Indigenous Contemporary Dance Instructor

Job Summary

Brief description of duties

(include any significant variation in duties/responsibilities as outlined in Article 5.04 of Collective Agreement)

• Design, organize and present complete course syllabus in accordance with the calendar description as approved by the Chair of the Department and the Office of the Dean of Arts & Science.
• Principal responsibility for the course (lectures, seminars and labs where applicable)
• Prepare, deliver and facilitate workshops as scheduled
• Facilitate discussion and answer student questions
• Assign and grade student work within the established timeline
• Development and administration of tests and examinations
• Invigilate examinations
• Mark and grade student work and calculate all final marks for enrolled students
• Maintain 1 or more office hours per week for student consultation outside of scheduled class time
• Prompt communication with students, Departmental Chair and Academic Administrative Assistant
• Grade breakdowns (with student info, assignment type, weighting, and grade clearly indicated) must be returned to the office by the grade submission deadline
• Exams must be returned to the department office once grading is complete
• Formal appealable work must be retained in accordance with appeals regulations (allowing time for RO to process appeal and forward to dept.), and instructor must have active contact info on file for that period
• Fulfilling any other duties associated with managing the course, such as submitting exam copies to CAT if required.
• Class times and locations are subject to change. Details can be found at: www.trentu.ca/timetable

Qualifications

PhD or equivalent in knowledge and experience is required. Indigenous Knowledge, Experience teaching Indigenous Performance, Indigenous Language valued. Teaching in multi-cultural context is an experiential requirement. Indigenous Traditional and Contemporary Dance Knowledge and related Indigenous cultural knowledge is necessary.