Sessional Faculty
5 months ago
**Position Job Title**:Sessional Faculty Positions (Undergraduate)
**Location**:Vancouver
**Reports To**:Department Chair
University Canada West has opened a new campus at Vancouver House and is experiencing significant growth. We are searching for psychology instructors to instruct various courses within the ACSS department. Experience teaching in both traditional classroom settings and online is preferred. Work availability is contingent on enrollment for any given term. This posting is to establish a pool of instructors who may be offered a contract.
Specifically, we are seeking a passionate learner-centered sessional faculty with specializations to teach:
**PSYCHOLOGY**:
PSYC 103: Biological & Cognitive Psychology
PSYC 104: Developmental, Personality, Social & Clinical Psychology
PSYC 230: Brain & Behaviour
**About University Canada West**
UCW is a business and technology oriented, teaching intensive university and has the fastest growing MBA program in Canada. Balanced with a BCOM degree, a BA in Business Communications and an AA degree, UCW offers students a solid grounding in academic knowledge and skills, interactive, experiential education in business and digital literacy skills. Faculty are responsible for interactive engaging teaching, staying active in their field through scholarly activities, and serving their Departments and the UCW university community through committee work. Responsibilities include working with colleagues to develop or modify the curriculum, preparing and updating course materials, teaching, working with students to improve their knowledge and career readiness skills, assessing student progress through grading assignments, papers, exams and other work, and maintaining current about changes and innovations in your field and related teaching implications (examples, activities, approaches).
**Specific Responsibilities**
Faculty will:
- Create a positive classroom and learning environment through effective student engagement
- Provide constructive feedback to facilitate student learning and achievement
- Guide class discussions while encouraging debate, critical thinking and constructive feedback by students
- Employ and further develop skills in academic technologies and tools to enhance and support student learning
- Ensure teaching design and methods comply with pedagogical and UCW standards
- Assess student achievement of learning outcomes using a variety of assessments and learning activities
- Develop, revise and adapt appropriate learning resources for students
- Make appropriate student referrals to academic and personal university support programs as and when needed
- Contribute to high quality curriculum development and revision
- Maintain contacts with relevant industry and professional associations
- Attend and participate in department and university faculty meetings pertinent to faculty responsibilities
- Contribute to professional conferences, seminars, and workshops in your field of expertise and in teaching and learning
- Remain current in technical knowledge and instructional delivery approaches and techniques
- Participate in professional development workshops, seminars and training and maintain your own continuing professional development
- Conduct further research into their specific field of knowledge and/or scholarship of teaching and learning
- Depending on expertise, instruct in a range of programs such as in the ACBSP accredited BCom & MBA programs, or in the BA Business Communications or Associate of Arts degrees
- Maintain currency and aspire for excellence in instructional methods and practices
- Ensure efficient use of available class time and maintain appropriate office hours to ensure student consultation availability
- Maintain respectful professional relationships
- Participate in program design and evaluation as required
- Contribute constructively and proactively to the ACSS department
**General Requirements and Competencies for All Faculty**
Minimum:
- Master’s degree in a relevant discipline
- Demonstrated experience in effective teaching at the post-secondary level
- Willing to use or learn to use, academic technology and tools to enhance and support student learning
- Ability to teach in face-to-face, blended and online environments
- Ability to employ active learning, experiential learning and learner centered approaches to teaching
- Demonstrated ability and commitment to cultivating equitable and inclusive learning environments
- Demonstrated ability to teach students with diverse social identities and backgrounds
- Effective time management skills
- Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication skills
Preferred:
- Terminal degree in a relevant discipline PhD/DBA
- 5+ years experience post-secondary teaching in face-to-face, blended and online environments
- Experience in teaching students with diverse social identities and backgrounds
- Demonstrated experience employing active learning, experiential l
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