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. 1. School principals should form a teacher resource scheduling committee that includes resource teachers or some other method of receiving and discussing input from classroom, resource, and ESE teachers when developing the resource teacher schedule. Because of the implementation of the extended day kindergarten, kindergarten classes should be given the same time allotment consideration as other primary classes when developing classroom resource schedules at individual schools. The schedule must include planning time for each teacher in accordance with the following requirements.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
