Resource Periods and Planning Time. The Employer and the D.T.U. agree that adequate planning time is important to the improvement of the quality of education and should be encouraged and focused on professional activities. Professional activities, for the purpose of this article, include teacher initiated activities such as individual and common planning, collaborative planning, beginning teacher activities, observing model classrooms, school improvement and other committee work, tutoring, research, academic counseling of students and parents, communicating student academic progress to parents, supervision of students, developing individual education plans (I.E.P.) for students experiencing academic or behavioral problems, peer teacher programs, coordinating follow up academic assignments for student absentees due to illness or assignment to hospital home-bound or other special programs, i.e. I.S.S.P.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
