Senior teacher of the university: job description, duties and work peculiarities

If you were a student, the words "rector", "dean", "professor", "associate professor" are guaranteed to cause you nostalgia and awe. And it is very difficult to explain these terms to the "non-student". However, many people forget about one more post, which is in each institution, the senior teacher. Understand its functions is not easy. What is the difference between a senior teacher and a teacher? And how is he connected with the senior lecturer? Let's try to answer all these questions.

Whom do we take?

The post of the senior teacher can be occupied by the person with the higher vocational training and the experience of scientific and pedagogical work for 3 years and more. If the applicant already has a Ph.D., the length of service may be less - 1 year.

Any senior teacher of the university is attached to a certain department, depending on their specialization. Accordingly, all his activities are related to her work.

Theoretical knowledge and training of a senior teacher

1. Like any state employee, the teacher should be guided by the Constitution of his country, the basic laws and regulations related to education and upbringing.
2. To know the theory and practical methods of managing education systems (as a potential dean or even a rector); State standards of secondary professional and higher education.
3. The teacher is obliged to have knowledge about planning and conducting educational documentation, organization of methodical and scientific work.
4. Every educator should be aware of the current state of the scientific branch of his department, study innovations and topical theories.
5. Knowledge and application in practice of methods of pedagogy, psychology and culture of communication are mandatory for the senior teacher.
6. The possession of basic information on physiology, first aid and hygiene is necessary for everyone who communicates with a large number of people in the process of work. The senior teacher is one of these positions.
7. Fundamentals of administrative legislation, fire safety and labor protection regulations are an integral part of what any conscientious employee, including a university employee, should never forget.

Thus, in her professional activities, the senior teacher of the university is guided by the laws of her country, the law on education, educational standards and curricula on the subject. The university charter and the collective agreement directly affect his job duties. Any provisions on the faculty and department, as well as the orders of the rector and vice-rectors, also determine the activities of the senior teacher.

Service hierarchy

The senior lecturer of the department in his position is between the teacher and assistant professor. Hence, his duties are also responsible for coordinating the work of teachers, consulting them on educational and scientific issues, and distributing minor duties and assignments. At the same time, he is the closest assistant to the head of the department, takes upon himself the decision of organizational issues, scientific work and organization of students' practice. What the senior lecturer offers, the senior teacher is authorized to develop and deepen.

Main duties

They are determined by the job descriptions of the senior teacher in each particular institution. However, there are general requirements for all specialists, regardless of their place of work.

• Senior teacher is obliged to organize and conduct educational and methodical work in accordance with an individual plan.
• Actively participate in the scientific research work of its department.
• To compile and develop curricula and programs for the department.
• Ensure the formation of all necessary competencies of students, ensuring their high level as professionals.
• At the proper level, teach the material and monitor the quality of the classes conducted by the teachers of the department.
• To solve questions with industrial practice of students.
• Control the quality of methodological support at the department, develop its own manuals.
• To conduct an active scientific research work, supervise students writing course and diploma works on the basis of the department.
• Participate in the professional orientation of applicants.
• Advise and provide methodological assistance to young teachers of the department.

• Provide the work of the scientific and methodological commission for this or that specialization.
• Improve and update the material and technical base of the department.
• Promote comprehensive education, acquisition of scientific, technical, general social, humanitarian, economic and legal knowledge.
• Monitor the fulfillment of students' homework, laboratory and practical work.
• Monitor student compliance with rules of conduct and fire safety.
• Conduct educational activities among students.
• To take an active part in the preparation of training, teaching aids, work programs.

If the senior teacher has created an object of intellectual property (textbook, monograph) in the performance of his official duties, the university has the full right to use it. The fruits of mental labor are always appreciated.

What does a senior teacher have the right to?

Experience and a sufficient amount of scientific and pedagogical work allow the teacher to run for the Academic Council of the university or for a separate faculty.

Also, he can offer the head of the department an amendment to the work plan of the department, the change of educational documentation and manuals.

Perfection of all kinds of the department (from training to research) is also among the rights of this specialist.

In case of conflict situations, the senior teacher, like any employee, can request from the leaders or in other instances documents regulating his rights and duties. Protecting your ideas and interests is an integral feature of work in any institution.

The senior teacher is free to choose the best teaching methods, teaching aids and materials, methods for assessing knowledge. However, all this should be approved by the dean's office and university administration.

Of course, the use of all library funds serving the units of the university is also the right of any teacher.

With good reasons and the ability to support your point of view with facts, the senior teacher can challenge the order or the order of the head of the department, the dean or the rector of the university.

Load of responsibility

The variety of duties entails a great responsibility for the senior teacher on several points:

• Inadequate level of organization and implementation of teaching and teaching and methodological work at the department.
• Less training than planning.
• Insufficiently high requirements for the preparation of students in the performance of control, course and diploma work.
• The discrepancy of the training sessions with the schedule approved by the administration.
• Administrative and criminal offenses within the limits of the current legislation.
• Causing material damage to both the department and students.
• Failure to fulfill the duties prescribed in the Charter of the university, current legal acts and job description of the teacher.

Development prospects

With active work and serious attitude to their difficult business, the senior teacher can fully count on the position of associate professor. To take it, the employee must have the necessary qualifications, confirmed by scientific publications, experience of scientific and pedagogical work in the university, recommendations of the staff of the department. The head of the department is in charge of this appointment - he recommends the candidate to the Academic Council and the administration. The meeting of the Academic Council of the university decides whether to promote the senior teacher up the difficult career ladder.

Senior Trainer-Teacher

A difficult and multifaceted position in different institutions has its own specifics. In the institutions of education, physical education and sports, the main activity of the senior teacher is combined with his coaching duties. The organization of the educational process is inextricably linked with the organization of fruitful training. For a senior coach-teacher, a professional education and experience of at least two years are mandatory. Also to the list of requirements is competence, absence of previous convictions and health problems.

Senior trainer-teacher should know the methodology of presentation of the material, as well as the features of physical development of different age groups of students. Also, he should be aware of the latest methods of sports training, diagnosis of conflict situations. Justification of their position and work with parents of pupils is an important skill of a successful trainer-teacher.

Main responsibilities include:

• Selection of the most promising pupils.
• Their further sports improvement.
• Teaching and educational work.
• Conducting theoretical studies.
• An analysis of the achievements of each pupil.
• Ensuring an increase in the level of general physical, theoretical, moral, volitional and technical training of pupils.
• Preventive work against doping.
• Ensuring the protection of life and health during the educational process.
• General coordination of work of trainers-teachers, consultations and methodical help.

The rights of a senior trainer-teacher coincide with those noted earlier.

And how are they?

In Western Europe, the senior lecturer is the senior lecturer. In the United States, this post is called Associate Professor. In general, the rights and duties of the senior lecturer coincide with those described earlier. Many Western universities emphasize the creative nature of the work of the senior teacher, his active service to society as a whole.

Briefly about the main

Mentor, educator, curator, scientific adviser - the senior teacher really should be a master of all trades. The talent for teaching should be combined in such a person with great enthusiasm and efficiency. Bad is the senior teacher, who in his dreams does not have a point of "becoming an assistant professor", and then "become a professor."