Instructor & Assessor Standards¶

Status: Draft, pre-formation. Adopted on board approval of the certification program.

Scope¶

This document sets the standards for Guild faculty — anyone who teaches, scores, or reviews assessments inside the Guild's own programming. It applies to:

Instructors — authors and presenters of Guild courses (Moodle on learn.ganjierguild.com) and Guild-led webinars
Assessors — panelists who score capstones and oral interviews under exam-administration.md
Curriculum Reviewers — peer reviewers who sign off on new courses or substantive revisions before publish
Calibration Leads — senior faculty who run the annual calibration sessions

It does not apply to:

The Ganjier program's own instructors or assessors. The Guild has no authority over them. (See ADR-0008.)
Guest speakers at Guild events who do not author content or score assessments.

Eligibility baseline¶

To take any Guild faculty role, a person must:

Be a Guild member in good standing on the Full Membership tier (verified Certified Ganjier), or be a non-member subject-matter expert engaged under a written instructor agreement at the recommendation of the Education & Certification Committee
Hold no active Guild ethics complaint at the open or under-review stage
Have signed the current Guild Code of Ethics, Code of Conduct, and Conflict of Interest Disclosure
For sensory-track instruction: completed at least one Guild calibration session within the prior 12 months (or, for new faculty, scheduled their first calibration before their first cohort starts)

Students and GPS L1 milestone badge holders are not eligible to serve as Guild faculty unless they also hold a verified CG credential. The GPS L1 milestone alone is not sufficient.

Role-specific minimums¶

Role	Additional minimums
Instructor	Demonstrated subject-matter expertise (5+ years professional experience in the relevant domain, or peer-recognized teaching record). Sample teaching artifact reviewed by the Education & Certification Committee before first cohort.
Assessor (capstones / oral interviews)	At least one full year as an active Guild instructor or equivalent. Calibrated within the last 12 months. No COI with the candidate (see below).
Curriculum Reviewer	Two years of active Guild faculty service. Demonstrated breadth across multiple courses or content areas. Two reviewers required per new course.
Calibration Lead	Three years of active Guild faculty service. Recommended by the Education & Certification Committee and confirmed by the Board. Annual term, renewable.

Annual calibration¶

Every active Guild faculty member completes one calibration session per 12-month period. Lapse of calibration moves a faculty member to inactive until calibration is completed.

What calibration covers:

Rubric drift on the assessments the faculty member is responsible for
Score-banding agreement against a curated set of standardized artifacts
Review of the prior year's candidate-experience feedback
Updates to Guild policies (CE categories, accommodations, COI, ethics)

Format: A 90-minute facilitated session per cohort of 6-12 faculty, run by a Calibration Lead. Conducted on Zoom, recorded for absent members, transcript stored in the Guild's restricted storage for 3 years.

Outcome: Each faculty member receives a calibration certificate (mod_customcert PDF) with the date and the Lead's signature. The certificate is logged on their profile under faculty good-standing.

If a faculty member's score-banding diverges materially from cohort consensus on multiple standardized artifacts, the Lead schedules a one-on-one review and a re-calibration within 60 days. If divergence persists after re-calibration, the faculty member is moved to inactive for assessor work (course-authoring may continue) until the next annual calibration cycle.

Conflict-of-interest disclosure¶

Faculty disclose, in writing, before each engagement:

Any current or past employment with a candidate (last 24 months)
Any current or past coaching/mentoring of a candidate (last 24 months)
Any close personal relationship with a candidate
Any commercial relationship with a candidate's employer that might create financial influence
Any role on a board, committee, or working group where a candidate also serves and the relationship could influence judgment

A disclosed COI does not automatically disqualify the faculty member; it triggers a Lead Assessor review. Default response: reassign to a different cohort. If reassignment is impractical and the COI is non-financial and non-coaching, the Lead Assessor may proceed with documented justification and a second independent assessor on the same artifact.

Failure to disclose a COI that later comes to light is a Code-of-Ethics violation; routing follows appeals-and-revocation.md.

Peer review for new courses and substantive revisions¶

Before a new Guild course or a substantive revision goes live in Moodle:

Course Author submits the course (learning outcomes, syllabus, assessments, rubrics, sample artifacts) to the Education & Certification Committee
Committee assigns two Curriculum Reviewers with no COI to the course
Reviewers complete a structured review form within 21 days, covering: alignment with learning outcomes, rubric clarity, assessment validity, accommodations adequacy, accessibility of the materials, ethics framing where relevant
Reviewers may pass, pass-with-revision, or block. Block requires written rationale and is appealable to the full Committee.
Author addresses revisions; one re-review cycle is standard. If still blocked, the Committee mediates or returns the course to the author with a defined path to reactivate.
On pass, the course is published. The peer-review record is filed with the course archive for 7 years.

Substantive revision = changes to learning outcomes, assessment format, rubric thresholds, or sensory-kit composition. Minor edits (typos, link updates, slide refreshes) do not require peer review.

Compensation and recognition¶

Default compensation for Guild faculty work follows the Shared Services Agreement (SSA) Form V routing through the LLC and C6 entities. Specific rates are set per cohort by agreement between the faculty member and the LLC and are documented in their Form V Service Schedule.

Faculty who take on Curriculum Reviewer or Calibration Lead roles receive recognition via Guild-issued letters (mod_customcert) and are eligible for nomination to the annual Faculty Service award (recognition only, no monetary component).

The Guild does not pay faculty out of C6 dues for instructional work that is on the LLC's commercial program. The C6 may sponsor specific courses (e.g., free public-good ethics training) using member dues; in those cases compensation comes from the C6 program budget under board-approved scope.

Records and retention¶

Record	Retention
Faculty agreements (Form V Service Schedule)	Duration of service + 7 years
Calibration certificates	7 years
Calibration session recordings/transcripts	3 years
COI disclosures (per engagement)	7 years
Peer-review records (per course)	7 years
Inactive-status decisions and re-calibration outcomes	7 years

Removal from faculty roster¶

A faculty member is moved to inactive (course-authoring may continue at Committee discretion; no new assessor assignments) for any of:

Lapsed calibration
Persistent score-banding divergence after re-calibration
Open Guild ethics complaint at the under-review stage
Lapse of the underlying CG credential past grace (the GPS L1 milestone alone does not satisfy faculty eligibility)
Voluntary inactive status requested by the faculty member

A faculty member is removed entirely (not eligible for reinstatement without a Committee process) for any of:

Substantiated finding of academic dishonesty in their own assessment work
Substantiated finding of harassment, discrimination, or breach of safeguarding obligations during a Guild engagement
Material misrepresentation of their own credentials or experience to obtain a faculty role

Removal follows the due-process pathway in appeals-and-revocation.md. Removal is appealable.