SBS Biology Guidelines
- Courses currently offered are BIOL 102/102L (Biology and Living/Biology and Living Laboratory) LS ANAT 118/118L (Human Anatomy/Human Anatomy Laboratory)
- SBS Courses may be offered for dual-credit only if the number of contact hours in the High School is sufficient to provide the depth and breadth of coverage appropriate for the number of credit hours.
- High School teachers will be approved to teach SBS courses using the following minimum criteria:
- M.S or M.A degree
- Graduate courses (minimum 18 credit hours) which relate directly to the course they wish to teach
- Post-baccalaureate courses relevant to the course he/she wishes to teach within the past 7-8 years or relevant recent experience in scientific research or other scientific activities
- Courses will use the ‘topic outline’/syllabus approved by the HSCP Coordinator, SBS
- Textbooks must be approved by SBS prior to purchase
- Labs may be offered only if SBS determines that appropriate facilities and resources are available
- Prior to the beginning of every School year/academic year, high school teachers will submit a course syllabus containing the following information:
- UMKC course name, course number, number of credit hours
- Instructor name
- The title and author of the text
- The relative components of the lecture-grade and the relative components of the lab-grade clearly and specifically stated
- A minimum of 75% of the lecture grade and a minimum of 75% of the lab grade must come from quizzes and exams
- The laboratory grade should be calculated separately from the lecture grade
- Policy for assigning grades
- Policy for attendance, missed exams, and late assignments
- SBS statement about appeal procedures
- Where applicable, SBS statement about laboratory safety
- Syllabi should be distributed to students at the beginning of the School year. The syllabus discloses to the student the course expectations and the parameters by which his/her achievement will be measured
- Students earning UMKC credit are required to participate in the full length of the course. This applies to those Schools where course-work begins in Aug/Sept and the student will not register for UMKC credit until the following January.
- Students may be required to take exams written by SBS Faculty to assess their level of achievement and for evaluating teacher performance.
- Evaluation of each instructor by students will be performed by the HSCP office using an UMKC faculty evaluation questionnaire during the last two
- weeks of the semester. The results have to be promptly mailed back to the HSCP office.
- Yearly evaluation of the instructor by the School of Biological Sciences will be based on course syllabus, high-school exams, and class-room observation.