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.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The work day shall be for seven (7) hours and ten (10) minutes. Within that seven (7) hours and ten (10) minutes, the administration has the right to make assignments that are not in conflict with any other provision of this Agreement.
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
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. The Board shall strive for a minimum of 300 minutes each week for preparation in the elementary. In any year where there are not 300 minutes available for elementary preparation, a committee, made up of an equal number of teachers (appointed by the Association President) and Administrators (appointed by the Superintendent), will meet to evaluate the schedule and make a recommendation to maximize and/or increase planning time. Recommendations will be made to the Association President and Superintendent.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. 10.1 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 regularly scheduled arrival and dismissal times for teachers of the Trenton Public Schools shall be as follows: Teachers Instruction Students Teachers School Arrive Begins Dismissed Dismissed 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.
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.
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.
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.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. All teachers in the system will be required to report at 8:00 a.m. and the teacher day shall end at 3:36 p.m., unless adjusted start and stop times are agreed upon between teacher, union and administrator. Teachers are encouraged to remain for a sufficient period of time after the close of the pupils' school day to attend to those matters that require attention except that on Fridays or days preceding holidays or vacations, the teacher's day shall end at the same time as dismissal of the high school and middle school. The Board and the Association agree that closing limitation in this paragraph will be waived in order to accommodate regular faculty meetings or other functions which are necessary to the operation of the system. At the building principal’s discretion, regular monthly faculty meetings will be scheduled either two times per month with each being a maximum of thirty (30) minutes in duration, or once per month at a maximum duration of sixty (60) minutes. Additional meetings may be called by mutual agreement of the District and the Association. When stormy weather necessitates an early dismissal, teachers will remain an additional thirty (30) minutes unless sooner released by the building principal.
