Common use of Resource Periods and Planning Time Clause in Contracts

Resource Periods and Planning Time. The Employer and the DTU 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, preparing for instructional and other classroom activities, classroom organization, 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 (IEP) 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.

Resource Periods and Planning Time. The Employer and the DTU 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, preparing for instructional and other classroom activities, classroom organization, 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 (IEP.) 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.