Common use of Increment Credit Clause in Contracts

Increment Credit. (a) For initial placement: (1) full increment credit will be granted for approved exchange teaching and appropriately certified full time teaching experience acquired while employed in a public school system as defined in the appropriate legislation in Canada, the Commonwealth, and the United States, in any Canadian, Commonwealth or United States faculty of education or federal, provincial, or state ministry of education, in private schools in Canada which receive public funding under legislation similar to the Independent Schools Support Act of British Columbia. (2) one increment will be recognized for every ten (10) F.T.E. school months of teaching experience in schools described in (a)(1). (3) the Society may recognize experience in addition to the teaching experience provided for in (a)(1) for the granting of increments. (b) After initial appointment to the School, an increment shall be granted for each ten (10) F.T.E. school months of teaching at the School. (c) The anniversary date on which an increment for teaching experience will be credited for all teachers is the first day of September.