High School Planning Time Sample Clauses
The High School Planning Time clause establishes designated periods during which high school teachers are allocated time within their workday specifically for planning lessons, grading, and preparing instructional materials. Typically, this clause outlines the minimum amount of planning time per day or week, and may specify whether this time is free from supervisory or non-instructional duties. Its core function is to ensure that teachers have adequate, uninterrupted time to effectively prepare for classes, thereby supporting instructional quality and reducing teacher workload stress.
High School Planning Time. High School Teachers will have a minimum of one (1) class period of duty free, self‐directed planning time daily.
High School Planning Time. Secondary school teachers shall be assigned no more than five (5) teaching periods per day. However, under specific conditions, a sixth (6th) teaching period may be assigned to classroom teachers. Up to twelve (12) additional teaching periods per year may be offered at the High School with no more than two (2) in any department. No teacher shall teach a sixth teaching period for two consecutive school years unless no other eligible teacher (see numbers d & e below) agrees to teach a sixth teaching period and the teacher mutually agrees to teach a sixth teaching period for a second consecutive year. In order for a sixth (6th) teaching period to be assigned to a classroom teacher, all of the following conditions must be met:
a. There must be mutual consent between the teacher and the principal;
b. The teacher is informed that they will continue to have an assigned duty as specified in Article III of this Agreement;
c. The teacher is informed that they will no longer have a preparation period, as defined in Article III of this Agreement, for as long as s/he is teaching a sixth (6th) teaching period;
d. The teacher must have three (3) years teaching experience and completed one (1) full school year in Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District;
e. The teacher must be licensed to teach the class period and have taught that subject area in the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District. Teachers who teach a sixth (6th) teaching period will receive an additional twenty percent (20%) of their salary as compensation for the additional class period. Every teacher at the secondary level shall have five (5) preparation periods each week, during which they shall not be assigned to any other duties. Except where not feasible due to scheduling difficulties, such preparation periods shall be on a daily basis provided, however, the above shall not apply where adequate substitutes cannot be obtained to replace absent teachers. Teachers of Advanced Placement will be free from supervisory responsibilities unless adequate coverage for such duties does not exist, in an effort to provide additional preparation time.