Conditions of Professional Service. The Committee and the Association have deliberately agreed not to include provisions in this Contract respecting some of the conditions affecting the performance by members of their professional duties. Such omitted matters include, by way of illustration and not of limitation, the teaching loads of individual members and the basis upon which parent-member conferences, professional workshops and curriculum planning sessions may be held in light of regulations promulgated by the State Board of Education regarding the length of the school day. Such matters are omitted not because the parties regard them as unimportant, but because the parties believe that they require further careful joint study since they are affected by the rapid pace of change in educational technology and theory, and in part, are subject to rules and regulations promulgated by agencies of the Commonwealth. In addition to such conditions, the Committee and the Association consider that there are a number of areas affecting the performance by members of their professional duties as to which practices not now in effect in the Quincy School System and practices not yet developed by any public school system may make great contributions toward improving not only the quality but also the efficiency of the educational process in the Quincy Public School System. Such areas include, by way of illustration and not of limitation, the use of non-professionally trained personnel to perform pupil supervision tasks outside the classroom clerical tasks, the reproduction of instructional materials, and the like. They also include the possibility of measuring the obligatory portion of a member's work day in terms of the time required to perform professional functions rather than a stated number of hours, the possibility of a separate contract year and separate compensation arrangements different from the academic year and compensation related thereto for volunteer professionals who might undertake special professional leadership and development assignments, the possibility of so reorganizing the classroom teaching functions so as to permit more effective use of superior classroom members and the possibility of identifying and describing characteristics of professional performance so as to permit more meaningful evaluation thereof. Accordingly, the parties agree that a Professional Conditions Committee (PCC) shall be established to consist of twelve (12) members of whom six (6) shall be designated by the As...
Conditions of Professional Service. A. Employment
Conditions of Professional Service. 12.1 No teacher shall be required to render service for more than 200 days in a school year, exclusive of designated and statutory holidays.
Conditions of Professional Service. Because of the crucial role played by the employees covered by this Agreement in the student - RSU relationship, the proper performance by all employees of their functions and the attitude with which they perform those functions are essential to provide the best possible education to the students of the RSU. Accordingly, all employees shall:
Conditions of Professional Service. 12. All educational diagnosticians employed by the Board shall be employed for the primary purpose of evaluating and placing children in District programs and/or rendering professional services for which they are licensed.
Conditions of Professional Service. 5. There shall be three (3) categories of employment: a. full-time teachers educator; b. part-time teachers educator; and
Conditions of Professional Service. 8.) A minimum of forty-five (45) minutes per week can be used for collaboration time provided the two hundred twenty (220) minutes for preparation time has been met. 9.) Elementary school itinerant art and music teachers shall be allowed sufficient time (10 to 15 minutes) to transition from one intraschool class teaching assignment to another. Such time shall not be considered preparation time. c. Middle School Block Schedule 1.) In schools where block schedules are followed, teachers shall have available to them a minimum of 450 minutes of preparation time in each consecutive two week period. 2.) In the event a two work week time period contains less than 10 work days, teachers shall not be required to attend PLC/collaboration meetings until and unless the 450 minute minimum is met. 3.) One entire class period per five day work week may be used for PLCs provided the 450 minute minimum is met and prep time is provided the other four days per week. 4.) Time spent in PLCs/collaboration time is not preparation time. Clean up with some reordering of already existing language. Now includes references to STEM ready and NM adopted standards. Embedded two already existing pieces of language that were previously MOUs. They are the provisions on elementary recess and Capstone projects. Article 5.
Conditions of Professional Service. 1. When absent ten (10) consecutive days or fewer, teachers shall provide lesson plans, instruction, and classroom management information for substitute teachers. a. Xxxxxx plans are required for all categories of extended leave and when leaving a position vacant due to transfers. b. Teachers shall provide plans for substitutes that include, if applicable: student medical needs, individual behavioral considerations, relevant modifications, a seating chart, small group configurations, pullout information, hall pass information, cell phone policy, and the school contact information as provided by the administration. c. Plans should be relevant to the current content objectives during the period of the teacher’s absence. d. Teachers’ assignments provided in the plans should be able to be implemented without the need to access personal passwords. e. Substitutes shall be responsible for carrying out the lesson plans and instruction provided by the absent teacher and shall exercise proper classroom management. Establishes teachers right to be provided access to a plagiarism checker and provides provisions for what that program must be able to perform. Article 5.
Conditions of Professional Service. E. Preparation Time REVISED
Conditions of Professional Service. Section C.1 (Professional Work Day and Year). Add new [fourth] sentence to read as follows: The professional work day for pre-school teachers shall begin no earlier than 8:00
