TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS Sample Clauses
The "Teaching Hours and Assignments" clause defines the expectations and requirements regarding the number of teaching hours and the specific teaching duties assigned to an educator. It typically outlines the minimum and maximum teaching load per week or semester, and may specify the types of courses, classes, or other instructional responsibilities the teacher is expected to fulfill. By clearly delineating these obligations, the clause ensures both parties understand the scope of work, helps prevent disputes over workload, and supports effective workforce planning.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. A certified employee who is assigned to a class that requires the forfeiture of his/her preparation period shall be compensated using the hourly rate as defined in Appendix A. Dollar amounts shall be determined for the actual length of the elementary, middle school, and high school classes. When teachers of high- school seniors have no students (due to exams and early dismissal/graduation) and are asked or volunteer to cover the classes of colleagues, they will not be compensated. Each school shall maintain a certified employee substitute volunteer sign up list for internal substitutions that take place on their preparation period. This list will be used to determine each volunteer’s availability to fill an absence. A certified employee may not be assigned to a class during their preparation period, without exhausting the volunteer list first.
B. If a certified employee teaches an extra class on a regular basis, the certified employee shall receive 1/7 of the salary listed in cell M.S. - Step 5 of the salary schedule in effect the year in which the overload course is being taught for an overload at the middle school level and 1/7 of the salary listed in cell M.S. - Step 5 of the salary schedule in effect in the year in which the overload course is being taught at the senior high level.
C. The regular-classroom elementary-certified employee shall not be required to be responsible for playground supervision of students either before school, during morning and afternoon recess, during the lunch period recess, or any other supervisory duty except in emergency situations. An emergency situation shall be deemed to exist if a non-certified employee has been employed but is absent. In the event such an emergency situation arises, the district shall have the right to assign such duty to certified employees and shall make such assignment on a rotating basis, starting with the employee in the building with the least amount of district seniority. If a certified employee is assigned such emergency supervision duty pursuant to this section, the employee shall be paid at the rate in Appendix A for performing such a duty.
D. Certified employees will not be responsible, during the school code mandated duty free lunch period, for supervision in the cafeteria while the students are eating lunch. The elementary/middle school/high school- certified employee shall have the option of lunch supervision, with approval from their building administrator, and will be compensated w...
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The normal weekly teaching hours in the middle school and high school will include one normal class period daily for preparation.
B. Teachers who will be affected by a change in grade assignments in the elementary school grades and by changes in subject assignment in the secondary school grades will be notified and consulted by their principals as soon as the change becomes evident and necessary. Such changes will be voluntary to the extent possible. Every effort will be made to avoid reassigning probationary elementary school teachers to different grade levels.
C. The Board will notify the teacher, by the last day of school, of their tentative teaching assignments for the following year but the Board reserves the right to make changes following such notification. Should said change be made in the summer months, the teacher shall be notified by mail sent to their last known address.
D. The Elementary school schedule shall include two (2) fifteen (15) minute recess periods daily, which shall serve as a break for the students and duty free time for the teacher, weather permitting.
E. Teachers shall be required to attend staff meetings immediately before and after regular hours when requested to do so by a school administrator. These meetings are to be kept to a minimum.
F. Teachers will have a duty free lunch of not less than sixteen (16) minutes at the secondary level and twenty (20) minutes at the elementary level, provided that the district has the resources to employ noon hour aides without program cutbacks or layoff of other employees.
1. During inclement weather the teacher shall be responsible to supervise students in which case the twenty (20) minute duty free lunch shall not be guaranteed nor will extra pay be granted. The Board and the Association agree to meet and confer to work out a plan that will best solve the problem during inclement weather using existing staff.
G. The teaching hours for the 2006-2007 school year shall be as follows: Beginning Teachers Beginning Students Ending Ending Students Teachers Senior High 7:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m. Middle Schools 7:45 a.m. 8:00 a.m. 2:45 p.m. 2:55 p.m. Woodside Elem. 7:55 a.m. 8:10 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:05 p.m.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. Teachers will be at their assigned places of duty not later than 8:00 a.m. Teachers may leave the building at 3:20 p.m., except on Fridays and on the day before holidays, when the teacher workday will terminate at the conclusion of the instructional day.
B. Secondary teachers shall not be assigned more than six of the seven periods; the seventh period being an unassigned preparation period. A secondary teacher who teaches during their seventh period and this assignment has been mutually agreed upon by the teacher and Board of Education shall receive $1,000 per marking period (quarter). This will not include any extra duty assignment included in Appendix B-1 or B-2.
C. Teachers may mutually agree to substitute for each other. Substituting shall be voluntary and no teacher shall be required to substitute for another teacher. Teachers asked by the administration to substitute teach during a preparation period shall receive one (1) hour of compensatory time to be used at the teacher’s discretion, or a payment at the rate of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each hour of substitution. Teachers are required to provide the administration with a minimum of 48 hours notice when the personal leave is going to be used for sports or school improvement purposes. Earned compensation time must be used by the end of the current school year. Any unused compensation time will be converted to a payment at the rate of $20 for each hour of substitution.
D. On late start days teachers will be at their assigned place of duty 10 minutes before the start of the first class and the teachers work day shall terminate at the conclusion of the instructional day.
E. In the elementary school, when students are assigned to a class under the direction of another teacher (e.g. music and physical education), this will be a preparation period for the regular classroom teacher. Every effort will be made in scheduling to assure that all elementary teachers receive equal preparation time. On days when school is dismissed early because of inclement weather, teachers may leave 15 minutes after the students are dismissed. Employees who volunteer to do lunch time supervision will supervise for the last 15 minutes of each lunch period. Each four days of supervision will result in one class period of compensatory time. After seven periods of accumulated compensatory time (28 days of lunch supervision), the employee will earn one compensatory day. The day(s) earned in this way may be taken without restric...
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. The length of the teacher work day in the primary and intermediate buildings will be 6 hours 55 minutes, and the length of the teacher work day in the junior high building will be 7 hours 8 minutes. It is understood that 25 minutes of this time is teacher preparation time of which 15 minutes shall occur at the beginning of the student school day and 10 minutes shall occur at the end of the student school day. It is understood that the 5 minutes immediately preceding the student school day may be principal directed preparation time. In the primary and intermediate buildings, the student school day will be 6 hours 30 minutes, and in the junior high buildings the student school day will be 6 hours 43 minutes. There are certain exceptions to this, which are:
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The teachers normal workday shall be from 7:30 a.m. until 2:45 p.m. However, no more than two days each month, the teachers’ normal workday shall be from 7:15 a.m. until 2:45 p.m., in order to have staff meetings in each building and give the Association an opportunity to meet, if needed. The listed hours shall be inclusive of a thirty-five (35) minute duty-free lunch period. Except in cases of emergency or unusual circumstances, no teacher shall be required to supervise students more than ten (10) minutes before the start of the student school day nor work more than fifteen (15) minutes beyond the close of the student day. The foregoing, however, shall not apply to extracurricular duties or parent conferences. No teacher shall be required to serve on any committee which meets beyond the normal workday as described above.
B. During a full week of normal school days, each teacher shall be allocated no less than two hundred twenty-five (225) minutes of preparation time, exclusive of duty-free lunch periods, within regularly scheduled student attendance periods. Additionally, each teacher shall be allocated at least one hundred fifty (150) minutes of professional learning community collaboration time with colleagues each week. All other non-scheduled time as may exist during the prescribed teacher work day, within or outside the standard student attendance day, said amount of time to not be less than one hundred (100) minutes per week, shall be allocated to and utilized for planning and/or developmental activities, student individual or group tutorial sessions, and parent-teacher conferences.
C. Social workers, guidance counselors, psychologists, and school nurses shall work one hundred ninety (190) days during each school year, which normally shall include working the week prior to the first teacher workday of the school year and the week after the last teacher workday of the school year, or some variation thereof as determined by the administration in consultation with the staff. Additionally, social workers, guidance counselors, psychologists, and school nurses may be required to work evenings and weekends as needed in crisis situations.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. This provision shall only apply to instruction during the regular school day and after-school activities. This provision does not apply to parent academy or other community programs.
B. 1. A normal teaching load is five full period assignments, at least one uninterrupted, unassigned preparation period during periods one through six (or, if agreeable with the teacher, one equivalent preparation period), which shall be called “planning period”, and a remaining unassigned period during the teacher’s school day, which shall be called “remaining unassigned period.” All staff members will perform a supervisory duty only one-half (1/2) period per week during their planning period. Supervision assignments will reflect the traditional locations and duties currently in effect within each building, i.e. hallway, cafeteria, attendance office. Other supervision assignments will not be made without the prior mutual consent of the Faculty Association and Administration. The teacher's school day shall be seven (7) consecutive periods. The teacher day shall be seven (7) hours, thirty (30) minutes.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. It is the responsibility of each individual teacher, as well as the Board, to provide the highest quality educational program practicable for every boy and girl in the school district. To this end, the teacher should maintain practices inherent in his profession such as: (1) carefully written daily preparation; (2) attendance at staff meetings and (3) encouraged participation in activities of the school and community. R-18
B. The school year shall include one (1) pre-service, professional development, and one-half (½) post- service days as determined by the negotiated calendar and three (3) additional evening events to include (i.e, open houses, orientations, graduations, and student celebrations) outside the negotiated calendar as determined by the building principal. The three (3) additional evening events will be determined and shared on building calendars at the start of each school year. R-18
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The regularly scheduled arrival and dismissal times for teachers of the Trenton Public Schools shall be as follows: Teachers Instruction Students Teachers Elementary 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Middle School 7:55 a.m. 8:10 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. High School 7:15 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
B. The regular hours of work for audiologists, social workers, and psychologists shall begin at the teacher arrival time for the school to which they are assigned to start the day and shall end 8 hours after the arrival time (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch period), unless a deviation is approved by the employee’s supervisor.
C. All teachers shall be provided a duty-free uninterrupted lunch period in no event less than thirty (30) minutes.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The Board and the Association recognize and agree that the teachers’ responsibility to the students, community and profession generally entails the performance of duty and the expenditure of time and service beyond classroom duty hours. However, teachers may be required to attend no more than three (3) evening assignments or meetings each school year without additional compensation.
B. Teacher Day
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. 1. The teacher's school day shall include twenty-five ( 25) minutes before class starts and ten (10) minutes after class dismissal so they are available for consultation with students, parents, and administrat ion. On the last day of the school week or such days that precede a holiday, teachers may leave the building five (5) minutes after dismissal of their students.