Classroom Management The certificated classroom teacher demonstrates in his/her performance a competent level of knowledge and skill in organizing the physical and human elements in the educational setting.
Classrooms The Board shall be responsible for maintaining a standard of cleanliness in each teacher’s classroom.
Classroom Visitation To provide patrons of the District the opportunity to visit classrooms with the least interruption to the teaching process, the following guidelines are set forth:
A. All visitors to a school and/or classroom shall obtain the approval of the principal, and if the visit is to a classroom, the time will be arranged after the principal or his designee has conferred with the employee, if possible.
B. Whenever possible, the employee shall be afforded the opportunity to confer with the classroom visitor before and/or after the visitation.
C. This provision does not apply to administrators and Board of Directors members.
Instructors 7.1 All instructors teaching COLLEGE courses offered as part of this CCAP Agreement must meet the minimum qualifications for instruction in a California community college as set forth in sections 53410 and 58060 of Title V of the California Code of Regulations, as required or hired as part of an Instructional Service Agreement. Instructor qualifications are consistent with requirements courses given by the WVMCCD. Cal. Code Regs., Title 5, § 53410.
7.2 Consistent with the terms negotiated between WVMCCD and the faculty union, WVMFT instructors for courses offered as part of this CCAP Agreement shall be assigned as follows: • Courses will first be offered to regular faculty of COLLEGE that meet the above- stated minimum qualifications and have participated. • If courses are not filled by regular faculty, they will be offered to COLLEGE adjunct faculty who possess contractual rehire preference rights, and who meet the above-stated minimum qualifications. • If courses are still not filled, they may be offered to junior adjunct faculty and employees of CUHSD who meet the above-stated minimum qualifications.
7.3 WVMCCD shall be solely responsible for all salaries, wages, and benefits due to dual enrollment faculty who are WVMCCD employees. The CUHSD shall be solely responsible for the salaries, wages, and benefits due to the dual enrollment faculty who are CUHSD employees, unless otherwise agreed by CUHSD and WVMCCD.
7.4 The CCAP Agreement Appendix A shall specify which participating institution, either CUHSD or WVMCCD, will be the employer of record for purposes of assignment monitoring and reporting to the county office of education. (Ed. Code § 76004 (m)(1).)
7.5 CUHSD will assume reporting responsibilities pursuant to applicable federal teacher quality mandates. (Ed. Code § 76004 (m)(2).)
7.6 Instructors who teach courses offered as part of this CCAP Agreement must provide the supervision and control reasonably necessary for the protection of the health and safety of students and may not have any other assigned duty during the instructional activity. In the event of an emergency during the teaching of a course, instructors will act in accordance with WVMCCD policies, procedures and code of conduct and inform CUHSD as soon as reasonably possible. If the course is held on CUHSD property, instructors shall follow the direction of the Principal or his/her designee to coordinate the safety of the students in attendance during the emergency.
7.7 Instructors who teach courses under this CCAP Agreement shall comply with the fingerprinting requirements set forth in Ed Code section 45125 or as amended; the tuberculosis testing and risk assessment requirements of California Health and Safety Code section121525 or as amended; completion of training on mandated reporting as set forth in Education Code section 44691or as amended; and submission of a New Employee Data Input Form (i.e., Emergency Contact Information). In addition to any other prohibition or provision, no person who has been convicted of a violent or serious felony, as defined by Education Code section 44332.6 (c) shall be eligible to teach any courses offered as part of this CCAP Agreement or otherwise provide services on a CUHSD site. The CCAP Agreement Appendix shall specify additional procedures for faculty under this agreement.
7.8 Prior to teaching, faculty provided by the CUHSD shall receive discipline-specific training and an orientation from WVMCCD at COLLEGE regarding, but not limited to, course curriculum, assessment criteria, pedagogy, course philosophy, testing and grading procedures record keeping, and other instructional responsibilities. Said training shall be approved by WVMCCD. In the event WVMCCD and CUHSD disagree regarding faculty training guidelines, the parties agree to meet and confer in good faith. If the parties cannot reach agreement within a reasonable time, WVMCCD shall make the final decision regarding the appropriate training and orientation for CUHSD faculty.
7.9 Faculty provided by the CUHSD may participate in professional development activities sponsored by the WVMCCD and shall be encouraged to participate in ongoing collegial activities address items such as address course content, course delivery, assessment, evaluation, and/or research and development in the field.
7.10 Faculty performance of all instructors, regardless of whether they are WVMCCD or CUHSD employees shall be evaluated by WVMCCD using the adopted evaluation process and standards for faculty of the WVMCCD. In conducting the evaluation, WVMCCD will provide CUHSD the opportunity to provide input. Such input will be given reasonable consideration.
7.11 WVMCCD shall determine the number of instructors, the ratio of instructors to students, and the subject areas of instruction, subject to approval by CUHSD. In the event of any disagreement, the parties agree to meet and confer in good faith. If the parties do not reach agreement, WVMCCD shall make the final determination.
Flexible Working Hours The Employer will, where operational requirements and efficiency of the service permit, authorize experiments with flexible working hours if the Employer is satisfied that an adequate number of Employees have requested and wish to participate in such an experiment.
Shift Rotation Routine shift rotation is not an approach to staffing endorsed by the Employer. Except for emergency situations where it may be necessary to provide safe patient care, shift rotation will not be utilized without mutual consent. If such an occasion should ever occur, volunteers will be sought first. If no one volunteers, the Employer will rotate shifts on an inverse seniority basis until the staff vacancies are filled.
Instructor Associated with the position of Instructor is a nominal workload of 195 hours per half-credit course. This nominal workload is normally made up of scheduled contact time with students and non-classroom time. The non-classroom time is made up of preparation of lectures, student consultation, marking or grading and course administration, including grade appeals and cases of academic dishonesty. In the case of a two-hour lecture per week, or the equivalent of a two-hour lecture per week, the incumbent shall also be responsible for the first hour of seminar in each course. Upon request by an Instructor, the Employer and the Instructor will review the workload for the course to ensure that assigned duties can be completed within the assigned workload of 195 nominal hours per half credit course (see Article
22.01 (a)). If it is determined that the work cannot be completed within the assigned time, the Employer may either 1) amend the contract to provide enough nominal hours to complete assigned duties; 2) provide additional resources (e.g. TAs, Course Coordinators, Marker-Graders, etc) to assist the member in completing the work within the assigned time; or 3) confirm the original workload assignment. In the case that the employer confirms the original workload assignment, the employee may request written instruction on how to complete the duties in the assigned time. If requested by the employee, the employer shall provide such written instruction.
Hours For the purposes of an unpaid 7.5-hour shift, the deduction from pay shall equate to 9.375 hours.
(f) Tour Exchange
Extra Hours For the purpose of Clause 20.13, extra hours means any hours available to be worked in excess of an employee’s regular schedule. The Corporation shall determine the extra hours it requires in each circumstance, and offer such hours to employees working in that Post Office in accordance with the provisions of this Clause.
(a) On each occasion that extra hours are to be worked, opportunities to work the extra hours are to be offered to employees who notify the Postmaster beforehand of their availability, on the basis of the first opportunity to the employee who works the greatest number of regularly scheduled hours per week, last opportunity to the employee who works the least number of regularly scheduled hours per week.
(b) Where two (2) or more employees are working the same number of hours per week, the opportunity shall be first offered to the employee with the longest continuous employment in that Post Office save that an employee who was formerly full-time and whose hours were reduced in accordance with Clause 12.05(a)(i) shall have priority.
(i) In the application of this Clause, it is understood that a Part-Time Assistant shall be granted an opportunity to work extra hours provided that the extra hours do not conflict with her regular schedule, and provided she does not work more than eight (8) hours per day, or forty (40) hours per week.
(ii) Subject to Clause 20.13(c)(i) the Part-Time Assistant who is granted the first opportunity to work extra hours should, while the opportunity lasts, end up working a total number of hours that is not less than the total number of hours worked by the Part-Time Assistant who accepts the second opportunity, and so on for each subsequent opportunity granted.
(d) Where all the extra hours to be worked cannot be covered by application of the principle expressed in (a), employees may be assigned to work the extra hours that cannot be covered, and/or those hours may be covered by other means.
(e) Application of this Clause entails no obligation on the part of the Corporation for equal distribution of extra hours.
Technical Training The CAISO and the Participating TOs shall respond to reasonable requests for support and provide relevant technical training to each other’s employees to support the safe, reliable, and efficient operation of the CAISO Controlled Grid and to comply with any NERC or WECC operator certification or training requirements. Examples of such technical training include, but are not limited to: (1) the theory or operation of new or modified equipment (e.g., control systems, Remedial Action Schemes, protective relays); (2) computer and applicator programs; and (3) CAISO (or Participating TO) requirements. The Parties shall enter into agreements regarding the timing, term, locations, and cost allocation for the training.
