Instructional Objectives. In the interest of continuing to provide quality education, this Agreement contemplates an instructional program which will be designed to achieve an average weekly student contact per Full-Time Instructor equivalent at the first census count each semester of 596 hours for a 16 week term. The program design anticipates the implementation of innovative approaches to instruction, such as open laboratories, individualized instruction, team teaching, differentiated class sizes, and the use of support personnel to assist Faculty Members engaged in special programs. It also entails experimental classes devised by the Division Load Committees established pursuant to Section 7 of this Article. Division Load Committees shall study the effects of class size variations upon educational effectiveness and include such analysis in a Committee report to the Division faculty.
Instructional Objectives. In the interest of continuing to provide quality education for each tax dollar expended, this Agreement contemplates an instructional program which will be designed to achieve an average weekly student contact per Full-Time Instructor equivalent at the first census count each semester of 530 hours. The program design anticipates the implementation of innovative approaches to instruction, such as open laboratories, individualized instruction, team teaching, differentiated class sizes, and the use of support personnel to assist Faculty Members engaged in special programs. It also entails experimental classes devised by the Division Load Committees established pursuant to Section 8 of this Article. The Committees shall study the effects of class size variations upon educational effectiveness and include such analysis in a Committee report to the Division faculty.
