PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. 11.1 The Board will continue the practice of hiring only fully certificated degree teachers. In cases where it is not possible to hire such teachers, then the Board may fill position(s) with a teacher holding temporary certification, and the Association shall be so informed. The Board will continue to seek fully certificated degree teachers for such positions and make replacements as soon as practicable.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. A. Teacher clerks or teacher helpers shall not be used as substitute teachers. Student teachers and teacher’s aides, so defined in the School Code, shall not act as substitute teachers except as it may be permitted in the regular course of the teacher’s training program with the approval of the sponsoring college or university.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. Insofar as possible, all faculty members in a school or other academic learning environment including, but not limited to, virtual schools, school without walls, and web-based instructional programs shall have equitable loads of classes and other professional duties. Scheduling shall take into consideration such extra, non-compensated duties assigned to unit members. The principal and the faculty in each school shall design a procedure for assigning such duties on an equitable basis.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. A. A vacancy shall be defined as a position that was caused by the resignation, retirement, transfer, termination or created/modified by the employer.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. A. The district will endeavor to give teachers their tentative assignments on the first school day in June, but no later than the last day of school. In the event that changes in such schedule are proposed, all teachers affected shall be notified promptly and consulted. Changes shall only be made when necessary. The secondary administration shall communicate with staff regarding the criteria used in the scheduling process.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. 8-A Teachers shall be assigned to teaching assignments within the scope of their teaching certificates, and where applicable, meet the highly qualified guidelines of the Michigan Department of Education and the ESEA/NCLB Act of 2001. A teacher, who does not meet the highly qualified guidelines of the Michigan Department of Education and the ESEA/NCLB Act of 2001 for positions that are available, may be assigned to a position that does not require the teacher to meet the highly qualified guidelines of the Michigan Department of Education and the ESEA/NCLB Act of 2001.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. A. All teachers shall be given written notice of their tentative schedules for the forthcoming year no later than the preceding first day of June. In the event that changes in such schedule are proposed, all teachers affected shall be notified promptly and consulted. Changes shall only be made when necessary. The secondary administration shall communicate with staff regarding the criteria used in the scheduling process.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. A. Length of Work Day The length of the member workday shall not exceed 7.5 consecutive hours and shall include a thirty (30) minute duty free lunch period. This shall not preclude additional hours for faculty meetings, special education staffing, parent conferences, open house and curriculum night. Part-time staff members will be expected to be available for parent-teacher conferences.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. 11.1 Teachers in the Lebanon High School and departmentalized teachers at the Lebanon Middle School shall not be assigned more than four (4) different subject preparations or more than five (5) periods of classroom instruction for any given school day. All teachers in Lebanon Middle School and Lebanon High School shall have one (1) personal planning period per day equal to one (1) class period within the student school day. If a teacher agrees to teach an additional class in lieu of a duty at the high school or personal preparation period at the middle school, that teacher will be compensated at a rate of 1/5 of his/her base salary. All teachers in Grades K- 4 shall have one planning period per day of at least 40 consecutive minutes which will occur during the student day. Teachers at all grade levels shall have a duty-free lunch equal in length to the student lunch period. Except as otherwise provided in this paragraph, the building administrator has the right to assign a teacher to any duty related to the education and/or supervision of students at any time during the teacher work day. Teachers may agree to perform duties before or after the work day in lieu of a duty during the teacher work day.
PROFESSIONAL ASSIGNMENTS. Any assignment in addition to the normal teaching schedule during the regular school year, including driver education, extra duties enumerated in Schedule B and summer course, shall not be obligatory, but shall be with the consent of the teacher. Preference in making such assignments shall be given to those qualified teachers regularly employed by the school district, unless the assignment is currently held by a qualified person other than a teacher regularly employed by the school district. In that event, the administration would not necessarily have to give preference to a teacher regularly employed by the school district but will give all qualified applicants equal consideration. Summer school shall be compensated according to the same hourly rate paid for teaching during preparation time (2005-2006 $26.50 per hour). The rate shall increase $0.25 per hour in each successive year of the agreement. The administration shall have the right to select which faculty members who previously taught in the summer school program and who satisfactorily continued to serve in the summer program in successive years (without interruption) shall have the right to continue in that capacity. Any summer school program that is not operated by the White Cloud Public Schools, or a consortium (excluding grant funded programs per Article III Section N) that includes White Cloud Public Schools, will not be subject to compensation and benefits set forth in this contract.
