented.
* Utilizes additional community resources in instruction (i.e., field trips, presentations by guest speakers) relevant to course objectives.
* Utilizes library resources in classroom activities.
* Ensures appropriate development of student portfolio pieces.
* Continually promotes the development and effective use of higher cognitive level/critical thinking skills in students.
* Maintains a minimally acceptable overall customer satisfaction rating on the student satisfaction survey instrument in accordance with campus goals.
* Maintains a minimally acceptable rating on classroom observation results.
**VII. Conducts Laboratory/Clinic/Practicum Activities**
* Assigns laboratory activities that coincide with the material presented in lecture sessions as appropriate.
* Presides over all scheduled laboratory activities and hours.
* Ensures that time is spent productively by students working on appropriate assignments.
* Provides the opportunity for individual student attention.
* Evaluates students and provides them specific feedback.
* Provides additional assignments/projects as student progress dictates.
* Orders supplies as needed by following school procedure.
* Assists in maintaining a clean lab and clean equipment.
* Conducts initial troubleshooting measures on equipment and promptly label and reports all equipment in need of repair.
* Provides adequate safety measures for students and security measures to ensure safety of laboratory equipment.