TEACHING HOURS Sample Clauses

TEACHING HOURS. 1. A grade PPI-12 teacher's workday shall consist of not more than seven (7) hours and ten (10) minutes of formal responsibility. Hall duty may be included in the teacher's workday. Every effort will be made mutually by the Administration and the Association to deal with these duties in a most positive manner. The student day may be increased if necessary to meet the State time requirements for instructional hours. Within said time of formal responsibility, a teacher shall be entitled to the following: (a) A duty free lunch period no less than twenty-five (25) minutes to a maximum of thirty-five (35) minutes. (b) For a grade ECSE-5 grade teacher: a minimum of 250 minutes per week of time for preparation. Each preparation period to consist of a minimum of twenty-five (25) duty-free minutes. For a grade 6-12 teacher: a minimum of one preparation per day that shall be equivalent to a normal teaching period or an average of five normal teaching periods per week. (c) Cafeteria duty may be included in the teacher's workday. Every effort will be made to obtain volunteers for this duty, which will be in lieu of a class period. If no volunteer is available who can be scheduled, the administration may assign a teacher to such duties. No teacher may be involuntarily assigned these duties for more than one consecutive year. Every effort will be made mutually by the Administration and the Association to deal with these duties in a most positive manner. (d) Attendance at 6th grade camp shall be voluntary. 2. Before and/or after school, a grade ECSE-12 teacher shall be attending to his/her teaching duties in his/her building for up to thirty (30) minutes but not to exceed the workday of seven (7) hours and ten (10) minutes. At the beginning of each year, the administration at each level shall determine what portion of the above times will be used before and after school. Teacher input will be encouraged. It is expressly understood that an individual teacher's day may be adjusted to facilitate the administration of the individual building. Early leave may be granted at the discretion of the Administration. 3. The daily preparation period will first be used for such things as thorough preparations, conferences with parents, teachers, and administrators, I.E.P.T.'s, and special assistance to students. 4. Activities involving teachers beyond the scope of the formal teaching day shall be determined cooperatively between a faculty selected committee and the administration at t...

TEACHING HOURS. A. The teachers’ normal teaching hours in the schools shall be as follows: Teachers must be at assigned place of duty at least fifteen (15) minutes before first class begins. After lunch teachers must be at assigned place of duty before class begins. Teachers may leave twenty (20) minutes after the end of the school day. Adjustments, requested by a teacher, to the arrival and departure times may be approved by administration. B. For the duration of this contract, unless mutually agreed upon, noon-hour and playground supervision will be provided by the school district. C. All extracurricular duties will be on a voluntary basis. Extracurricular duties are to be defined as those duties which are associated with activities scheduled for times other than when school is normally in session. 1. Faculty meetings and committee meetings scheduled for times when faculty members would not normally be present are not to exceed more than one (1) hour and fifteen (15) minutes beyond the end of the student day or one (1) hour prior to the beginning of the student day. 2. Attendance at faculty meetings called by the administration will be mandatory provided that notice of such meetings is given forty-eight (48) hours in advance. Employees will not be required to attend more than three (3) meetings monthly nor more than twenty-one (21) meetings in a school year. Meetings called by the administration with parents will be counted as part of this requirement. 3. Parent Teacher Conferences shall be held twice per year. The first one following the first marking period and the second mid-way into the third marking period. 4. Attendance is mandatory for all District scheduled professional development meetings unless excused with the Superintendent’s approval. D. The principal shall apportion non-teaching duties on a fair and equitable basis. Non-teaching duties are to be defined as those duties which are performed during the normal school hours. E. Teachers shall be provided a telephone number they must call or a website they must login to before 6:30 a.m. to report unavailability for work. F. Teachers shall be scheduled for a duty free lunch period. G. Teachers shall be scheduled for prep time each week for a minimum 225 minutes. H. All pupils are entitled to be taught by teachers who are working within their area of expertise. It is understood and agreed that to be qualified a teacher must also meet all applicable standards for a “highly qualified” teacher under the No Child Lef...

TEACHING HOURS. A. Teachers shall be at their assigned classroom within the building as follows: High School: 7:55 a.m. – 3:15 p.m. Middle School: 7:50 a.m. – 3:10 p.m. Elementary: 7:45 a.m. – 3:05 p.m. It is agreed that the above times may be changed, by no more than twenty (20) minutes, by the Board upon prior notice to the Association. All teachers shall have a regular workday which will not exceed seven (7) hours forty-five (45) minutes, inclusive of lunch period. All teachers are responsible for the supervision of pupils during the passing of students between classes. In performing this duty teachers shall be stationed in the hallway area near their classrooms or at their classroom door. It is recognized that circumstances may occasionally require the presence of the teacher elsewhere. On days preceding holidays, teachers are free from duty when buses transporting students to their homes leave the building. Adjustments in the teacher workday, beyond those identified above, may be necessary to comply with requirements of the Revised School Code and/or State Aid Act for additional instructional hours to be provided to students in order to assure full receipt of foundation allowances and other appropriations. Implementation of any adjustments not addressed above shall be subject to negotiation between the Board and the Association at that time. B. Duty free lunch periods will be at least 25 minutes in the secondary schools and will be 45 minutes in the elementary schools. C. Both the Board and the Association desire to encourage innovation and flexibility at the building level while preserving the mutual commitments expressed in their collective bargaining agreement. To that end, if 2/3 of the teachers in a given building and the building Principal desire to introduce restructuring or other changes which would otherwise be prohibited or limited by a contractual provision, the teachers and Principal may respectively make written requests to the Association and Board for an exception to the Master Agreement. It is recognized that any such exception, prior to implementation, is subject to ratification by both the Board and Association. In that event, the exception shall be memorialized in a Memorandum of Agreement which shall be executed between the parties.

TEACHING HOURS. A. The certificated employee’s traditional year work calendar shall consist of one hundred eighty- five (185) work days which will consist of one hundred eighty (180) instructional days and five

TEACHING HOURS. Section 12.1 A full day of elementary student instruction shall be six (6) hours and twenty three (23) minutes. A half-day shall have three (3) hours and thirteen (13) minutes of student instruction. All elementary (K – 5) teachers will have the assigned instructional time daily as provided in their school’s schedule (not to include rotational recess duty). No elementary teacher will be required to be in his/her building more than seven (7) hours and nineteen (19) minutes daily. Time spent in faculty meetings/professional development will be excluded from the time requirement above. Elementary students will have scheduled one fifteen (15) minute recess period before the lunch period and one fifteen (15) minute recess period after the lunch period, or a thirty (30) minute recess before or after lunch. A teacher as an alternative may elect to have scheduled a thirty (30) minute recess before or after lunch for the thirty (30) minute recess period. All teachers with the principal will develop a rotational recess duty schedule that provides for two (2) teachers to supervise all students during recess. The recess duty will be shared equally. Any teacher who does not wish to share in the recess duty schedule will be responsible for supervising his/her own class. Different grade levels will be permitted to have recess at the same time. If, due to inclement weather, the elementary teachers do not have a recess break (not including regular rotational recess duty), the elementary teachers so affected are to be allowed to leave as soon as the buses leave with the pupils. The elementary teachers will be guaranteed a minimum of forty-four (44) minutes daily for a duty- free lunch, except as noted in the next paragraph. By a 2/3 majority vote of the teachers in any elementary school, a schedule for that school consisting of two (2) recesses of 20 minutes each and one lunch period of thirty- six (36) minutes may be instituted for any or all card marking periods. The decision to change will be made prior to the beginning of a card marking so that there is enough time to notify parents. Elementary teachers who are assigned to teach a split level class will be paid one thousand dollars ($1,000) if they are provided a prep.

TEACHING HOURS. A. The teacher's normal teaching hours in the elementary and secondary schools shall be as follows: 1. Teachers shall be at school by 8:10 a.m. each day and may leave at 3:15 p.m. To leave earlier a teacher will secure permission from the principal. 2. In order to insure maximum teaching performance, each teacher shall have a minimum of 210 minutes per week for preparation 3. All teachers shall be assigned a continuous duty-free lunch period at least thirty

TEACHING HOURS. A. Teachers’ Day The teachers’ day shall consist of 7 hours and 30 minutes for elementary school teachers and 7 hours and 15 minutes for secondary school teachers. This includes a duty-free lunch period. While the above provides for the basic teaching day, the Association recognizes that each teacher has a professional responsibility to his/her students and to the District that may require him/her to devote additional time for careful daily preparation, grading papers, attending staff meetings, school functions, meeting with parents in conference, preparing reports and such work relating to his/her function as a teacher. If circumstances require any deviation from the aforementioned times, the Administration and the Association shall mutually agree on the teaching day for the staff involved.

TEACHING HOURS. Teachers when teaching during the school day shall have as a part of their normal hours the following:

TEACHING HOURS. A. The teacher’s work day shall be seven (7) hours. B. Teachers shall be at their assigned place of duty no later than ten (10) minutes before classes begin at all levels. C. Teachers shall be allowed to leave school after students are dismissed and buses have left school property. All teachers will leave open five (5) afternoons or mornings per month (excluding Fridays, the week(s) of parent teacher conferences and days preceding holidays or vacations) for possible mandatory staff, department and/or curriculum meetings. Early release PD’s count as one of the 5 monthly meetings. No more than two (2) meetings per week will be scheduled. These days and times (a.m. or p.m.) will be determined in each individual building. The administration has the flexibility to combine two meetings into one extended block of time not to exceed two hours. These extended meetings may occur up to three (3) times per year with a minimum of a two-week notice. These extended meetings will be tied to the early release PDs. On the weeks that there is a two (2) hour meeting, there will be no other mandatory meetings. A two-hour meeting will count as 2 of the 5 mandatory meetings for that month. *(One two hour is already schedule per calendar for April 5, 2023) D. The Board recognizes the principle of a standard (40) hour work week and will, so far as possible, set work schedules and make professional assignments which can reasonably be completed within such a standard work week. The Board will not require teachers regularly to work in excess of such standard work week within or outside of the school building. E. All teachers shall be entitled to a thirty (30) minute, duty-free uninterrupted lunch period as established in their building. F. No teacher may leave the building during his regular working hours unless he has received approval from his building principal. The teacher shall notify the principal when he leaves the building during the noon hour. G. The regular weekly teaching load in grades K-5 shall include five (5) unassigned preparation periods. Teachers will have an equivalent amount of preparation time, which may or may not be continuous. 1. Under no circumstances is a teacher obligated to give up their preparation time to take on an additional teaching hour. Once the additional teaching hour is agreed upon and the agreement form is signed, the teacher commits to this responsibility for the duration of the school year. However, the district has the ability to retract the ...

TEACHING HOURS. 13.1 The normal length of the employee workday, including a thirty consecutive minute duty-free lunch period and two duty-free ten-minute relief periods, shall be seven and one half hours. For teachers in Special Education Super Classes, the normal length of the employee workday, including a thirty consecutive minute duty-free lunch period and two duty-free ten-minute relief periods, shall be eight and one half hours. The Tulare County Office of Education will make a good-faith effort to provide each classroom teacher with a minimum of thirty (30) duty-free consecutive minutes of preparation time daily. 13.2 The employee's regular workday may include certain non-teaching activities for which, unless specifically provided for, there is no additional compensation. The employee shall attend home visitations, P.T.A., open house, parent conferences, parent advisory meetings, SST or IEP meetings, and field trips requested by the parent, the teacher, or the supervisor beyond the workday at reasonable times and places as agreed to by all parties. A maximum of four (4) minimum days, one each quarter, for the purpose of writing IEPs, and/or conducting IEP conferences, and/or teacher conferences/teacher preparation will be scheduled through the immediate supervisor. This section does not apply to Migrant Resource Coordinators. 13.2.1 Certificated personnel with prior authorization on overnight assignments shall receive, upon request, a stipend of $100.00 per night. This shall include but not be limited to Scicon, Migrant College Study Trips, and field trips as assigned. 13.2.2 Teachers on a high school campus, with prior authorization, who volunteer to supervise students at the Disneyland Grad Night, shall receive, upon request, a stipend of $200.00. 13.2.3 Migrant Resource Coordinators shall have the ability to flex their 7.5 hour workday schedule in order to meet assigned responsibilities. In the event of a split schedule, time and mileage will be calculated from the last site worked. Necessary schedule changes shall be communicated to and approved by the supervisor. 13.2.4 Teachers may be assigned to bus duty as a part of their regular 7.5 hour workday. If a teacher is required to remain on bus duty more than ten minutes beyond their 7.5 hour workday, they shall receive reimbursement at an hourly rate of pay, subject to approval by the employee=s supervisor and appropriate Assistant Superintendent. In the case of the extended school year, if a teacher is required ...