THE PROFESSIONAL DAY Sample Clauses
THE PROFESSIONAL DAY. For purposes of fulfilling professional responsibilities associated with teaching, an eight (8) hour workday will be flexible, and will be guided by these principles:
a. Unit members recognize that their responsibility to students requires the performance of duties involving the expenditure of time beyond that of the student day, and shall be available for student and/or parent consultation, as well as other professional activities and responsibilities.
1. On those occasions when unit members will not be available immediately after the student day, they will notify the building office personnel.
2. It is not the intent of this article to require unit members to work beyond an eight (8) hour day.
b. Unit members will schedule regular times when they will be available, and will communicate these hours to their students and parents in a timely manner.
1. Unit members will make reasonable efforts to adjust their hours in order to be available to students and parents as necessary.
2. Bargaining unit members will provide written notification to the building principal of their established hours of availability.
THE PROFESSIONAL DAY. The professional day shall be seven hours and thirty minutes (7 ½ hours) in length when the 7- 12 class schedule is operated as a six (6) period day. Certificated classroom Employees teaching in grade levels K-6 shall be provided an average of sixty (60) duty free minutes of planning time per day for instructional planning in a regularly scheduled five-day week, in increments of no less than 20 minute, with no more than two planning blocks per day. The certificated classroom Employees teaching in grades 7-12 shall be provided a daily instructional planning period equal to the length of the District’s standard secondary class period. K-6 certificated classroom Employees will be provided the same planning period as described in the previous paragraph. Preparation time is intended to provide time for teachers for them to plan lessons, assess student work, and prepare instructional materials. Each certified classroom Employee shall determine the best use of their instructional planning period. The professional day shall be governed by the applicable state RCW’s and WAC’s. Employees may leave the school campus during their duty-free lunch period. Employees may leave the campus during their planning period with permission from their supervisor. When the school day starts late, Employees shall report thirty (30) minutes prior to the students scheduled arrival time without the loss of wages or benefits. Employees shall be allowed to leave their assigned duty site immediately after the students have cleared the building prior to the beginning of a scheduled holiday period, on the last student day of the school year, and on days that they have been requested to return to school or another site to attend a scheduled evening meeting event (e.g., PTO, holiday program, etc.).
THE PROFESSIONAL DAY. The professional day shall be seven hours and thirty minutes (7 ½ hours) in length when the 7- 12 class schedule is operated as a six (6) period day. Certificated classroom employees teaching in grade levels K-6 shall be provided an average of sixty (60) minutes of planning time per day for instructional planning. The certificated classroom employees teaching in grades 7-12 shall be provided a daily instructional planning period equal to the length of the district’s standard secondary class period. K-6 certificated classroom employees will be provided the same planning period as described in the previous paragraph. Each certified classroom employee shall determine the best use of their instructional planning period. The professional day shall be governed by the applicable state RCW’s and WAC’s. Employees may leave the school campus during their duty-free lunch period. Employees may leave the campus during their planning period with permission from their supervisor. When the school day starts late, employees shall report thirty (30) minutes prior to the students scheduled arrival time without the loss of wages or benefits.
THE PROFESSIONAL DAY. The professional day shall be seven hours and thirty minutes (7 ½ hours) in length when the 7- 12 class schedule is operated as a six (6) period day. Certificated classroom employees teaching in grade levels K-6 shall be provided an average of sixty (60) The certificated classroom employees teaching in grades 7-12 shall be provided a daily instructional planning period equal to the length of the district’s standard secondary class period. K-6 certificated classroom employees will be provided the same planning period as described in the previous paragraph. Each certified classroom employee shall determine the best use of their instructional planning period. The professional day shall be governed by the applicable state RCW’s and WAC’s. Employees may leave the school campus during their duty-free lunch period. Employees may leave the campus during their planning period with permission from their supervisor. When the school day starts late, employees shall report thirty (30) minutes prior to the students scheduled arrival time without the loss of wages or benefits. Employees shall be allowed to leave their assigned duty site immediately after the students have cleared the building prior to the beginning of a scheduled holiday period, on the last student day of the school year, and on days that they have been requested to return to school or another site to attend a scheduled evening meeting event (e.g. PTO, holiday program, etc.).