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Full-time faculty
Part-time faculty
Professional development is the general
process at any California community college or university for
development and continued improvement of certificated and classified
staff. AB1725 requires community college faculty to complete
forty (40) hours of professional development per academic year. Some
faculty complete many or all of their required hours attending
off-campus conferences and workshops during the semester. Most,
however, fulfill their forty hours at campus-sponsored events during
the Professional Development Week before the start of fall and
spring classes. Those two weeks comprise the major component of the
professional development program at Grossmont.
AB1725 allows community colleges to use 1-15
days of the state-mandated teaching year of 175 days for faculty
development. At Grossmont College, we have designated nine days of
the teaching year for this purpose, five in the fall semester and
four in the Spring.
Professional development hours may be completed
any time during the school year that is not in direct conflict with
an instructor’s teaching schedule or office hours. Most hours are
satisfied during Professional Development Week, the non-teaching
days in the week before the start of classes. That week allows
faculty the time to work individually or in groups to improve
expertise, teaching skills, and student success. However, as noted
above, professional development hours may be completed throughout
the school year. The college will offer some development activities
during the semester, such as technology training in
CATL. The use of
time/hours spent on an individual project or conference attendance
must be approved in advance by the Department Chair/Coordinator and
the Division Dean.
Professional Development Requirements for Full-time Faculty
Full-time classroom faculty are required to
complete forty (40) hours of professional development in an academic
year. If you teach overload, you must take
additional professional development, calculated the same way as
part-time. (Note that reassigned time is exempted for the number of hours from
which you have been released.) This is usually split into twenty
(20) hours per semester, however, a full-time faculty member may
complete the forty hours at any time during the academic year up
to the third week of May. Hours may not be banked or carried
over from one school year to the next.
If an extra-pay class is taught, then
additional hours are required equal to the numbers of hours that the
class meets in a week (e.g., an extra-pay three (3) unit class that
meets three hours weekly requires three additional activity hours).
A
Faculty Professional Development Contract
form must be
completed and submitted to the Department Chair by the end of the
first week of the semester. If a full-time faculty member wishes to
fulfill development hours later in the semester or school year,
he/she must (1) submit a Request for Attendance at Off-Campus
Activity form if attending a conference, (2) notify the Division
Dean when hours are completed in mid-semester on-campus activities,
or (3) submit a Project Proposal
form to the Department Chair and
Division Dean for approval before beginning that project.
Professional
Development Requirements for Part-time Faculty
Part-time faculty are responsible for completing
the same number of professional development hours that the class
they teach meets per week. A
Faculty Professional Development
Contract form must be completed and submitted to the
Department Chair by the end of Professional Development Week. When a
part-time
faculty member wishes to fulfill hours with other activities,
arrangements (in writing) must be made in advance with the
Department Chair and Division Dean.
Any part-time faculty planning to finish
professional development hours after Professional Development
Week must turn in an “Activity Plan” (detailed memo) to his/her
Chair/Coordinator for approval by the end of Professional
Development Week. The plan should detail how the hours will be
completed. Without an approved plan submitted by the end of
Professional Development Week, no hours may be completed
thereafter and pay will be adjusted accordingly. The time window
to complete professional development hours in an approved plan is
the first five weeks of the semester. That is,
the
activities must be completed by the last Friday in September for the
Fall semester and the last Friday in February for the Spring
semester.
For part-time faculty who are (1) teaching a
class within the first eight weeks of the semester, but are (2)
hired after the beginning of Professional Development Week, please
turn in your “Activity Plan” to your Chair/Coordinator for approval
by the end of the first week of your class. You then have until the
end of the fifth week to complete development hours. See your
Chair/Coordinator for suggestions/recommendations regarding activity
plans.
For part-time faculty hired to teach a class with
a start date in the second eight weeks of the semester or later, you
must turn in an “Activity Plan” to your Chair/Coordinator for
approval by the end of the first week of your class.
You then
have until the end of the fourteenth week to finish any development
activities, that is, by the last Friday of November for the Fall
Semester and the last Friday in April for the Spring semester. See your Chair/Coordinator for
suggestions/recommendations regarding activity plans.
NOTE:
There are no exceptions to the above Flex Week
guidelines. For additional information please see the hire letter
and/or contact your manager.
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