Teacher Preparation Time. The District recognizes the importance of teacher preparation time and will endeavor to provide each teacher with adequate preparation time during student contact time. The following are intended as guidelines that represent the current allocations of teacher preparation time:
Teacher Preparation Time. A. Teacher Preparation Time may be awarded at the discretion of the Adult Education administration to teachers when:
Teacher Preparation Time. All F.T.E. unit members shall have 100 minutes preparation time per week within the workday. Employees working less than a full day will receive a prorated share of F.T.E. prep time. Each F.T.E. will have at least one 50-minute block of prep time. Any accumulated loss of preparation time of over 150 minutes within an instructional year due to holidays and conference week, but excluding vacation days and minimum days, shall be provided for by a roving substitute, compensatory time, or paid to the unit member by the agreed upon hourly rate of pay. The form of compensation must be initiated by the unit member and agreed upon in writing by the District and unit member.
Teacher Preparation Time. All teachers shall receive at a minimum of one hundred fifty (150) minutes of weekly preparation time.
Teacher Preparation Time. A. Teachers in grades 6-12 shall be provided the equivalent of one (1) class period during a normal student contact day for preparation.
Teacher Preparation Time. Each teacher will be scheduled for an average of sixty (60) minutes per day planning time free from student contact. At the elementary level, an average of 30 minutes of preparation time shall be during the student day and an additional 30 minutes shall be designated prior to the student day. All building committee meetings should seek to end before this time. When a lyceum or planned school program falls at a time when a teacher is scheduled for planning time, the classroom teacher or the special subject teacher may be required by the administration to attend and supervise students at the program, but in no case shall teachers be required to perform such duty more than twice in a single month, and no more than a total of six (6) times per year. The administration may set a general staff meeting at times when teachers are scheduled for planning time, but the number of such meetings shall not exceed nine (9) per year. Teachers will be scheduled for twenty (20) minutes per day of “electronic reporting time” to address activities including: responding to email, voice mail, phone calls, and updating grades.
Teacher Preparation Time. The time during which a teacher is scheduled for planning or preparation shall be used by the teacher for planning instruction for his/her students. The planning shall be done in the teacher’s classroom or other location in the building. The teacher may use the planning/ preparation time as a conference period with a parent when the conference is held within the school building to which the teacher is assigned. A teacher may leave the building during his/her planning/preparation time when authorization to leave the building has been pre-approved by the building principal. However, every 10th planning period shall be a PLC meeting. Department and/or grade level teams and the building principal, as appropriate, shall collaboratively develop and publish the PLC calendar no later than the Friday of the first week of school. PLC shall not be scheduled on Fridays or a day before a holiday. If the PLC would have been scheduled to fall on the day before a holiday, it must be rescheduled.
Teacher Preparation Time. The purpose of release time is to enable the teacher to be free from non-instructional duties, thus allowing time for daily preparation during school hours. Each elementary teacher will be guaranteed a minimum of 200 minutes a week for instructional preparation and the administration will make reasonable efforts to provide 40 minutes a day, with at least 30 minutes consecutively. If days exist when an elementary teacher has no preparation time, the administration will make reasonable attempts not to schedule such teachers for morning, recess or bus duties. If a week exists where a teacher does not receive 200 minutes of preparation time, the administration shall provide coverage somewhere else in the teacher's schedule or be excused from an after school meeting within two (2) weeks of the lost preparation time. Should the district have a planned shortened school day, then the teachers will still receive a proportional amount of preparation time of at least half of their original preparation time. Realizing the importance of adequate and uninterrupted planning time to the elementary level teacher, the administration will make reasonable efforts to secure substitutes when specialists (Art, Library, Music and PE) are absent and additionally will make reasonable efforts to schedule all required meetings at times other than planning periods. Preparation time will be regularly scheduled for all middle and high school teachers in order to permit them to meet their instructional responsibilities. Teachers may be assigned up to seventy-five percent {75%) of their workday as classroom/instructional time.
Teacher Preparation Time. All teachers shall have a daily preparation period outside the student day and other necessary teacher activities. Teachers may leave the building during the preparation period. The Board shall provide at elementary buildings a minimum thirty (30) continuous minute daily preparation period. The Board shall provide at the secondary buildings a minimum daily preparation period equivalent to one full class period.
Teacher Preparation Time. 1. Each elementary teacher shall have at least a 35 minute preparation period each day.
