DUTIES: Serves as an Instructor in the Department of Physical Education, primarily teaching Survival Swimming, Fundamentals of Personal Fitness, and Lifetime Physical Activities. The flexibility inherent to this role may necessitate the delivery of instruction across diverse facets of the physical education program, potentially encompassing areas such as combatives, boxing, and survival swimming.
The Survival Swimming Program is designed to develop basic survival swimming proficiency, while challenging the aquatic ability of all classifications of swimmers. The Program of Instruction (POI) for beginners, low, and high intermediates is divided into two progressive curriculum tracks: basic stroke development and combat survival swimming. Emphasis is universally focused on elements of breath control, basic locomotion, buoyancy positions, stroke instruction/refinement, and the development of theatre specific watermanship.
The Fundamentals of Personal Fitness course incorporates a variety of Health, Fitness, and Kinesiology concepts found in a higher education coursework. It emphasizes basic human physiology concepts and the mechanisms by which the body adapts to and benefits from physical training. Instructors will teach how to assess, develop, and maintain individual health and fitness as defined by the Army’s Holistic Health and Fitness (H2F) system. Instructors must effectively communicate how to optimize performance through tailored physical training, effective nutritional fueling, recovery through sound sleep habits, and the development of performance-based psychological skills.
The Lifetime Physical Activity courses are comparable to many Sport and Activity courses found in higher education coursework. LPA courses are intended to provide cadets an opportunity to learn additional sports skills which can be incorporated into lifetime fitness goals and activities. Instructors must be able to teach and demonstrate a wide range of skills and sports based on current trends, resources, instructor expertise, and cadet needs. Examples include, but are not limited to: golf, basketball, skiing/snowboarding, scuba, soccer, tennis, etc.
Additional duties will include serving as a sport educator (coach, mentor, subject matter expert) in the USMA Company Athletics (Intramural) program, administering a variety of physical fitness tests to Cadets including the Army Combat Fitness Test and the Indoor Obstacle Course Test, providing physical readiness training instruction as a member of a teaching team during Cadet Summer Training, contributing to the professional development of faculty within the department, and serving as a member of a directorate or committee assisting in administrative duties in support of the department’s mission.
Applicants will be evaluated on the following factors: 1) Academic degree in Physical Education or related field (Master’s degree or higher preferred); 2) Demonstrated ability to perform, teach and/or coach a variety of basic swimming and survival swimming skill techniques (three or more years preferred); 3) Demonstrated ability to teach a collegiate level personal fitness course (three or more years preferred); 4) Demonstrated ability to teach a variety of lifetime physical activity courses (three or more years preferred); 5) Demonstrated ability to assist and/or lead faculty professional development in basic swimming and survival swimming skill techniques (minimum of three years preferred)
