The goal of these guidelines is to promote team teaching by describing conditions in which team teaching should typically be allowed to count the same as teaching a class alone. The authority to make the decision about how team teaching should count in any individual case still rests with the dean and/or department chair. These guidelines are not intended to be a policy that establishes a right to have team teaching count as a solo teaching assignment nor are they intended to restrict the ability of the dean to decide that team teaching counts the same as solo teaching in any individual case. 

If a course with an enrollment of >40 is team taught by two faculty members, then typically both faculty members can consider this to be a full course in terms of their annual expectations for teaching provided:

  1. The faculty describe a rationale for why having both of them teach the class provides a substantially improved educational opportunity for students. The rationale may focus on the ability of the faculty pair to bring different disciplinary perspectives to the course or other factors that strongly connect to quality of the education being provided.
  2. Each faculty member commits to attending at least 90% of all class meetings 
  3. Team teaching does not place an undue burden on other faculty in one of the affected departments. Team teaching is not a reason to request additional tenure track, teaching track or adjunct faculty. 
  4. If the faculty have taught together before:
    1. There must be evidence that the prior team teaching effort was successful in terms of student learning. Faculty engaged in team teaching should articulate learning objectives before the semester and rigorously evaluate whether these objectives were met. 
    2. Student course evaluations were not below the standards for the colleges involved.