Prep Period Clause Samples
Prep Period. Each full-time teacher shall have one period each day to be used self-directed professional activities (for example: classroom preparations, parent conferences, and peer consultation.) Core and departmentalized classroom teachers shall have one of the regularly scheduled instructional periods for this purpose. Teachers with a prep period scheduled on a block day will receive their prep period every other day. Teachers with their prep period scheduled on a daily scheduled period will receive their prep period every day. The site administrator and lead teachers will make their best effort to accommodate the teacher's desire to have their prep period on a block period or a daily meeting period. Self-contained classroom teachers shall be provided with equivalent time before and/or after the school day for this purpose. A period for purposes of this article is defined as not less than forty-five (45) minutes.
Prep Period. Elementary teachers shall normally have their preparation/conference period to be not less than forty (40) minutes in duration during their workday. Middle and high school unit members shall have one preparation period for every five (5) periods taught.
Prep Period. Each secondary teacher shall have a minimum of five
Prep Period. The District will provide preparation periods to personnel to enable goal setting, lesson and evaluation planning, and preparation of materials. A teacher is not required to supervise students during his or her preparation period. A preparation period shall be included within the framework of the student day, as state law allows. The time before and after the student day, and the duty-free lunch period do not count as provided prep time (except for prep time following seventy-five (75) minutes of Monday professional development time, prior to student arrival). A preparation period for 1.0 FTE secondary personnel (which, for the purpose of this agreement means faculty working at the middle school and high school level, grades 5-12, except grade 5 at Yale School, shall be equivalent in time to one instructional period per day. For secondary staff with a less than 1.0 FTE schedule, the prep shall be prorated to the employee’s FTE. Elementary staff (which for the purpose of this agreement means faculty working at the primary and intermediate level, grades K-4, K-5 at Yale School) will have preparation time equal to the daily time their students spend in classes with general education instructional specialists, (225 minutes in a normal 5 day week with full instructional days of equal length). If a teacher agrees to teach a scheduled class for a semester or for a year in place of his or her regularly scheduled planning period for a semester or for a year, that teacher’s compensation will be .167 times the teacher’s annual salary for the year (.083 per semester). This compensation is for additional planning time outside the contract day. To meet the Washington State Auditor’s requirements, teachers receiving this compensation must certify, on a District-provided form at the end of the semester, that this additional planning time has been completed. A8. TA 6/30/16: 5.3 Temporary Replacement Pay Should any teacher upon the request of the principal or designee, forfeit his/her preparation period to teach a class, or watch students he/she shall receive an additional .167 of the employee’s per diem base salary for high school and middle school or .10 of the employee’s per diem base salary for an elementary period. The minimum time which will be reimbursed will be no less than the amount of employee preparation time. Class size is of continuing concern to the Board and the teaching staff. In order to achieve the goal of reasonable and equitable class enrollments for em...