Planning and Preparation Time. 1. Planning and preparation time is time during the work day for instructional planning and preparation for the individual member's professional assignment. The member and the Department Director shall determine and schedule the amount of time necessary for prep time. NWRESD will annually review with all Administrators the contractual requirements associated with prep time. Labor-Management committee will include prep time as an agenda item at least two times per school- year for review of any concerns raised by members.
Planning and Preparation Time. 1. Pre-K through 5 Teachers. Insofar as practicable and provided there are enough special subject teachers employed by the Board, the Board will attempt to schedule one (1) planning period per day for full-time pre-K-5 teachers. Said pre- K-5 teachers shall use for their planning period the periods during which their classes receive instruction from music, art, foreign language, or physical education special subject teachers, unless from time to time they are asked by the special subject teachers to stay in the classroom to assist them. Such planning periods at the pre-K-5 level, including common planning time, shall be used for preparation time and other instructional responsibilities. It is understood that reasonable administrative requests/needs to meet will be honored. Regular classroom teachers at elementary grades 2-5 shall be released from two (2) periods of foreign language instruction each full week, thereby providing an additional fifty (50) minutes of planning time per week. First grade classroom teachers shall have an additional forty-five (45) minutes of planning time each full week, and during such additional planning time, instruction shall be provided by a certified teacher. Under normal circumstances, full-time special education teachers shall receive planning time of at least three hundred (300) minutes per week for preparation and other instructional responsibilities when it is feasible and appropriate. Full-time special subject teachers, Library Information Specialists, instructional resource teachers, resource room teachers, speech and language pathologists, psychologists and social workers covered by this Agreement at the elementary level shall, under normal circumstances, receive administratively scheduled planning time of no less than five (5) 30-minute uninterrupted blocks per week and reasonably equivalent to that provided to other elementary classroom teachers for preparation time and other instructional responsibilities.
Planning and Preparation Time. 10:6.1 Each employee shall receive a minimum of two hundred twenty-five (225) minutes per week of planning and preparation time within the student day. Such time should be in increments of 45 consecutive minutes. In the event of an abbreviated student day or emergencies (as defined in this agreement), every attempt will be made to equitably distribute planning time within that day.
Planning and Preparation Time. A. Each teacher shall receive a minimum of 200 minutes per week for a planning period.
Planning and Preparation Time. The remaining time will be preparation time. “An Employee’s preparation time” is Employee-directed planning time that may include preparing the classroom or the class lesson, collaborating with other Employees, and doing directly related follow-up activities, such as grading, corrections, classroom configuration, etc. At least forty (40) continuous minutes of preparation/planning time will be scheduled daily during the regular student day.
Planning and Preparation Time. No teacher shall be required to teach more than 180 minutes or four (4) consecutive periods without a relief period unless he/she has agreed to it. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to provide full-time teachers with a planning period in the morning and a planning period in the afternoon of each school day.
Planning and Preparation Time. A. Every teacher at the secondary schools shall be granted per day planning and preparation time equal to a class period.
Planning and Preparation Time. Each full-time Employee shall have four hundred (400) minutes of preparation and team planning time per five-day work week, as follows:
Planning and Preparation Time. Teachers shall have a minimum of three hundred (300) minutes per week, with a minimum of forty (40) consecutive minutes per day for planning and preparation, with the exception of during testing and semester exams, teachers shall have a minimum of 225 non- consecutive minutes per week for planning and preparation. Such time may be used for counseling individual students, conferences with parents, preparing for class or other school-related activities. School-related activities, which necessitate the leaving of the building, may be accomplished with the approval of the principal. An early release shall be provided at the end of each grading period (one per grading period for a total of 4 early releases). This time shall be used for grading, preparation of report cards, planning and working in the classrooms. In the event that one of these early release periods fall on a calamity day, the early release shall be re-scheduled on a date deemed most appropriate by the Superintendent.
Planning and Preparation Time. Each member of the bargaining unit with instructional responsibilities will be provided 160 minutes of planning and preparation time per four (4) day cycle at the elementary and high school levels and 240 minutes of planning and preparation time per six (6) day cycle at the middle school level. Planning and preparation time will be scheduled in blocks that are consistent with class periods. Planning and preparation time includes such items as time for writing lesson plans; making parent phone calls; post-observation conferences; grade level, subject matter and other common planning meetings; and teacher initiated parent meetings. IEP meetings, District initiative trainings, and/or principal initiated meetings may be scheduled during the employee’s planning and preparation time with the agreement of the affected employee. When a member of the bargaining unit is not afforded with planning and preparation time, the member of the bargaining unit will be compensated for all lost minutes within the cycle at the rate for extra work. On those days when the regular schedule is not followed and this causes the elimination of the planning and preparation time, then any scheduled planning time for that day will be lost.
