Teaching Professor

**Department** Faculty of Nursing - Academic Planning and Undergraduate Program

**Posted date** January 30, 2025

**Closing date** February 28, 2025

**Position Type** Full Time - Operating Funded

**Description**:
This position is a part of the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA).

This position offers a comprehensive benefits package and salary will be commensurate with experience in accordance with the Academic Teaching Staff Agreement.

**Location** - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person work at North Campus Edmonton.

**Working at the University of Alberta**
- The University of Alberta acknowledges that we are located on Treaty 6 territory, and respects the histories, languages and cultures of First Nations, Métis, Inuit and all FirstPeoples of Canada, whose presence continues to enrich our vibrant community._

The University of Alberta is a community of knowledge seekers, change makers and world shapers who lead with purpose each and every day. We are home to over 14,000 faculty and staff, more than 40,000 students and a growing community of 300,000 alumni worldwide.

Your work will have a meaningful influence on a fascinating cross-section of people — from our students and community members, to our renowned researchers and innovators, making discoveries and generating solutions that make the world healthier, safer, stronger and more just. Learn more.

**Working for the Faculty of Nursing**

The Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta is consistently ranked within the top two nursing programs in Canada and currently 9th globally (QS World University Rankings by Subject). As the largest nursing faculty in the country, we are one of only six in Canada to offer a full range of undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Our priorities include:

- Providing students with exceptional learning opportunities in undergraduate and graduate programs.
- Maintaining excellence in research through mentorship and support.
- Enhancing the integration of teaching, research and practice.
- Infusing global citizenship into all aspects of academic nursing.
- Fostering Equity, Diversity and Inclusivity (EDI) in teaching, research and practice.

**Position Summary**

Do you have a commitment to learner-centered innovative teaching and learning practices, and continuous quality improvement? Do you bring a solution-focused and strengths-based approach to teamwork and teaching? Are you able to effectively use and adapt to teaching, educational and practice technologies? If so, this may be the position for you

A Teaching Professor is an Academic Teaching Staff (ATS) position with a workload of 80% teaching and 20% service. The position will be a career status position with a full-time teaching load of up to 8 courses, dependent on credit load. A Teaching Professor under the Academic Teaching Staff Agreement shall be a scholar who:

- has teaching and/or teaching-related responsibilities as their primary academic responsibility, which shall involve University credit courses;
- actively participates in the planning, delivery and evaluation of courses specified in a manner consistent with the curriculum and operational guidelines established by the Faculty of Nursing;
- shall demonstrate scholarship and remain current and competent in the discipline or profession;
- shall contribute to service and provide evidence of contributing to the University, Faculty and/or the nursing profession beyond their teaching responsibilities.

**Duties**
- Actively contributes to the teaching team for the course(s) in their teaching assignment. This includes but is not limited to:

- Attendance at teaching team meetings;
- Participation in the development and improvement of course learning evaluation(s) such as:

- Exams (including the exam blueprint, test items and analysis);
- Assignments (including assignment descriptions and marking rubrics);
- Clinical competencies/clinical evaluation tools (as appropriate);
- Participation in the development and sharing of learning activities;
- Teaching the course concepts in a manner that ensures the stated learning outcomes and course objectives are met, and are consistent among course sections;
- Participates in ongoing and end-of-semester course evaluation and improvement efforts, including contributing to the course report;
- Engaging in peer-to-peer mentorship with other teaching team members such as coaching, teaching observations, sharing resources, best practices and constructive feedback;
- Providing mentorship to others in the teaching team and beyond.
- Assesses Curriculum
- Ensuring there is alignment to course learning outcomes, concepts, and schedule content delivery.
- Become aware of and ensure continuity of learning and leveling of curricular concepts is maintained between and among courses in the undergraduate program(s).
- Supports the learning and progression of students through courses by:

- Acting as the first line of support