Planning and Preparation Time. 1. Planning and preparation time is time during the work day for instructional planning and preparation for the individual member's professional assignment. The member and the Department Director shall determine and schedule the amount of time necessary for prep time. NWRESD will annually review with all Administrators the contractual requirements associated with prep time. Labor-Management committee will include prep time as an agenda item at least two times per school- year for review of any concerns raised by members.
Planning and Preparation Time. 1. Pre-K through 5 Teachers. Insofar as practicable and provided there are enough special subject teachers employed by the Board, the Board will attempt to schedule one (1) planning period per day for full-time pre-K-5 teachers. Said pre- K-5 teachers shall use for their planning period the periods during which their classes receive instruction from music, art, foreign language, or physical education special subject teachers, unless from time to time they are asked by the special subject teachers to stay in the classroom to assist them. Such planning periods at the pre-K-5 level, including common planning time, shall be used for preparation time and other instructional responsibilities. It is understood that reasonable administrative requests/needs to meet will be honored. Regular classroom teachers at elementary grades 2-5 shall be released from two (2) periods of foreign language instruction each full week, thereby providing an additional fifty (50) minutes of planning time per week. First grade classroom teachers shall have an additional forty-five (45) minutes of planning time each full week, and during such additional planning time, instruction shall be provided by a certified teacher. Under normal circumstances, full-time special education teachers shall receive planning time of at least three hundred (300) minutes per week for preparation and other instructional responsibilities when it is feasible and appropriate. Full-time special subject teachers, Library Information Specialists, instructional resource teachers, resource room teachers, speech and language pathologists, psychologists and social workers covered by this Agreement at the elementary level shall, under normal circumstances, receive administratively scheduled planning time of no less than five (5) 30-minute uninterrupted blocks per week and reasonably equivalent to that provided to other elementary classroom teachers for preparation time and other instructional responsibilities.
Planning and Preparation Time. 10:6.1 Each employee shall receive a minimum of two hundred twenty-five (225) minutes per week of planning and preparation time within the student day. Such time should be in increments of 45 consecutive minutes. In the event of an abbreviated student day or emergencies (as defined in this agreement), every attempt will be made to equitably distribute planning time within that day.
Planning and Preparation Time. A. Each teacher shall receive a minimum of 200 minutes per week for a planning period.
Planning and Preparation Time. The remaining time will be preparation time. “An Employee’s preparation time” is Employee-directed planning time that may include preparing the classroom or the class lesson, collaborating with other Employees, and doing directly related follow-up activities, such as grading, corrections, classroom configuration, etc. At least forty (40) continuous minutes of preparation/planning time will be scheduled daily during the regular student day.
Planning and Preparation Time. No teacher shall be required to teach more than 180 minutes or four (4) consecutive periods without a relief period unless he/she has agreed to it. The administration shall make every reasonable effort to provide full-time teachers with a planning period in the morning and a planning period in the afternoon of each school day.
Planning and Preparation Time. A. Every teacher at the secondary schools shall be granted per day planning and preparation time equal to a class period.
Planning and Preparation Time. Each full-time Employee shall have four hundred (400) minutes of preparation and team planning time per five-day work week, as follows:
Planning and Preparation Time. Section 44.1 Except as otherwise authorized by Article 23, each high school teacher shall be allotted one (1) period per day for planning and preparation time. Each elementary teacher shall be allotted a minimum of forty (40) minutes per school day or two hundred (200) minutes per school week for planning and preparation time.
Planning and Preparation Time. Elementary preparation time includes an additional 50 minutes of planning time per week (total of 300 minutes) for a full-time teacher. The additional time will be used to support planning and preparation for instruction, including at least one weekly meeting to collaborate and co-plan for instruction. The meetings may be rescheduled at the discretion of the assigned team with approval by the building principal.
