Common use of Middle School/High School Clause in Contracts

Middle School/High School. 1) In the Middle School and High School, the members of each department shall meet with the appropriate administrator to discuss their teaching preferences and assignments and to attempt to cooperatively determine such for the next school year. In those departments where assignments cannot be agreed to cooperatively, the administrator shall make the final tentative assignment. a) The building administrator shall make supervisory assignments each year according to requests made in (B.1) above except when it is administratively impossible or the teacher does not meet the criteria established for such assignment. Whenever possible these assignments will be alternated among teachers. b) It is further understood that teachers who receive supervisory assignments shall be expected to supervise the program, children, and lay personnel involved. However, the teacher shall not be responsible for the actions of lay personnel. c) In the High School a ratio of one supervisory person per hundred students shall be maintained for study hall and lunch duty unless additional teachers over and above a building's allocation would have to be hired in order to conform with this provision. d) Any teacher who requests but does not receive such a supervisory assignment shall have the reasons placed in writing, at his/her request, after s/he has discussed such request with the appropriate administrator. 2) No teacher in the Middle School or High School shall be assigned to teach outside his/her area of certification. 3) No Middle School or High School teacher’s assignment shall contain more than three (3) separate preparations not shall any such teacher have more than three (3) consecutive periods of assigned classroom responsibility unless: a) A teacher suggests to the building administrator that s/he be assigned to more than three (3). b) It can be shown that compliance with this provision would mean a curtailment of the educational program which could not otherwise be avoided. c) A teacher would not have the required number of assignments. 4) The number of different rooms to which a teacher is assigned shall be held to the absolute minimum which is educationally sound and administratively possible.

Middle School/High School. 1) In the Middle School and High School, the members of each department shall meet with the appropriate administrator to discuss their teaching preferences and assignments and to attempt to cooperatively determine such for the next school year. In those departments where assignments cannot be agreed to cooperatively, the administrator shall make the final tentative assignment. a) The building administrator shall make supervisory assignments each year according to requests made in (B.1) above except when it is administratively impossible or the teacher does not meet the criteria established for such assignment. Whenever possible these assignments will be alternated among teachers. b) It is further understood that teachers who receive supervisory assignments shall be expected to supervise the program, children, and lay personnel involved. However, the teacher shall not be responsible for the actions of lay personnel. c) In the High School a ratio of one supervisory person per hundred students shall be maintained for study hall and lunch duty unless additional teachers over and above a building's allocation would have to be hired in order to conform with this provision. d) Any teacher who requests but does not receive such a supervisory assignment shall have the reasons placed in writing, at his/her request, after s/he has discussed such request with the appropriate administrator. 2) No teacher in the Middle School or High School shall be assigned to teach outside his/her area of certification. 3) No Middle School or High School teacher’s assignment shall contain more than three (3) separate preparations not shall any such teacher have more than three (3) consecutive periods of assigned classroom responsibility unless: a) A teacher suggests to the building administrator that s/he be assigned to more than three (3). b) It can be shown that compliance with this provision would mean a curtailment of the educational program which could not otherwise be avoided. c) A teacher would not have the required number of assignments. 4) The number of different rooms to which a teacher is assigned shall be held to the absolute minimum which is educationally sound and administratively possible.three