Lifelong Wellness Adjunct Instructor - Pickleball Job Listing at Delta College in University Center, MI (Job ID 6591)

Description

The successful candidate must demonstrate experience, skills, and commitment to fostering an environment of belonging, diversity, equity and inclusion in student, faculty and staff.

Instructor needed to teach LWA 138 Pickleball. This course introduces the basic strokes in pickleball along with rules, strategies, and courtesies of the game.

OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES:

• Demonstrate an understanding of the health-related components of fitness as they relate to wellness.
• Identify activities and criteria that meet the FITT principle for each component.
• Explore how the FITT principles of the five health-related components of fitness can impact student's overall wellness.
• Describe how the health-related components of fitness impact chronic disease risk.
• Demonstrate an understanding of healthy nutrition.
• List all macronutrients along with their caloric values, healthy food sources, relationship to healthy diet, and roles in the body.
• Explain the importance of micronutrients and their role in a healthy diet.
• Demonstrate an ability to think critically about nutritional claims and differentiate myth from fact.
• Demonstrate knowledge of major muscle groups.
• Identify the location of the major muscles groups.
• Give examples of exercises to strengthen the major muscle groups.
• Demonstrate an understanding of heart rate training.
• Demonstrate how to take, monitor, and calculate resting heart rates, exercise heart rates, and training zones.
• Explain how the training zones impact cardiovascular training principles.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dimensions of wellness.
• Identify and define the dimensions of wellness.
• Explain, with examples from their lives, what contributes to or detracts from the various dimensions of wellness.
• Explain the basic rules and concepts of the game of pickleball.
• Demonstrate safe and proper techniques of the game of pickleball as a means to improving fitness.
• Describe the importance of a warm-up and cool-down.
• Demonstrate an understanding of various pickleball skills and drills.

• Associate Degree – Health Field or Nutrition Related
• Pickleball Instructor Certification

• Bachelors Degree – Exercise Science or Nutrition Related
• Pickleball Coaching or Teaching Experience

Special Instructions

Complete an on-line application and attach a cover letter with position title, resume, three current names of professional references, and copies of transcripts (official transcripts required upon hire) and/or certifications and licenses.Required Documents

1. Resume
2. Cover Letter
3. Transcript 1

Optional Documents

1. Letter of Recommendation 1
2. Letter of Recommendation 2
3. Letter of Recommendation 3
4. Professional Certifications or Licensures
5. Transcript 2
6. Transcript 3

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