Common use of Professional Hours Clause in Contracts

Professional Hours. The Board and the Association recognize that teaching has many responsibilities that demand bargaining unit members' time over and above the instructional day. These responsibilities include, by way of illustration, but not by way of limitation, attending faculty meetings and IEPC's; conducting student and parent conferences; preparing for effective teaching; evaluating student performance and progress; working on committees and committee assignments; correcting and evaluating student papers and themes; developing instructional materials; professional reading and study, and advanced college study. Therefore, the normal day for bargaining unit members shall be considered to be those hours required by the instructional day as well as the hours required to perform their other professional responsibilities, which will include by way of illustration, arriving on site ten (10) minutes before the start of school and remaining ten (10) minutes after students are dismissed, performing professional duties. The ten (10) minutes before and after school illustration is not intended for non-instructional days. 1. Part-time bargaining unit members shall have those hours that are stipulated by the Board at the time they are hired. a. Part-time bargaining unit members shall attend parent/teacher conferences and professional development days scheduled on the calendar with no additional compensation. The responsibility for instruction on said days will be rotated or otherwise shared equally between bargaining unit members sharing a single assignment, if those days are half days of instruction. b. Part-time bargaining unit members who are directed to attend professional development activities which are beyond the part-time bargaining unit member's normal hours of work and beyond those scheduled in the district calendar shall be compensated at the rate of forty dollars ($40.00) per one-half day at elementary, and fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour at secondary. 2. Planning time is subject to the following provisions: a. The teacher’s individual planning period is intended as a time when bargaining unit members are to be available in the buildings for calls from parents, conferences with parents or students, etc., and professional development in consensus with affected HEA members. b. All specials and shared staff teachers at the elementary level shall have their planning time scheduled in blocks of not less than fifteen (15) minutes in duration. Every effort will be made to provide thirty (30) minute blocks when possible. c. A member shall have access to a phone and computer to allow for communications and planning. 3. When a bargaining unit member must leave the building, he/she will notify the principal.

Professional Hours. The Board and the Association recognize that teaching has many responsibilities that demand bargaining unit members' time over and above the instructional day. These responsibilities include, by way of illustration, but not by way of limitation, attending faculty meetings and IEPC's; conducting student and parent conferences; preparing for effective teaching; evaluating student performance and progress; working on committees and committee assignments; correcting and evaluating student papers and themes; developing instructional materials; professional reading and study, and advanced college study. Therefore, the normal day for bargaining unit members shall be considered to be those hours required by the instructional day as well as the hours required to perform their other professional responsibilities, which will include by way of illustration, arriving on site ten (10) minutes before the start of school and remaining ten (10) minutes after students are dismissed, performing professional duties. The ten (10) minutes before and after school illustration is not intended for non-instructional days. 1. Part-time bargaining unit members shall have those hours that are stipulated by the Board at the time they are hired. a. Part-time bargaining unit members shall attend parent/teacher conferences and professional development days scheduled on the calendar with no additional compensation. The responsibility for instruction on said days will be rotated or otherwise shared equally between bargaining unit members sharing a single assignment, if those days are half days of instruction. b. Part-time bargaining unit members who are directed to attend professional development activities which are beyond the part-time bargaining unit member's normal hours of work and beyond those scheduled in the district calendar shall be compensated at the rate of forty dollars ($40.00) per one-half day at elementary, and fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour at secondary. 2. Planning time is subject to the following provisions: a. The teacher’s individual planning period is intended as a time when bargaining unit members are to be available in the buildings for calls from parents, conferences with parents or students, etc., and professional development in consensus with affected HEA members. b. All specials and shared staff teachers at the elementary level shall have their planning time scheduled in blocks of not less than fifteen (15) minutes in duration. Every effort will be made to provide thirty (30) minute blocks when possible. c. A member shall have access to a phone and computer to allow for communications and planning. 3. When a bargaining unit member must leave the building, he/she will notify the principal. 4. On teacher work days when students are not in attendance, bargaining unit members are expected to work a minimum of six

Professional Hours. The Board and the Association recognize that teaching has many responsibilities that demand bargaining unit members' time over and above the instructional day. These responsibilities include, by way of illustration, but not by way of limitation, attending faculty meetings and IEPC's; conducting student and parent conferences; preparing for effective teaching; evaluating student performance and progress; working on committees and committee assignments; correcting and evaluating student papers and themes; developing instructional materials; professional reading and study, and advanced college study. Therefore, the normal day for bargaining unit members shall be considered to be those hours required by the instructional day as well as the hours required to perform their other professional responsibilities, which will include by way of illustration, arriving on site ten (10) minutes before the start of school and remaining ten (10) minutes after students are dismissed, performing professional duties. The ten (10) minutes before and after school illustration is not intended for non-instructional days. 1. Part-time bargaining unit members shall have those hours that are stipulated by the Board at the time they are hired. a. Part-time bargaining unit members shall attend parent/teacher conferences and professional development days scheduled on the calendar with no additional compensation. The responsibility for instruction on said days will be rotated or otherwise shared equally between bargaining unit members sharing a single assignment, if those days are half days of instruction. b. Part-time bargaining unit members who are directed to attend professional development activities which are beyond the part-part- time bargaining unit member's normal hours of work and beyond those scheduled in the district calendar shall be compensated at the rate of forty dollars ($40.00) per one-half day at elementary, and fifteen dollars ($15.00) per hour at secondary. 2. Planning time is subject to the following provisions: a. The teacher’s individual planning period is intended as a time when bargaining unit members are to be available in the buildings for calls from parents, conferences with parents or students, etc. b. The team planning period is intended exclusively for purposes other than individual planning. Included by way of example, the use of team planning is work related to student issues, instructional and professional development in consensus curricular issues, scheduling, conferring with affected HEA membersadministration, etc. Teachers are to be at their meeting site during this time. b. c. It is agreed that one team planning period can be converted to an individual planning time twice per month. The principal must receive reasonable advance notice of the conversion to individual planning time. All team members must select the same day(s). d. All specials and shared staff teachers at the elementary level shall have their planning time scheduled in blocks of not less than fifteen (15) minutes in duration. Every effort will be made to provide thirty (30) minute blocks when possible. c. A member shall have access to a phone and computer to allow for communications and planning. 3. When a bargaining unit member must leave the building, he/she will notify the principal. 4. On teacher work days when students are not in attendance, bargaining unit members are expected to work a minimum of six (6) hours. a. On the half days which are designated for in-service each year, bargaining unit members will receive an annual amount of released time equal to the total amount of time established for in-service training in that particular year. b. On the half days which are designated for conference preparation and parent/teacher conferences, elementary bargaining unit members will be released at 11:30 a.