Re: Work loads

[cleveren@english.fsu.edu (Carrie Leverenz)]

Dear Susan:  At Florida State, the Reading/Writing Center is staffed with
graduate student TAs who are also teaching 1 composition class.  Here, a
course is considered a 10-hour a week responsibility, so tutors teach 9
hours a week, with an hour set aside for preparation or whatever.  Carrie
Leverenz

>Al Baldwin-Wallace College we are currently reexamining our work load and 
>are interested in knowing how others equate tutoring time with class 
>hours.  Our Lab has three Writing Specialists who also teach College 
>Compolition and Workshop in Exposition.  We also use student tutors 
>(English majors only at this moment).  When others calculate course 
>reductions for faculty who agree to tutor, how many hours of tutoring is 
>assumed to equal one semester or quarter course?  What's the logic behind 
>the formula?  Is this formula different for graduate assistants or 
>part-time faculty?  If so, how?
>Please respond soldriev@baldwinw.edu
>Thank you.
>Dr. Susan Oldrieve, Driector of the Writing Lab
>Baldwin-Wallace College
>Berea, Ohio
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