Elementary Planning Time Sample Clauses

Elementary Planning Time. [a] All elementary schools will allow for teacher planning and collaboration time one (1) day each week, as approved by the Board, by shortening that day and proportionately lengthening the remaining days in the week. In the event that the early-out day falls on a holiday, no early-out planning time will be provided for that week. [b] The planning time is to be used for individual or group planning activities. Exceptions such as faculty meetings, training or other routine school activities shall be agreed upon by the JSSC. [c] The total time for students to be in the class shall meet the state requirements and the total teacher time shall meet contract obligations.
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Elementary Planning Time. The District will provide planning time to every elementary employee. Such time will be scheduled during the art, music, physical education, library skills, computer skills, and/or foreign language classes. These special classes will be a minimum of five (5) sections per week, of at least thirty (30) consecutive minutes in length. Full-time special area employees will also have equivalent planning periods. Such time is to be in addition to any time prior to the beginning of instructional day or after the end of the instructional day. It is recognized, however, that the constraints of financial resources and/or extenuating circumstances, may prevent implementation of this planning time every day for every teacher. In any event, however, every full-time elementary teacher shall have a minimum of 170 minutes planning time each week, averaged over a two (2) week period. Part-time teachers in the elementary school will receive a pro-rata amount of planning time. To ensure the most effective implementation of this article, the Contract Review Committee will review and monitor each building’s teaching schedule for the purpose of working toward the goal of providing thirty
Elementary Planning Time. The District will provide preparation/planning time for licensed teachers on the basis of (50) minutes per school day, or the equivalent. Preparation periods shall be provided, as a norm, on each day, and shall be not less than 25 minutes or more than 60 minutes in length. Thirty (30) minutes of preparation/planning time for kindergarten teachers is normally provided between morning and afternoon sessions with students, and does not involve time away from students during the students’ day. The additional 20 minutes per day (equivalent) will be provided as scheduled by the District.
Elementary Planning Time. Elementary teachers will have a minimum of sixty (60) duty‐free minutes of self‐directed planning time four (4) times per week prior to and following the instructional day. Sixty (60) minutes per five-day instructional week will be provided during the instructional day. Additional time will be provided as the school schedule allows. There is an acknowledgement that during some weeks, more than sixty (60) minutes will be provided, and other weeks, situations may arise when less than sixty (60) minutes can be provided.
Elementary Planning Time. The School Improvement Council in elementary schools may develop and submit to the superintendent for approval a schedule to provide each teacher with on campus planning time. Those elementary schools choosing the half-day weekly planning time may submit a plan for use of accumulated planning time in weeks shortened by holiday schedules.
Elementary Planning Time. The Association recognizes management prerogative to assign teacher workloads. The District will work to equalize elementary planning time across all buildings.
Elementary Planning Time. The elementary classes will be scheduled so as to provide each elementary teacher with at least one (1) period each day when students are attending either library, physical education, music or art classes and such periods for each teacher shall total at least two hundred twenty (220) minutes per week. (Negotiated and agreed to in 1995)
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Elementary Planning Time. The district will use its reasonable best efforts to schedule a daily planning period for each elementary classroom teacher (excluding counselors, psychologists and nurses) to take place within the pupil day. The planning period will be equivalent to a related arts class period in the building. In place of daily planning time, pre-school teachers are provided with a half-day planning to be used at their discretion each week on the non-instructional day (Monday or Friday) that is scheduled into the preschool program. The remaining half-day of planning is provided to preschool teachers to allow them additional time to meet the unique requirements of the preschool program, including home visits, parent conferences, preschool site visits, IEP responsibilities as related to the needs of parents and families. The Association and administration will continue to investigate alternative ways of providing daily planning time to preschool teachers. Until a new, mutually acceptable schedule is developed, the half-day of teacher-directed planning time each week will continue to be provided to all preschool teachers.
Elementary Planning Time. The Board and the Association agree that efficient planning of instructional time is important to the success of the school district. To this end the Board and Association agree to encourage, support and assist efforts on the part of teachers, (buildings, teams, etc.), to maximize the effectiveness of their planning time provided, however, that such plans do not reduce instructional time. Plans that call for a modification of contract language must be approved by the Association and Board prior to implementation of pilot or regular efforts.
Elementary Planning Time. All elementary Teachers shall have a minimum of 150 minutes of planning time per week. All secondary Teachers shall have a minimum of one (1) planning period daily. Administrators shall make every effort not to assign other duties to Teachers during this period. Planning time means individual Teacher-directed time to be used to fulfill instructional responsibilities and other needs as identified by the Teacher.
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