603.11 - Instructional Time Audit

The administration shall provide an audit of the availability of instructional time for students.  Considerations in the audit shall include, but need not be limited to, the patterns of employment and assignment of instructional professional staff; the relationship of the school organization and instructional methods to the availability of instructional time; identification of the responsibility for organizing and managing the instructional program, with specific attention to the effect of curriculum sequencing and integration on instructional time availability; and the effect of co-curricular and extracurricular activity programs on availability of instructional time. 

The audit shall be conducted at least once each year.  The administration shall provide an annual report to the board on the availability of instructional time for students.

 

 

Legal Reference:  Iowa Code §256.11 (1991).
                                       281 Iowa Admin. Code 12.3(5).

Cross Reference:  602     Curriculum Development
                                       603.1  Basic Instructional Program
                                       605        Instructional Materials
                                       606        Instructional Arrangements

Approved:  4-13-92              
Reviewed:  5-13-19              
Revised:  6-10-96