New Teacher Training. Teachers new to the District will participate in a 15-hour orientation program. Current staff, selected by principals to be coaches, will provide in-service on numerous topics including KSD policies and procedures, curriculum and building specific information. Both new teachers and their coaches will be paid a maximum of 15 hours for this work which will be completed outside their regular day.
New Teacher Training. All first and second year teachers are required to participate in the following training: ● First year teachers shall be required to participate in three days of additional training to be completed prior to the first day of student attendance. Furthermore, first year teachers will be required to participate in eight (8) two-hour sessions of additional training to be completed outside of the contractual day. ● Second year teachers will be required to participate in four (4) two hours sessions of additional training to be completed outside of the contractual day. The dates of the trainings will be provided to all first and second year teachers within the first two weeks of the school year. All attendance conflicts must be communicated in advance, in writing, to the Superintendent or designee for approval.
New Teacher Training. The Board shall have the right to require all new faculty members to successfully complete five (5) days, no day to exceed six (6) hours, of professional in-service training prior to the opening of school, plus a maximum of ten (10) additional in-service training sessions during each of the teacher’s first three school years, no session to exceed ninety (90) minutes in duration. Compensation shall be in-service credits, plus hour for hour credit for ‘professional development hours’ towards the ‘100 hours’ requirements of the State of New Jersey, where available. All training referred to in this paragraph shall be completed by a new faculty member before the first day of the faculty member’s fourth year of employment. At the discretion and option of the Board, in lieu of the foregoing annual training requirements, second and third year teachers may be required to five monthly sessions of 180 minutes or less, wherever possible to be scheduled on Mondays only, where for each such session the teachers required to attend shall be provided with a choice of at least two alternate dates on which to attend, and, unless mutually agreed upon, at least one of which will begin not later than 45 minutes after the end of the instructional day for the affected teachers. (For example, if a second year high school teacher is to be required to remain for a 3 hour meeting, and the high school instructional day ends at 2:25, at least one of the three meeting dates must begin by 3:10.) Alternate dates are not required to be Mondays. Teachers who (a) have a minimum of five year’s teaching experience prior to being employed in West Orange, and (b) successfully complete the first year requirements of this section shall, at the discretion of the Superintendent or his designee , be excused from the requirement to attend some or all of the training meetings in the second and third years of employment in West Orange. It is expressly agreed that any and all mandatory assignments for the new teacher training program will be completed within the class time allotted for the training. No in class assignments designed to encourage reflective and self-critical practices will be required to be submitted to any instructor or supervisor. No optional assignments, including journal writing, to be performed outside of the training classes, will be required of any teacher. No assignment, mandatory or optional, designed to encourage reflective and self-critical practices, shall be required to be sub...
New Teacher Training. New staff members may receive up to two (2) days of training prior to the regular start date of the new school year. The days will be compensated for at a prorated rate of their regular salary.
New Teacher Training. (New language based on MOA found at the end of this document) All first and second year teachers hired as of the 2015-2016 school year will be required to participate in the following training: ● First year teachers shall be required to participate in three days of additional training to be completed prior to the first day of student attendance. Furthermore, first year teachers will be required to participate in eight (8) two hour sessions of additional training to be completed outside of the contractual day. ● Second year teachers will be required to participate in four (4) two hours sessions of additional training to be completed outside of the contractual day. This program is district level based and building and/or district level implemented. Employees that only participated in year one of the mentoring program with Xxxxxxx County Special Education Cooperative will participate in the second year teacher training. All other transferring employees will participate in up to three hours of required training prior to the start of the 2016-17 school year. Also, the topic(s) of additional training for first and second year teachers will be provided in advance, and teachers will be given the choice of which topic(s) to attend.
New Teacher Training. All first and second year teachers hired as of the 2015-2016 school year will be required to participate in the following training: ● First year teachers shall be required to participate in three days of additional training to be completed prior to the first day of student attendance. Furthermore, first year teachers will be required to participate in eight (8) two hour sessions of additional training to be completed outside of the contractual day. ● Second year teachers will be required to participate in four (4) two hours sessions of additional training to be completed outside of the contractual day. This program is district level based and building and/or district level implemented. Employees that only participated in year one of the mentoring program with Xxxxxxx County Special Education Cooperative will participate in the second year teacher training. All other transferring employees will participate in up to three hours of required training prior to the start of the 2016-17 school year. Also, the topic(s) of additional training for first and second year teachers will be provided in advance, and teachers will be given the choice of which topic(s) to attend.
