Common use of Teaching Faculty Members’ Teaching workloads may vary Clause in Contracts

Teaching Faculty Members’ Teaching workloads may vary. The normal course load for a Teaching Faculty Member with a seventy percent (70%) Teaching load responsibility is the equivalent of a maximum of seven (7) standard courses per year. Workloads shall be consistent with norms in the discipline. In assigning this component of a Teaching Faculty Member’s workload and whether there will be any variation in the number of courses, the ▇▇▇▇ shall consider the following factors: i. the career stage of the Teaching Faculty Member; ii. the Teaching Faculty Member’s area of expertise; iii. class size; iv. the number of separate courses/sections taught by the Teaching Faculty Member; v. whether the course or lab is team taught; vi. the number of scheduled contact hours per course; vii. whether the course is to be delivered in a compressed timeframe (e.g., in the spring/summer Academic Term); viii. whether or not the Teaching Faculty Member has ever taught the material before; ix. whether or not the material or course being taught is newly developed; x. whether the mode of delivery for the course has been changed; xi. what is appropriate and reasonable for the discipline; xii. the number of hours of student counseling/advising; xiii. the number of undergraduate student projects supervised, capstone students, internships, independent study students, clinical supervisions, and undergraduate thesis students; xiv. the extent of teaching support provided by teaching assistants and similar personnel; xv. the extent of support provided for designing, setting up, and preparing for Teaching; and xvi. co-supervision of graduate students.

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Sources: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement