CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. It shall be the goal of the Board and Administration to establish and maintain the most favorable class size possible, consistent with the financial condition of the school district, state minimum standards and the availability of teaching space. Class size shall be adjusted as equitable as possible within each school building. When assigning special needs students, the principal, intervention specialist and regular education grade level teachers will discuss and decide the most appropriate placement.
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. A. The Board will make a good faith effort to meet the requirements of state law with respect to class size.
B. The Board will make a good faith effort to provide an appropriate classroom for each class of students.
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. A. The Board will make efforts within reason to assure that teacher-pupil ratios are equitable within schools. The Board will also make efforts within reason to assure that students are distributed in such a way that no one teacher is tasked with any particular subgroup.
B. Teachers whose class size exceeds the limits listed in Maximum Class Size and Class Load (See Appendix C) shall request relief from their principal.
C. The Principal or his designee will explore with the teacher all practical ways either to reduce the class size or to provide relief through local means without commitment of additional funds. If class size and class load cannot be reduced and it is determined that class size and class load has exceeded the maximum plus ten (10%) percent, adequate teacher relief will include but not be limited to the following: (1) aides, (2) additional equipment or materials, (3) compensatory time,
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. 683 684 A. Administrators will make efforts within reason to ensure that teacher student ratios are equitable 685 within schools. Administrators will also make efforts within reason to ensure that students are 686 distributed in such a way that no one teacher is tasked with any particular subgroup. 687 688 B. Definitions: 689 690 1. Class Size is the number of students assigned to a teacher for a period of instruction. In 691 elementary schools, where one teacher directs all learning, it is the number of students for whom a 692 teacher is responsible daily. In secondary schools or other schools in which teachers are 693 responsible for instruction in a particular subject, it is the number of students for whom a teacher is 694 responsible during a single period. 695 696 2. Class Load is the number of pupils students for whom teachers are responsible daily where the 697 teacher is assigned more than one class each day. 698 699 If a class consists of two grades, whichever of the two grades' maximum class size is the smallest 700 shall be the maximum class size for that class. 701
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. 708 709 A. Administrators will make efforts within reason to ensure that teacher student ratios are equitable 710 within schools. Administrators will also make efforts within reason to ensure that students are 711 distributed in such a way that no one teacher is tasked with any particular subgroup without 712 additional accommodation, assistance, or support. 713 714 B. Definitions: 715
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. A. It shall be the goal of the Board and Administration to establish and maintain the most favorable class size possible, consistent with the financial condition of the school district, state minimum standards and the availability of teaching space. Class sizes shall be adjusted as equitable as possible within each school building.
B. Beginning in Spring 2014, elementary and middle school regular teachers (sending and receiving) will meet together to recommend the best assignment for all students by skill level (high, medium, low), behavior, IEP, SWD, and 504. The principal and intervention specialist(s) will be invited. On the secondary level, the number of IEP, Students with Disabilities (SWD) and identified 504 students will be fairly and equitably dispersed among the teachers per subject area/course number.
C. If/when the TMEA has concerns with class size and staffing issues, such concerns shall be referred to the building and district level labor management committees.
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. While recognizing that final determination of class size and class load is vested in the sole discretion of the Board, the Association and District mutually subscribe to the principle that unduly large classes and unduly heavy class loads are educationally undesirable and should be avoided to the extent consistent with the economic means of the District and the health and safety of the students and staff.
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. 612 613 A. The Board will make efforts within reason to assure that teacher-pupil ratios are equitable within 614 schools. The Board will also make efforts within reason to assure that students are distributed in 615 such a way that no one teacher is tasked with any particular subgroup. 616 617 B. Teachers whose class size exceeds the limits listed in Maximum Class Size and Class Load (See 618 Appendix C) shall request relief from their principal. 619
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. 22.1 The employer shall strive where economically feasible and spatially possible to maintain the following class sizes (and class loads); A. Class size K-6 25:1 7-12 General Track 15:1
CLASS SIZE AND CLASS LOAD. A. The parties recognize that the number of students assigned to a class is a matter of basic educational policy and the District may assign any number of students it so desires to a teacher's class.
B. The following class size standards form the basis for receipt by K-12 teachers of the salaries set forth in Appendix 1. (Students are defined on an F.T.E. basis, rounded to the nearest whole number, as currently exists.)
1. K-5 teachers - up to twenty-seven and one-half (27.5) students.
2. K-5 split grade teachers - up to twenty-four and one-half (24.5) students.
3. Grade 6 Academic Block teachers:
a. Four (4) teacher house - up to one hundred twelve (112) students.
b. Three (3) teacher house - up to eighty-four (84) students;
c. Two (2) teacher house - up to fifty-six (56) students;
d. One (1) teacher house - up to twenty-eight (28) students.
4. Grades 6-12 teachers (excluding Academic Block and physical education, choral and instrumental music teachers) - up to thirty-two (32) students per class or one hundred fifty (150) students per teacher per day.
5. Grades 6-12 choral and instrumental music teachers - up to one hundred fifty (150) students per day with no limit per class, or averaged over day 1 and day 2 in middle school.
6. Grades 6-12 physical education - up to thirty-three (33) students per class or one hundred sixty (160) students per teacher per day, or averaged over day 1 and day 2 in middle school. provided for in the class size standards set forth in Section B above, the teacher so affected shall receive, as work overload compensation in addition to his/her scheduled salary, an overload rate of two point seven (2.7) percent as calculated in Section M of this Article for elementary teachers. An overload rate of .0054 of one percent as calculated in Section M of this Article will be given for each section in Grades 6-12 except Grade 6 Academic Block teachers. An overload rate of 2.7 percent as calculated in Section M of this Article will be divided equally among the number of sixth grade Academic Block teachers where the overload occurs.
