What are the responsibilities and job description for the Instructor, Mathematics (9 month) position at Lake-Sumter State College?
Job Summary
Dynamic and Engaging Opportunity Awaits You for the Fall 2025 semester!
Are you ready to bring your expertise to life in the vibrant world of academia? Join our team as a faculty member at Lake-Sumter State College (LSSC) where innovation meets education in an environment pulsating with energy and excitement! LSSC faculty ignite the minds of our diverse student body through dynamic lectures, interactive discussions, and hands-on experiences.Join us in shaping the future of our students by fostering a supportive and inclusive learning environment based on LSSC’s core values of Communication, Collaboration, Care, and Celebrate!
The passion for your expertise is the catalyst to a dynamic educational journey for our students and their future success.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Works 35 hours per week, which includes 15 classroom instructional hours, 10 office or student contact hours, and 10 hours service to the college and community for a nine-month period.
- Design learning activities and materials that foster faculty-student interaction and facilitate student engagement, active learning, critical thinking, and achievement of prescribed course outcomes.
- Incorporates feedback from students, faculty, and employers of students to maintain modernization of course content.
- Employ methods that facilitate active learning and develop students’ high order cognitive skills, such as analyzing, evaluating, and creating.
- Deliver instruction effectively to foster student success as measured by student course completion rates, performance on learning outcomes and documented learning gains, performance in related subsequent coursework, and external tests or certifications as applicable.
- Design and conduct timely (including at least one within the first two weeks of class) assessment strategies that effectively measure the student achievement of prescribed course outcomes.
- Foster communication with students outside of class meeting times.
- Follow college policies and procedures for administering and encouraging participation in student surveys of instruction in all course sections taught for the purpose of receiving summative and formative feedback to inform revisions to instructional expertise.
- Analyze student ratings of instruction and other student feedback about instructional expertise, identify areas for improvement and implement an action plan to accomplish that improvement.
- Assists with registration and/or recruitment.
- Engages in retention initiatives that support successful student completion and graduation.
- Attends all scheduled or called meetings by the President, Vice President of Academic Affairs, Deans, or LSSC supervisor, unless excused by the administrator in charge.
- Keep accurate and up-to-date records; meet reporting deadlines.
- Maintain continuity of communication with students, community, faculty, staff, and supervisors through timely replies to meeting, phone, mail, and email requests.
- Complete professional development focused on: currency of knowledge in academic discipline, currency in methods of teaching and learning, currency in instructional technology.
- Complies with appropriate administrative rules/regulations and Board Policy.
- Participate in an annual evaluation process as specified by the Vice President of Academic Affairs.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
- Adhere to all workplace safety rules, safety laws, regulations, standards, and practices.
- Ability to work various hours including nights, early morning, and weekends.
- Ability to travel amongst various campuses and attend College events, or off campus, as required.
Minimum Qualifications & Education
- Master's Degree in the teaching discipline, or Master’s with 18 graduate semester hours in the teaching discipline.
Lake-Sumter State College provides a wide range of affordable, competitive, and comprehensive benefits that are a vital part of your total compensation package. These programs are centered around health and wellness, financial security, and professional development.
