TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. Teachers will be at their assigned places of duty not later than 8:00 a.m. Teachers may leave the building at 3:20 p.m., except on Fridays and on the day before holidays, when the teacher workday will terminate at the conclusion of the instructional day.
B. Secondary teachers shall not be assigned more than six of the seven periods; the seventh period being an unassigned preparation period. A secondary teacher who teaches during their seventh period and this assignment has been mutually agreed upon by the teacher and Board of Education shall receive $1,000 per marking period (quarter). This will not include any extra duty assignment included in Appendix B-1 or B-2.
C. Teachers may mutually agree to substitute for each other. Substituting shall be voluntary and no teacher shall be required to substitute for another teacher. Teachers asked by the administration to substitute teach during a preparation period shall receive one (1) hour of compensatory time to be used at the teacher’s discretion, or a payment at the rate of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each hour of substitution. Teachers are required to provide the administration with a minimum of 48 hours notice when the personal leave is going to be used for sports or school improvement purposes. Earned compensation time must be used by the end of the current school year. Any unused compensation time will be converted to a payment at the rate of $20 for each hour of substitution.
D. On late start days teachers will be at their assigned place of duty 10 minutes before the start of the first class and the teachers work day shall terminate at the conclusion of the instructional day.
E. In the elementary school, when students are assigned to a class under the direction of another teacher (e.g. music and physical education), this will be a preparation period for the regular classroom teacher. Every effort will be made in scheduling to assure that all elementary teachers receive equal preparation time. On days when school is dismissed early because of inclement weather, teachers may leave 15 minutes after the students are dismissed. Employees who volunteer to do lunch time supervision will supervise for the last 15 minutes of each lunch period. Each four days of supervision will result in one class period of compensatory time. After seven periods of accumulated compensatory time (28 days of lunch supervision), the employee will earn one compensatory day. The day(s) earned in this way may be taken without restric...
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. All teachers in the system will be required to report at 8:00 a.m. and the teacher day shall end at 3:36 p.m., unless adjusted start and stop times are agreed upon between teacher, union and administrator. Teachers are encouraged to remain for a sufficient period of time after the close of the pupils' school day to attend to those matters that require attention except that on Fridays or days preceding holidays or vacations, the teacher's day shall end at the same time as dismissal of the high school and middle school. The Board and the Association agree that closing limitation in this paragraph will be waived in order to accommodate regular faculty meetings or other functions which are necessary to the operation of the system. At the building principal’s discretion, regular monthly faculty meetings will be scheduled either two times per month with each being a maximum of thirty (30) minutes in duration, or once per month at a maximum duration of sixty (60) minutes. Additional meetings may be called by mutual agreement of the District and the Association. When stormy weather necessitates an early dismissal, teachers will remain an additional thirty (30) minutes unless sooner released by the building principal.
B. It is agreed between the Association and the Board that the pupil-teacher contact will be limited to twenty-six hours of clock hours per week, or periods when applicable at the secondary level, throughout the system. In the middle and senior high school, provision will be made for ten preparation periods per week, and an equivalent amount of preparation will be provided at the elementary level except as recess supervision may alter the situation as outlined in Paragraph D.
C. All teachers shall be entitled to a duty-free thirty minute lunch period preceded and followed by a passing time.
D. Elementary teachers will have thirty minutes of recess per day. Teachers shall share recess time duties which will allow for relief and preparation periods for teachers when they are not on recess duty assignment. Recess schedules will be made by building principals. Elementary teachers may use for preparation all time during which their classes are receiving instruction from various teaching specialists, unless a carry over is necessary. An elementary teacher shall be paid for recess/quiet room/teaching assignment duty at their hourly rate if the recess/quiet room/teaching assignment makes their pupil/teacher contact more than 26 clock hours per week.
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TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. The length of the teacher work day in the primary and intermediate buildings will be 6 hours 55 minutes, and the length of the teacher work day in the junior high building will be 7 hours 8 minutes. It is understood that 25 minutes of this time is teacher preparation time of which 15 minutes shall occur at the beginning of the student school day and 10 minutes shall occur at the end of the student school day. It is understood that the 5 minutes immediately preceding the student school day may be principal directed preparation time. In the primary and intermediate buildings, the student school day will be 6 hours 30 minutes, and in the junior high buildings the student school day will be 6 hours 43 minutes. There are certain exceptions to this, which are:
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. Teachers will be at their assigned places of duty not later than 8:00 a.m. Teachers may leave the building at 3:20 p.m., except on Fridays and on the day before holidays, when the teacher workday will terminate at the conclusion of the instructional day.
B. Secondary teachers shall not be assigned more than six of the seven periods; the seventh period being an unassigned preparation period. A secondary teacher who teaches during their seventh period and this assignment has been mutually agreed upon by the teacher and Board of Education shall receive $1,000 per marking period (quarter). This will not include any extra duty assignment included in Appendix B-1 or B-2.
C. Teachers may mutually agree to substitute for each other. Substituting shall be voluntary and no teacher shall be required to substitute for another teacher. Teachers asked by the administration to substitute teach during a preparation period shall receive one (1) hour of compensatory time to be used at the teacher’s discretion, or a payment at the rate of twenty dollars ($20.00) for each hour of substitution. Teachers are required to provide the administration with a minimum of 48 hours notice when the personal leave is going to be used for sports or school improvement purposes.
D. On late start days teachers will be at their assigned place of duty 10 minutes before the start of the first class and the teachers work day shall terminate at the conclusion of the instructional day.
E. In the elementary school, when students are assigned to a class under the direction of another teacher (e.g. music and physical education), this will be a preparation period for the regular classroom teacher. Every effort will be made in scheduling to assure that all elementary teachers receive equal preparation time. On days when school is dismissed early because of inclement weather, teachers may leave 15 minutes after the students are dismissed. Employees who volunteer to do lunch time supervision will supervise for the last 15 minutes of each lunch period. Each four days of supervision will result in one class period of compensatory time. After seven periods of accumulated compensatory time (28 days of lunch supervision), the employee will earn one compensatory day. The day(s) earned in this way may be taken without restriction. These positions will be posted in accordance with Article X. Employees may choose compensation at the rate of $13.00 per hour.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. It is the responsibility of each individual teacher, as well as the Board, to provide the highest quality educational program practicable for every boy and girl in the school district. To this end, the teacher should maintain practices inherent in his profession such as: (1) carefully written daily preparation; (2) attendance at staff meetings and (3) encouraged participation in activities of the school and community. R-18
B. The school year shall include one (1) pre-service, professional development, and one-half (½) post- service days as determined by the negotiated calendar and three (3) additional evening events to include (i.e, open houses, orientations, graduations, and student celebrations) outside the negotiated calendar as determined by the building principal. The three (3) additional evening events will be determined and shared on building calendars at the start of each school year. R-18
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. This provision shall only apply to instruction during the regular school day and after-school activities. This provision does not apply to parent academy or other community programs.
B. 1. A normal teaching load is five full period assignments, at least one uninterrupted, unassigned preparation period during periods one through six (or, if agreeable with the teacher, one equivalent preparation period), which shall be called “planning period”, and a remaining unassigned period during the teacher’s school day, which shall be called “remaining unassigned period.” All staff members will perform a supervisory duty only one-half (1/2) period per week during their planning period. Supervision assignments will reflect the traditional locations and duties currently in effect within each building, i.e. hallway, cafeteria, attendance office. Other supervision assignments will not be made without the prior mutual consent of the Faculty Association and Administration. The teacher's school day shall be seven (7) consecutive periods. The teacher day shall be seven (7) hours, thirty (30) minutes.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The teachers normal workday shall be from 7:30 a.m. until 2:45 p.m. However, no more than two days each month, the teachers’ normal workday shall be from 7:15 a.m. until 2:45 p.m., in order to have staff meetings in each building and give the Association an opportunity to meet, if needed. The listed hours shall be inclusive of a thirty-five (35) minute duty-free lunch period. Except in cases of emergency or unusual circumstances, no teacher shall be required to supervise students more than ten (10) minutes before the start of the student school day nor work more than fifteen (15) minutes beyond the close of the student day. The foregoing, however, shall not apply to extracurricular duties or parent conferences. No teacher shall be required to serve on any committee which meets beyond the normal workday as described above.
B. During a full week of normal school days, each teacher shall be allocated no less than two hundred twenty-five (225) minutes of preparation time, exclusive of duty-free lunch periods, within regularly scheduled student attendance periods. Additionally, each teacher shall be allocated at least one hundred fifty (150) minutes of professional learning community collaboration time with colleagues each week. All other non-scheduled time as may exist during the prescribed teacher work day, within or outside the standard student attendance day, said amount of time to not be less than one hundred (100) minutes per week, shall be allocated to and utilized for planning and/or developmental activities, student individual or group tutorial sessions, and parent-teacher conferences.
C. Social workers, guidance counselors, psychologists, and school nurses shall work one hundred ninety (190) days during each school year, which normally shall include working the week prior to the first teacher workday of the school year and the week after the last teacher workday of the school year, or some variation thereof as determined by the administration in consultation with the staff. Additionally, social workers, guidance counselors, psychologists, and school nurses may be required to work evenings and weekends as needed in crisis situations.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A. The regularly scheduled arrival and dismissal times for teachers of the Trenton Public Schools shall be as follows: Teachers Instruction Students Teachers Elementary 8:15 a.m. 8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m. 4:00 p.m. Middle School 7:55 a.m. 8:10 a.m. 3:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m. High School 7:15 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 2:30 p.m. 3:00 p.m.
B. The regular hours of work for audiologists, social workers, and psychologists shall begin at the teacher arrival time for the school to which they are assigned to start the day and shall end 8 hours after the arrival time (with a 30-minute unpaid lunch period), unless a deviation is approved by the employee’s supervisor.
C. All teachers shall be provided a duty-free uninterrupted lunch period in no event less than thirty (30) minutes.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. 1. The teacher's school day shall include twenty-five (25) minutes before class starts and ten (10) minutes after class dismissal so they are available for consultation with students, parents, and administration. On the last day of the school week or such days that precede a holiday, teachers may leave the building five (5) minutes after dismissal of their students.
TEACHING HOURS AND ASSIGNMENTS. A.1. The Teacher day (except for co-curricular activities) shall not exceed seven and one-half (7 ½) hours. The usual starting time for Teachers will be no earlier than 8:00 A.M. (Xxxxx), 8:15 A.M. (Centennial), and 7:45 A.M. (Northlawn). Teachers shall have a duty-free uninterrupted lunch period no shorter than stipulated by the School Code.
