Common use of Hours of Instruction Clause in Contracts

Hours of Instruction. The classroom teaching load of a faculty member on full assignment shall be: (1) Teaching hours of faculty members shall be calculated on the basis of a contract classroom teaching assignment of 30 lecture or lecture- equivalent hours for an academic year (two semesters). The District will make reasonable efforts to attempt to equalize the distributions of such lecture or lecture equivalent hours between each of the two semesters. A faculty member may be assigned more than 16 or less than 14 lecture or lecture-equivalent hours per semester as her/his contract teaching load only with her/his permission. A faculty member who wishes to teach an overload during a Spring semester must first fulfill her/his entire thirty- hour lecture or lecture-equivalent hour load assignment. (2) Laboratory teaching assignments shall be in a ratio of three hours laboratory teaching to two hours of lecture teaching (.67 of a lecture hour). Laboratory teaching assignments in the labs listed in Appendix F shall be in a ratio of four hours of laboratory teaching to three hours of lecture teaching (.75 of a lecture hour). (3) Lecture-laboratory teaching assignments shall be in a ratio of four hours lecture-laboratory teaching to three hours of lecture teaching (.75 of a lecture hour). a. All coaching faculty shall meet their scheduled intercollegiate sport class during the entire semester of the season of the sport. When the sport season ends, other appropriate activities may be substituted for such class meetings with the concurrence of the Athletic Director, but in no case shall classes meet less than two

Hours of Instruction. The classroom teaching load of a faculty member on full assignment shall be: (1) Teaching hours of faculty members shall be calculated on the basis of a contract classroom teaching assignment of 30 lecture or lecture- equivalent hours for an academic year (two semesters). The District will make reasonable efforts to attempt to equalize the distributions of such lecture or lecture equivalent hours between each of the two semesters. A faculty member may be assigned more than 16 or less than 14 lecture or lecture-equivalent hours per semester as her/his contract teaching load only with her/his permission. A faculty member who wishes to teach an overload during a Spring semester must first fulfill her/his entire thirty- thirty-hour lecture or lecture-equivalent hour load assignment. (2) Laboratory teaching assignments shall be in a ratio of three hours laboratory teaching to two hours of lecture teaching (.67 of a lecture hour). Laboratory teaching assignments in the labs listed in Appendix F shall be in a ratio of four hours of laboratory teaching to three hours of lecture teaching (.75 of a lecture hour). (3) Lecture-laboratory teaching assignments shall be in a ratio of four hours lecture-laboratory teaching to three hours of lecture teaching (.75 of a lecture hour). a. All coaching faculty shall meet their scheduled intercollegiate sport class during the entire semester of the season of the sport. When the sport season ends, other appropriate activities may be substituted for such class meetings with the concurrence of the Athletic Director, but in no case shall classes meet less than two