Class Visits Clause Samples

Class Visits. The appropriate manager and Department Chair each will make at least one (1) class, or work station, or counseling session visit; peer(s) each will make at least two (2) class or work station visits. Class visits shall be of a minimum of fifty (50) minutes duration and shall be unannounced. The evaluee should let their committee members know ahead of time if there are certain dates which should be avoided due to exams, field trips, etc.. For online classes, the faculty member who is being evaluated will establish access within the appropriate course Management System for all members of the evaluation committee. Access to the online class sessions will be established at the student level. At the request of the faculty member being evaluated, access may be established at a higher level. Access to the online class will persist begin at the first committee meeting and will terminate at the second committee meetingfor the duration of the term. In some circumstances, at the request of the faculty member being evaluated, and in addition to the minimum access to the online class discussed above, the faculty member may request to demonstrate certain features of the online class to the evaluation committee. This type of demonstration, if desired by the faculty member being evaluated, will be arranged during the first evaluation committee meeting.

Class Visits a. For each rehiring evaluation (tenure-track and long-term visiting), and each conversion evaluation, there will be two class visits in the semester prior to the evaluation. b. For each tenure and promotion evaluation, there will be one class visit in the spring semester prior to the evaluation year and one class visit in the fall semester of the evaluation year. c. For each senior evaluation of a tenured professor not being evaluated for promotion and each rehiring evaluation of a senior regular non-tenure-track faculty member, no class visit is required. d. In each evaluation case of a faculty member who is less than full time, or who takes a leave of absence when a class visit would be scheduled, the divisional chair, in consultation with the program director(s) and the ▇▇▇▇ of the college, may reschedule some or all class visits, without decreasing the number of them. e. At the beginning of each semester, the ▇▇▇▇ of the college will make a list of all faculty members scheduled for class visits. f. Each divisional chair, in consultation with the director of the relevant programs, will select class visitors for all those faculty members who need class visits, and whose teaching is primarily in that division. g. Additional class visits may be arranged by the divisional chairs, in consultation with the evaluatee, at the request of the evaluatee. h. Class visits will be arranged by the 4th Wednesday of each semester. i. Before each visit, the visitor will arrange the date for the visit with the evaluatee, and will discuss the purpose and scope of the course, texts, special procedures or techniques, and the relationship between the class visited and the whole course. j. During the class visit, the visitor should remain throughout the entire seminar, class, studio, or laboratory, unless a shorter time is agreed upon beforehand. k. The visitor will discuss the class that was visited with the evaluatee, with the aims of assisting the latter in improving his or her teaching. The visitor will make a written report of his or her observations on the conduct of the class, no later than two weeks after the class visit. A copy of the final report will be given to the evaluatee, and a copy will be placed in the evaluation file, no later than the 13th week of the semester.

Class Visits. The appropriate manager and Department Chair each will make at least one (1) class, work station, or counseling session visit; peer(s) each will make at least two (2) class, work station, or counseling session visits. Class visits and/or observations shall be of a minimum of fifty (50) minutes duration and shall be unannounced. The evaluee should let their committee members know ahead of time if there are certain dates which should be avoided due to exams, field trips, etc. For online classes, the faculty member who is being evaluated will establish access within the appropriate course Management System for all members of the evaluation committee. Access to the online class sessions will be established at the “Evaluator” level. At the request of the faculty member being evaluated, access may be established at a higher level. Access to the online class will begin at the first committee meeting and will terminate at the second committee meeting. In some circumstances, at the request of the faculty member being evaluated, and in addition to the minimum access to the online class discussed above, the faculty member may request to demonstrate certain features of the online class to the evaluation committee. This type of demonstration, if desired by the faculty member being evaluated, will be arranged during the first evaluation committee meeting. For asynchronous online classes, class visits will consist of at least 50 minutes of course observation. Parameters for the course observation must be specified during the first committee meeting via mutual agreement between the evaluation committee and the faculty member being evaluated. The course observation will include a course walkthrough via a synchronous meeting or pre-recording, and/or links to specific lectures and/or modules as requested by the evaluation committee within the evaluation time frame determined at the first committee meeting. This evaluation time frame will not exceed the time period between the first and second evaluation committee meetings. At the request of the faculty member being evaluated, broader access to their online course may be established in lieu of providing a synchronous walk-through or lecture/module links. Access will be for a set amount of time agreed upon at the first committee meeting by the faculty member being evaluated and the evaluation committee.

Class Visits. In order to assess the professional effectiveness of the Contract Instructional Faculty unit member, the Level One Tenure Review Committee shall make a minimum of three (3) classroom visits according to Article 14D.1 [typically one (1) visit by each Committee member].