Academic Bulletin January/February 2015 Classes started with a bang in both programs! As expected, January and February have both been great months in terms of numbers of students at all of our sites. Congratulations to the Site Coordinators and TS that work at all the sites for their hard work in ensuring good registration numbers. As teachers, you are a fundamental aspect in making sure those students stay with us and motivating them to register for subsequent courses, so let’s keep this in mind as the year goes along. Here are a few announcements related to the start of classes: 1. In the Adult Program, the number of classes per intensive and semi-intensive course used to fluctuate depending on the calendar for any specific year, but as of 2015 it has been standardized. This means that intensive morning courses will always have 18 classes, intensive afternoon courses will always have 15 classes and semi intensive morning or afternoon courses during the week will always have 15 classes. For the afternoon courses, this means that students will be receiving only 37.5 hours of the 38 hours which are promised. These additional 30 minutes will be made up by adding 10 minutes to the first three classes of each cycle. By adding these 10 minutes, class times will change in the following way: 1:55 p.m. classes will end at 3:55 p.m
4 p.m. classes will end at 6 p.m.
6:20 p.m. classes will end at 8:20 p.m.
2. After piloting the end of course evaluation at the end of last year and making the necessary adjustments, this is now ready to be fully implemented. Starting Cycle 1 in the Adult Program, and B1 or S1 in the Children and Youth Program, all students are going to be asked to complete the online evaluation near the end of the course. The TS should be going by your classes informing your students how they can complete the evaluation, and also taking the Course 1 students to the MLC or the Computer areas at the sites to complete their evaluations. It is paramount that you encourage students to complete the corresponding evaluation for each of your courses, as we are expecting to have at least 80% of the number of students registered in each course, evaluate it.