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. 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 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. For the 2015-17 school year, the teacher's normal teaching hours in the Xxxxxxxxxx Area Public Schools System shall be as follows:
1. Teachers at assigned building no later than 7:45 a.m.
2. Teachers will commence working or be at their work stations by 8:00 a.m.
3. The school day shall end at 3:00 p.m.; however, this time may vary by building to accommodate additional time added to the calendar. Elementary teachers may leave at the end of their teaching day provided students are adequately supervised by teachers during bus departure. For the purposes of this Agreement, three (3) teaching periods shall constitute one-half (1/2) day in the high school as fifty (50%) percent of the teacher's day shall be one-half (1/2) day in the elementary schools.
4. Staff shall meet 90 minutes a month (staff meeting, PLC, 5D, etc.). The administrator will distribute agendas to the teacher no later than one day in advance. Teachers may suggest items for the agenda. Teachers are expected to attend the meeting unless excused in advance by the administrator. Meetings may consist of a department meeting, grade level, building level, or full staff. Reminder: Meetings could be in the morning.
5. When, in the judgment of the Superintendent of Schools, hazardous weather conditions prevent the opening of schools in the District, the school buildings will remain open for use by teachers who can reach them. Notice of closing will be given through radio stations listed in the "Emergency School Closing Administrative Procedures" updated annually and posted in each teacher's workroom. On such days teachers are requested to tune in to the local radio stations. In the event school is closed under the authority of Section 101(3) of the State School Aid of 1984 prior to the start of school, and State Aid is lost for the day, bargaining unit members shall make up such days during remaining vacation days by mutual agreement with the Association or at the end of the school year. If school is called off after employees have reported for work but prior to noon, employees shall be paid a pro-rated amount based on their day's pay rate for the additional hours of work, determined from student dismissal time, if a full day must be made up at a later time. If the State law reverts to its former condition, in accordance with the past practice of the district, bargaining unit members need not report to school or for work on such days and shall not suffer any diminution of pay for such inability to repo...
TEACHING HOURS. 1. Prior to the beginning of the school year, teachers shall meet with the appropriate principal on request and with mutual agreement.
2. The teacher's day will consist of 7 hours and 11 minutes, including lunch, preparation and class time.
3. Teachers shall have a 30 consecutive minute, duty-free lunch period.
4. Teachers shall receive unassigned preparation time as follows:
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. 1. The Xxxxxxxx Charter School certificated employees’ work year shall include one hundred eighty-seven (187) work days, made up of one hundred eighty (180) instructional days and seven
