T EACHING CONDITIONS Sample Clauses

T EACHING CONDITIONS. A. The parties recognize that optimum school facilities for both student and teacher are desirable to ensure the high quality of education that is the goal of both the Association and the Board. It is also acknowledged that the primary duty and responsibility of the teacher is to teach, and that the organization of the school and the school day should be directed toward ensuring that the energy of the teacher is primarily utilized to this end. (1) Because the pupil-teacher ratio is an important aspect of an effective educational program, the parties agree that class size shall be lowered whenever possible to meet the optimum standards as set forth in Schedule C, attached to and incorporated into this Agreement. The date for determining class size and class load shall be the official State Pupil Count day. (2) Every effort will be made to equitably distribute students who are included in a regular education classroom for all or part of a day as part of an IEP inclusive education plan, or 504 Plan, among classrooms at that grade level or subject area unless a teacher, or teachers, voluntarily agree to a different arrangement. Upon a teacher’s request in the event of an inequitable distribution the administration will work to redistribute students. (3) No class shall exceed the number of students that can be accommodated by the facility. a. If the number of students exceeds thirty-one (31) in any class, the affected teacher will be paid an additional stipend for each student in excess of thirty- one (31) of $7.50 per day. b. The above stipend shall be prorated on the basis of an instructional hour as set forth in Article IV (B). In a teaming situation, any team teacher with an overload (more than the maximum number of students listed below) on that teacher’s class list will be paid overage pay as outlined below. The teamed teachers will equally share (split) the overage pay for any assigned student(s) that exceed the joint teaming classroom maximum set below. (i) Teaming teaching is defined as two or more certified teachers assigned to and actively sharing teaching duties for the same class for instructional purposes. For purposes here a parapro and teacher assigned to the same classroom is not considered a team teaching assignment (ii) In the elementary - voluntary teaming does not apply. Only assigned non-voluntary team teaching situations qualify for overages. Elementary teaming assignments shall operate under the same rules for overage as Junior High/High...