Common use of Workload and Hours of Work Clause in Contracts

Workload and Hours of Work. A guide will be provided to the schools on the development of the Teacher Workload Agreement. Workload matters not specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Agreement are to be negotiated by the Consultative Committee at each School and shall be recorded in the 'Teacher Workload Agreement' for that school. The matters that may be included in the Teacher Workload Agreement at the school are Student contact time as per Clause 49.22 Co Curricular activities as per Clause 49.16 Extra Curricular Activities as per Clauses 49.16, 49.17 and 49.18 Class sizes as per Clause 49.23 Measures to accommodate for workload allocations for some teachers at various times of the year that are either under or over the normal allocations at the School. The Teacher Workload Agreement may not contain conditions that are less favourable than the benchmarks in this Clause. Once the matters to be included in the Teacher Workload Agreement have been agreed by the Consultative Committee the following process will be followed: Teaching staff shall have a minimum of seven (7) clear working days to review the proposed Teacher Workload Agreement before a ballot is taken to approve the agreement. The vote will be by secret ballot of the teachers and decided by a simple majority of votes cast. The documented agreement is to be signed by the Principal and an elected staff representative. If agreement about changes to the workload under this Clause cannot be reached, the status quo prior to commencement of negotiations will remain. Any concerns about the implementation of the Teacher Workload Agreement shall be addressed by the Consultative Committee. The Teacher Workload Agreement will be reviewed annually. The timing of the review will be determined by the Principal or members of the Consultative Committee. This should occur no later than the beginning of term 4 in any year to ensure schedules and timetables can be ready for the beginning of the following year. A copy of the reviewed and endorsed Teacher Workload Agreement for each school will be lodged with the LSA each year. If teachers are of the opinion that appropriate joint decision making on the matter of workload has not taken place, then the dispute resolution process will be used. The following Clauses 49.5 to 49.22 supplement the NES in respect of maximum weekly hours. Due to the operational requirements of a School, the ordinary hours of work for a teacher may be averaged over a 12 month period provided that the hours in excess of 38 hours (for a full time teacher) in a particular week are reasonable and the teacher may refuse to work additional hours if they are unreasonable. In determining whether additional hours are reasonable the following must be taken into account: Any risk to the teacher’s health and safety from working the additional hours; The teacher’s personal circumstances, including family responsibilities; The needs of the workplace or enterprise in which the teacher is employed; Whether the teacher is entitled to receive overtime payments, penalty rates or other compensation for, or a level of remuneration that reflects an expectation of, working additional hours; Any notice given by the School of any request or requirement to work the additional hours; Any notice given by the teacher of the teacher’s intention to refuse to work the additional hours; The usual patterns of work in the industry, or the part of an industry, in which the teacher works; The nature of the teacher’s role, and level of responsibility; Whether the additional hours are in accordance with averaging terms included in this Agreement, or with an averaging arrangement agreed to by the School and teacher under section 64 of the NES; Any other relevant matter. The ordinary hours of work for a teacher during term weeks are variable. A teacher is not normally required to attend for periods of time when the students are not present, subject to the needs of the School with regard to professional development, student free days and other activities requiring the teacher's attendance. The maximum number of school days that a teacher will be required to attend during term weeks and non-term weeks will be 203 including gazetted public holidays during the scheduled term weeks in each school year. The following circumstances are not included when calculating the 203 teacher attendance days: co-curricular activities that are conducted on a weekend; extra-curricular activities; school-related overseas and interstate trips, conferences and similar activities undertaken by mutual consent during non-term weeks; when the teacher appointed to a leadership position is performing duties in non-term weeks that are directly associated with the leadership position; when the teacher has boarding house responsibilities and the teacher is performing those duties during term weeks and non-term weeks; and exceptional circumstances, such as the requirement to provide pastoral care to students in the event of a tragedy in a School community, in which a teacher may be recalled to perform duties relating to their position. Each School will provide written notice of the term weeks and days in non-term times on which its teachers are required to attend, six months in advance of the requirement to attend. There shall be no School required professional development in non-term weeks other than The 3 days prior to students commencing school at the beginning of Term 1 for professional development and planning activities. That time when a School decides to reduce the days of attendance of students in order to provide professional development to teachers, continuous to non-term weeks. The annual salary and any applicable allowances payable under this Agreement are paid in full satisfaction of a teacher's entitlements for the School year or a proportion of the School year. A teacher's absence from a School during the non-term weeks at the end of the year is deemed for the purposes of the NES only, to include their entitlement to annual leave. The Schools and teachers recognise that teacher workload is a matter that needs to continue to be addressed at the individual School to meet its educational, institutional and community needs. The composition of classes will be determined by consultation to enable teachers to best meet the needs of students. Factors to be taken into account will be the educational, social and emotional needs of the students and the level of additional support that will be made available to teachers. Consultation with the relevant teachers and the development of a management plan will form part of the process to cater for students with special needs. The School will consider carefully the requirements for resources to meet students’ needs. The Schools and teachers recognise the following components of a teacher’s work: Core Activity refers to those activities that have formed and will continue to form an essential part of each teacher’s responsibility and workload and consists of two parts: Curricular Activity, which means time-tabled, student contact time with students for the purposes of pastoral care, instruction in academic disciplines or organisational matters, usually in a classroom but elsewhere on occasions; Co-curricular Activity, which means professional activity undertaken by a teacher as an essential adjunct to “curricular activity” and includes such activities as: • Staff meetings • Faculty meetings • Co-ordination, subject level meetings, committees • Parent-Teacher Interviews • Yard and Bus Duties • Sports Day (out of timetabled time) • Open Day • Religious Observances eg Staff Bible Study, Staff Morning Devotions, Sunday Services • School Fair • Annual Valedictory Services • Committee meeting and preparation (out of timetabled time) • Twilight tea • Camps (where not considered extra-curricular activities) • Staff Retreat • Sports Coaching if curriculum related (otherwise extracurricular) • School required professional development (after school hours) The Consultative Committee in each workplace has the ability to vary or add to this list of activities that are specific to that workplace. There shall be a co-curricular cap of 200 hours per annum, subject to the Teacher Workload Agreement and subject to a maximum of 130 hours per semester. Consideration shall be given to spreading the hours on co-curricular activities evenly over the semester. Contribution to the co-curricular cap while on camps will be deemed to be 17.5 hours for every 24 hours. Extra-Curricular Activity means the organisation, management or supervision of cultural, social and sporting activities which the School deems to be a desirable component of the educational program of the School. Since extra-curricular activities are fundamental to the educational and cultural character of a School, teachers are expected to share in these activities to the extent of any balance left in the co-curricular workload cap. If a School wishes to offer extra-curricular activities in addition to the Teacher Workload Agreement; staffing of such activities will occur with the agreement of interested staff. The workload of a teacher who does not volunteer to participate in such additional extra-curricular activities will not be increased above the co-curricular cap. A school will negotiate with teachers who volunteer to engage in extra-curricular activities which are above the co-curricular cap, to ascertain if it is necessary, to compensate for the extracurricular involvement and where compensation is necessary the School will negotiate a schedule of compensation. In Schools where extracurricular programs are established, a schedule of compensation for participating teachers will be developed and reviewed annually. A part-time teacher's participation in co-curricular and extracurricular activities is on a pro-rata basis consistent with the proportion of engagement in relation to a full time teacher. Part-time teachers are required to attend parent-teacher interviews. Student Contact Time and Non-Contact Time for Full Time Teachers Primary Teachers The maximum Student Contact for full time teachers per week shall be as shown in the table below. Teacher Workplace Agreements can vary this benchmark by up to ½ hour if there is a need (for example to connect with bus schedules) The minimum Non-Contact Time in hours per week also known as Non-Instruction Time (NIT), shall be a minimum as shown in the table below: Maximum Student Contact Time (hours per week) Minimum Non-Contact Time (hours per week) Maximum Total Timetable Time (hours per week) Non-contact time for part time teachers shall be in proportion of hours worked to the full time equivalent.

Workload and Hours of Work. A guide will be provided to the schools on the development of the Teacher Workload Agreement. Workload matters not specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Agreement are to be negotiated by the Consultative Committee at each School and shall be recorded in the 'Teacher Workload Agreement' for that school. If a Consultative Committee is not in place in the School, alternative consultative arrangements established in accordance with Clause 8 will be utilised. The matters that may be included in the Teacher Workload Agreement at the school are Student contact time as per Clause 49.22 Co Co-Curricular activities as per Clause 49.16 Extra Extra-Curricular Activities as per Clauses 49.16, 49.17 and 49.18 Class sizes as per Clause 49.23 Measures to accommodate for workload allocations for some teachers at various times of the year that are either under or over the normal allocations at the School. The Teacher Workload Agreement may not contain conditions that are less favourable than the benchmarks in this Clause. Once the matters to be included in the Teacher Workload Agreement or amendments to the Teacher Workload Agreement have been agreed by the Consultative Committee the following process will be followed: Teaching staff shall have a minimum of seven (7) clear working days to review the proposed Teacher Workload Agreement or proposed amendments to the Teacher Workload Agreement before a ballot is taken to approve the agreementagreement or amendments. The vote will be by secret ballot of the teachers and decided by a simple majority of votes cast. The documented agreement is or amendments are to be signed by the Principal and an elected staff representative. If agreement about changes to the workload under this Clause cannot be reached, the status quo prior to commencement of negotiations will remain. Any concerns about the implementation of the Teacher Workload Agreement shall be addressed by the Consultative Committee. The Teacher Workload Agreement will be reviewed annuallyat least every three years to determine what, if any, changes should be made. The timing of the review will be determined by the Principal or members of the Consultative Committee. This should occur no later than does not limit the beginning of term 4 in any year to ensure schedules and timetables can be ready for the beginning capacity of the Principal or members of the Consultative Committee to seek changes between reviews. For clarity, if following yearthe review or consideration of changes between reviews, no changes are proposed to be made to the Teacher Workload Agreement, no ballot needs to occur. However, a ballot on the Teacher Workload Agreement is to occur at least every three years. A copy of the reviewed and endorsed Teacher Workload Agreement for each school will be lodged with the LSA each yearLESNW. If teachers are of the opinion that appropriate joint decision making on the matter of workload has not taken place, then the dispute resolution process will be used. The following Clauses 49.5 to 49.22 supplement the NES in respect of maximum weekly hours. Due to the operational requirements of a School, the 38 ordinary hours of work per week for a teacher may be averaged over a 12 month period provided that the hours in excess of 38 hours (for a full time teacher) in a particular week are reasonable and the teacher may refuse to work additional hours if they are unreasonable. In determining whether additional hours are reasonable the following must be taken into account: Any risk to the teacher’s health and safety from working the additional hours; The teacher’s personal circumstances, including family responsibilities; The needs of the workplace or enterprise in which the teacher is employed; Whether the teacher is entitled to receive overtime payments, penalty rates or other compensation for, or a level of remuneration that reflects an expectation of, working additional hours; Any notice given by the School of any request or requirement to work the additional hours; Any notice given by the teacher of the teacher’s intention to refuse to work the additional hours; The usual patterns of work in the industry, or the part of an industry, in which the teacher works; The nature of the teacher’s role, and level of responsibility; Whether the additional hours are in accordance with averaging terms included in this Agreement, or with an averaging arrangement agreed to by the School and teacher under section 64 of the NES; Any other relevant matter. The ordinary hours of work for a teacher during term weeks are variable. A teacher is not normally required to attend for periods of time when the students are not present, subject to the needs of the School with regard to professional development, student free days and other activities requiring the teacher's attendance. The maximum number of school days that a teacher will be required to attend during term weeks and non-term weeks will be 203 including gazetted public holidays during the scheduled term weeks in each school year. The following circumstances are not included when calculating the 203 teacher attendance days: co-curricular activities that are conducted on a weekend; extra-curricular activities; school-related overseas and interstate trips, conferences and similar activities undertaken by mutual consent during non-term weeks; when the teacher appointed to a leadership position is performing duties in non-non- term weeks that are directly associated with the leadership position; when the teacher has boarding house responsibilities and the teacher is performing those duties during term weeks and non-term weeks; and exceptional circumstances, such as the requirement to provide pastoral care to students in the event of a tragedy in a School community, in which a teacher may be recalled to perform duties relating to their position. Each School will provide written notice of the term weeks and days in non-term times on which its teachers are required to attend, six months in advance of the requirement to attend. There shall be no School required professional development in non-term weeks other than The 3 days prior to students commencing school at the beginning of Term 1 for professional development and planning activities. That time when a School decides to reduce the days of attendance of students in order to provide professional development to teachers, continuous to non-term weeks. The annual salary and any applicable allowances payable under this Agreement are paid in full satisfaction of a teacher's entitlements for the School year or a proportion of the School year. A teacher's absence from a School during the non-term weeks at the end of the year is deemed for the purposes of the NES only, to include their entitlement to annual leave. The Schools and teachers recognise that teacher workload is a matter that needs to continue to be addressed at the individual School to meet its educational, institutional and community needs. The composition of classes will be determined by consultation to enable teachers to best meet the needs of students. Factors to be taken into account will be the educational, social and emotional needs of the students and the level of additional support that will be made available to teachers. Consultation with the relevant teachers and the development of a management plan will form part of the process to cater for students with special needs. The School will consider carefully the requirements for resources to meet students’ needs. The Schools and teachers recognise the following components of a teacher’s work: Core Activity refers to those activities that have formed and will continue to form an essential part of each teacher’s responsibility and workload and consists of two parts: Curricular Activity, which means time-tabled, student contact time with students for the purposes of pastoral care, instruction in academic disciplines or organisational matters, usually in a classroom but elsewhere on occasions; Co-curricular Activity, which means professional activity undertaken by a teacher as an essential adjunct to “curricular activity” and includes such activities as: • Staff meetings • Faculty meetings • Co-ordination, subject level meetings, committees • Parent-Teacher Interviews • Yard and Bus Duties • Sports Day (out of timetabled time) • Open Day • Religious Observances eg Staff Bible Study, Staff Morning Devotions, Sunday Services • School Fair • Annual Valedictory Services • Committee meeting and preparation (out of timetabled time) • Twilight tea • Camps (where not considered extra-curricular activities) • Staff Retreat • Sports Coaching if curriculum related (otherwise extracurricular) • School required professional development (after school hours) The Consultative Committee in each workplace has the ability to vary or add to this list of activities that are specific to that workplace. There shall be a co-curricular cap of 200 hours per annum, subject to the Teacher Workload Agreement and subject to a maximum of 130 hours per semester. Consideration shall be given to spreading the hours on co-curricular activities evenly over the semester. Contribution to the co-curricular cap while on camps will be deemed to be 17.5 hours for every 24 hours. Extra-Curricular Activity means the organisation, management or supervision of cultural, social and sporting activities which the School deems to be a desirable component of the educational program of the School. Since extra-curricular activities are fundamental to the educational and cultural character of a School, teachers are expected to share in these activities to the extent of any balance left in the co-curricular workload cap. If a School wishes to offer extra-curricular activities in addition to the Teacher Workload Agreement; staffing of such activities will occur with the agreement of interested staff. The workload of a teacher who does not volunteer to participate in such additional extra-curricular activities will not be increased above the co-curricular cap. A school will negotiate with teachers who volunteer to engage in extra-curricular activities which are above the co-curricular cap, to ascertain if it is necessary, to compensate for the extracurricular involvement and where compensation is necessary the School will negotiate a schedule of compensation. In Schools where extracurricular programs are established, a schedule of compensation for participating teachers will be developed and reviewed annually. A part-time teacher's participation in co-curricular and extracurricular activities is on a pro-rata basis consistent with the proportion of engagement in relation to a full time teacher. Part-time teachers are required to attend parent-teacher interviews. Student Contact Time and Non-Contact Time for Full Time Teachers Primary Teachers The maximum Student Contact for full time teachers per week shall be as shown in the table below. Teacher Workplace Agreements can vary this benchmark by up to ½ hour if there is a need (for example to connect with bus schedules) The minimum Non-Contact Time in hours per week also known as Non-Instruction Time (NIT), shall be a minimum as shown in the table below: Maximum Student Contact Time (hours per week) Minimum Non-Contact Time (hours per week) Maximum Total Timetable Time (hours per week) Non-contact time for part time teachers shall be in proportion of hours worked to the full time equivalent.Observances

Workload and Hours of Work. A guide will be provided to the schools on the development of the Teacher Workload Agreement. Workload ‌ All workload matters not specifically dealt with elsewhere in this Agreement are to be negotiated by the Consultative Committee considered through a joint decision making process at each School and shall be recorded in the '‘Teacher Workload Agreement' for that school. The matters that ’ in accordance with the following: For the purpose of making the ‘Teacher Workload Agreement’, a working group of School representatives and teacher representatives (who may be included in members of the Consultative Committee or other teachers elected for the specific purpose of making the agreement) shall be formed. Teacher representatives shall be elected by and from the teaching staff. Once the Teacher Workload Agreement at has been adopted, the school are Student contact time as per Clause 49.22 Co Curricular activities as per Clause 49.16 Extra Curricular Activities as per Clauses 49.16, 49.17 and 49.18 Class sizes as per Clause 49.23 Measures to accommodate for workload allocations for some teachers at various times of the year that are either under or over the normal allocations at the Schoolworking group is no longer required. The Teacher Workload Agreement may not contain conditions that are less favourable than the benchmarks in this Clause. Once the matters to be included in the Teacher Workload Agreement have been agreed by the Consultative Committee the following process will be followed: Teaching staff shall have a minimum of seven (7) clear working days to review the proposed Teacher Workload Agreement workload agreement before a ballot is taken to approve the agreementvoting. The vote will be by secret ballot of the teachers and decided by a simple majority of votes cast. The documented agreement is to be signed by the Principal principal and an elected staff representative. If agreement about changes to the workload under this Clause clause 26 cannot be reached, the status quo prior to commencement of negotiations will remain. Any concerns about the implementation of the Teacher Workload Agreement workload agreement shall be addressed by through the Consultative CommitteeCommittee in that School. The Teacher Workload Agreement will agreement may be reviewed annually. The timing of the any review will be determined by the Principal Consultative Committee as scheduled in that School. Either the school or members the teacher representatives on the Consultative Committee may initiate the annual review of the Consultative Committee. This should occur no later than the beginning of term 4 in any year to ensure schedules and timetables can be ready for the beginning of the following year. A copy of the reviewed and endorsed Teacher Workload Agreement for each school will be lodged with the LSA each yearworkload agreement. If teachers are of the opinion that appropriate joint decision making on the matter of workload has not taken place, then the dispute resolution process will be used. The following Clauses 49.5 to 49.22 clauses (26.3 - 26.9) supplement the NES in respect of maximum weekly hours. Due to the operational requirements of a School, the ordinary hours of work for a teacher may be averaged over a 12 month period provided that the hours in excess of 38 hours (for a full time teacher) in a particular week are reasonable for the purposes of subsection 62(1) of the NES and the teacher may refuse to work additional hours if they are unreasonableunreasonable as provided at subsection 62(2). In determining whether additional hours are reasonable subsection 62(3) of the NES applies and the following must be taken into account: Any risk to the teacher’s health and safety from working the additional hours; The teacher’s personal circumstances, including family responsibilities; responsibilities;‌ The needs of the workplace or enterprise in which the teacher is employed; Whether the teacher is entitled to receive overtime paymentsreceive, penalty rates or other compensation for, or a level of remuneration that reflects an expectation of, working additional hours; Any notice given by the School of any request or requirement to work the additional hours; Any notice given by the teacher of the teacher’s intention to refuse to work the additional hours; The usual patterns of work in the industry, or the part of an industry, in which the teacher works; The nature of the teacher’s role, and level of responsibility; Whether the additional hours are in accordance with averaging terms included in this Agreement, or with an averaging arrangement agreed to by the School and teacher under section 64 of the 64, NES; Any other relevant matter. The ordinary hours of work for a teacher during term weeks are variable. A teacher is not normally required to attend for periods of time when the students are not present, subject to the needs of the School with regard to professional development, student free days and other activities requiring the teacher's attendance. The maximum number of school days that a teacher will be required to attend during term weeks and non-term weeks will be 203 (including gazetted public holidays holidays) during the scheduled term weeks in each school year. The following circumstances are not included when calculating the 203 teacher attendance days: co-curricular activities that are conducted on a weekend; weekend;‌ extra-curricular activities; activities school-related overseas and interstate trips, conferences and similar activities undertaken by mutual consent during non-term weeks; when the teacher appointed to a leadership position is performing duties in non-term weeks that are directly associated with the leadership position; when the teacher has boarding house responsibilities and the teacher is performing those duties during term weeks and non-term weeks; and exceptional circumstances, such as the requirement to provide pastoral care to students in the event of a tragedy in a School community, in which a teacher may be recalled to perform duties relating to their position. Each School will provide written notice of the term weeks and days in non-term times on which its teachers are required to attend, six months in advance of the requirement to attend. There shall be no School required professional development in non-end of term weeks breaks other than The 3 up to three (3) days prior to students commencing school at the beginning of Term 1 for professional development and planning activities. That time when a School school decides to reduce the days of attendance of students in order to provide professional development to teachers, continuous contiguous to non-term weeks. The annual salary and any applicable allowances payable under this Agreement are paid in full satisfaction of a teacher's entitlements for the School year or a proportion of the School year. A teacher's absence from a School during the non-term weeks at the end of the year is deemed for the purposes of the NES only, to include their entitlement to annual leave. The Schools and teachers recognise that teacher workload is a matter that needs to continue to be addressed at the individual School to meet its educational, institutional and community needs. The composition of classes will be determined by consultation to enable teachers to best meet the needs of students. Factors to be taken into account will be the educational, social and emotional needs of the students and the level of additional support that will be made available to teachers. Consultation with the relevant teachers and the development of a management plan will form part of the process to cater for students with special needs. The School will consider carefully the requirements for resources to meet students’ needs. The Schools and teachers recognise the following components of a teacher’s work: Core Activity refers to those activities that have formed and will continue to form an essential part of each teacher’s responsibility and workload and consists of two parts: Curricular Activity, which means time-tabled, student face-to-face contact time with students for the purposes of pastoral care, instruction in academic disciplines or organisational matters, usually in a classroom but elsewhere on occasions; Co-curricular Activity, which means professional activity undertaken by a teacher as an essential adjunct to “curricular activity” and includes such activities as: • Staff meetings • Faculty meetings • Co-ordination, subject level meetings, committees • Parent-Teacher Interviews • Yard and Bus Duties • Sports Day (out of timetabled time) • Open Day day or evening • Religious Observances eg Staff Bible Study, Staff Morning Devotions, Sunday Services • School Fair • Annual Valedictory Services • Committee meeting and preparation (out of timetabled time) • Twilight tea • Camps (where not considered extra-curricular activities) • Staff Retreat • Sports Coaching if curriculum related (otherwise extracurricular) • School required professional development (after school hours) • Home visits • Pastoral care The Consultative Committee in each workplace has the ability to vary or add to this list of activities that are specific to that workplace. There Teachers shall not be a co-curricular cap required to do more than 100 hours of 200 hours per annum, subject to the Teacher Workload Agreement and subject to a maximum of 130 hours per semester. Consideration shall be given to spreading the hours on co-curricular activities evenly over the per semester. Contribution A teacher’s responsibility to the undertake co-curricular cap while on camps will duties shall be deemed balanced against the teacher’s family, social, professional and other responsibilities. Nothing in these clauses precludes an employer paying an allowance to be 17.5 hours a teacher for every 24 hoursundertaking particular activities such as production of school play, magazine, coaching a team. Extra-Curricular Activity means the organisation, management or supervision of cultural, social and sporting activities which the School deems to be a desirable component of the educational program of the School. A teacher’s responsibility to undertake extra curricula duties shall be balanced against the teacher’s family, social and professional responsibilities. Nothing in these clauses precludes an employer paying an allowance to a teacher for undertaking a particular extra curricula activity such as the production of a School play, magazine or coaching a team. Since extra-curricular activities are fundamental to the educational and cultural character of a School, teachers are expected to share in these activities to the extent of any balance left in the co-curricular workload capcap of 100 hours per semester. The consultative process in place at the schools will be the means for negotiating the level of teachers’ involvement in Co and Extra-curricular activities at each school. The schools are at various stages of development and have different needs. If a School wishes to offer extra-curricular activities in addition to the Teacher Workload Agreementschool workload agreement; staffing of such activities will occur with the agreement of interested staff. The Teacher workload shall be determined at each school by means of a teacher who does not volunteer the consultative approach. Both employers and employees recognise: the importance of DOTT time; that teaching timetables will be negotiated prior to participate the beginning of the year in such additional extra-curricular activities will not be increased above consultation with teachers and the co-curricular cap. school executive; A school will negotiate with teachers who volunteer to engage in extra-curricular activities which are above the co-curricular cap, to ascertain if it is necessary, to compensate for the extracurricular involvement and where compensation is necessary the School will negotiate a schedule of compensation. In Schools where extracurricular programs are established, a schedule of compensation for participating teachers will be developed and reviewed annuallyagreed during the life of this agreement. A part-time teacher's participation in co-curricular and extracurricular activities is on a pro-rata basis consistent with the proportion of engagement in relation to a full time teacher. Part-time teachers are required to attend parent-teacher interviews. Student Contact Time and Non-Contact Time for Full Time Teachers Primary Teachers Face to Face Teaching The maximum Student Contact face to face teaching hours for any full time teacher in: middle or senior school shall be no more than 0.8 of a full teaching load and primary school it shall be no more than 0.9 of a full teaching load.‌ Duties other than Teaching Time (DOTT) In addition to face-to-face teaching hours, the following periods of time (exclusive of recess and lunchtime) are provided to teachers to perform other than face-to-face teaching duties within the normal school day or normal operating hours: Senior and Middle 320 minutes per week Kindergarten and Primary 200 minutes per week‌ If Y6 is part of a primary school, then the DOTT time will be as for a primary school. If Y6 is part of a middle school, then the DOTT time will be as for a middle school.‌ The use of DOTT time may be at the discretion of the teacher within the parameters of its definition. DOTT time is a matter that is to be resolved by consultation at each school. The schools are at various stages of development and have different needs. The Consultative processes shall take the concerns of employees about the impact of using assigned DOTT time to cover periods of relief DOTT activities requiring a staff member to be off-campus should be negotiated with the appropriate supervisor. Meetings Meetings include staff, department, curriculum, parent-teacher meetings falling outside the timetable but do not include meetings on Pupil Free Days or morning briefings. Meetings shall be as shown limited to a maximum of 70 minutes per week per teacher, averaged over a term. Meetings will not start earlier than 8am nor finish later than 5pm unless so agreed by people involved in the table belowmeeting Nothing in this clause precludes a meeting from being held within the timetable. School organised Parent-Teacher Workplace Agreements can vary this benchmark interviews (including “Student Led Conferences”) are not to be conducted beyond 7.00 pm unless by up mutual agreement. Class Sizes The Optimum class sizes are: Kindergarten class size may be less than or equal to ½ hour if there is 20 students. Pre-primary to Year 2 class size may be less than or equal to 25 students. For all other classes (Y3 to Y12) class size may be less than or equal to 28 students. Practical Classes in Middle and Senior Secondary Schools will be an appropriate number dependent on a need (for example to connect with bus schedules) The minimum Non-Contact Time in hours per week also known as Non-Instruction Time (NIT)risk assessment of the activity, the workspace, and any Lutheran School Officer support provided. A risk assessment shall be conducted by the teacher in conjunction with the Principal or delegate. Students with Special Educational Needs The schools have a minimum as shown in the table below: Maximum Student Contact Time (hours per week) Minimum Non-Contact Time (hours per week) Maximum Total Timetable Time (hours per week) Non-contact time for part time teachers shall be in proportion of hours worked commitment to the full time equivalent.provision of education to students with special education needs. The meeting of special needs of students allocated to classes will be dealt with in accordance with clause 26.11 to the extent that funding is available. The school shall provide, as soon as practical, all relevant information to the teachers assigned students with verified special needs before the consultation concerning the composition and size of the class takes place, pursuant to sub-clause 26.11. The school may provide appropriate ‘general staff class room support’ to the extent of funding available. General staff will be provided with relevant information about the special needs of the students. Within the school’s resources, the school may provide the following classroom support: appropriate training for employees relevant to the student’s special educational need or impairment. Training may include: