Professional Periods Sample Clauses

The 'Professional Periods' clause defines specific timeframes during which professional services are to be performed under the agreement. It typically outlines the start and end dates for each phase of work, and may specify milestones or deadlines that must be met within these periods. By clearly establishing when services are to be delivered, this clause helps ensure that both parties have a mutual understanding of the project timeline and can plan resources accordingly, thereby reducing the risk of delays or misunderstandings.
Professional Periods. 1. During non-teaching, professional periods it is understood that all teachers will make every effort to use this time for professional endeavors. 2. Teachers who leave the school building during professional periods shall notify the Principal's office. However, if unusual circumstances arise, the Principal has the right to request that the teacher not leave the building during said professional period.
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Professional Periods. 1. Teachers in the middle school shall have a maximum of 28 teaching and/or duty periods per week, at least one professional period per day and two team planning periods per week. 2. In the elementary schools, when pupils are scheduled for art, music, library and physical education classes, the classroom teacher may use the special period for planning. The principal may request the teacher to be present under extraordinary circumstances. This provision is contingent upon the availability of substitutes for special teachers, and every effort will be made to hire such substitutes. In the elementary schools, the classroom teachers shall be provided one (1) planning period per day, wherever possible, of which one (1) such period shall be a team planning period. 3. Anticipating the professional cooperation of the staff in effecting this provision, regular teachers shall not be used as substitutes, thereby depriving them of his/her professional periods. 4. In cases where teachers are used as substitutes during his/her professional periods, they shall be paid as follows: 5. In cases where the entire class is divided between two or more teachers, each teacher teaching any part of the split class shall receive the rate per period in Paragraph B. 4 above divided by the number of teachers involved, except that no individual shall receive less than one-third of the per period rate.
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Professional Periods. 1. The professional period shall be used for the following purposes: Consult with: Special education teachers of the teacher's students Guidance Psychological service teachers Review books and materials Committees Update attendance Grade level meetings Faculty meetings Develop educational concepts Meet with parents Prepare daily plans and unit plans Grades, computer updates and interim progress reports Team meetings Write and revise IEPs Research Implement Regents Action Plan Write and revise course curriculum Staff Development 2. The Administration may schedule the specific use of twenty-five (25) professional periods per teacher per year within the list identified in subsection 1 above. No more than one specific assignment may be made in any one week. In the elementary schools, the first faculty meeting of each month shall not be counted towards the 25 “specific use” professional periods set forth above.
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Related to Professional Periods

  • Meal Periods (a) Meal periods shall be scheduled as close as possible to the middle of the scheduled hours of work. The length of the meal period shall be agreed to at the local level and shall be not less than 30 minutes nor more than 60 minutes. (b) An employee shall be entitled to take their meal period away from the workstation. Where this cannot be done, the meal period shall be considered as time worked.

  • Preparation Periods 31-1 The School District agrees to maintain daily preparation periods during the student day in all junior and senior high schools. At schools where block scheduling is in effect, the total preparation time provided shall be equal to the preparation time provided at schools not operating on a block schedule. 31-2 The School District shall maintain at each elementary school a minimum of two hundred and fifty (250) minutes preparation time per week per teacher, during the students’ instructional day, in not less than forty- (40) minute blocks. Each elementary school shall be allocated and assigned library aide hours per school day in accordance with the following schedule: This aide time is provided in addition to the assigned media clerk time. Library aide time is guaranteed for the school year once set on a school year basis. There will be no changes in library aide time allocated due to fluctuation in enrollment. This provision for allocating library aide time will only remain as part of this Agreement if librarians are used to provide preparation time to elementary teachers. 31-3 Preparation time provided for in this Article shall be utilized by teachers in a manner which enables further development and refinement of professional skills and for instructional effectiveness. 31-4 Although it does not relate to any mandatory subject of bargaining, the School District states that it is its aim and objective to establish a maximum class load of thirty (30) students in grades 4, 5, and 6. ▇▇-▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ may direct use of teacher preparation periods if such directed use is infrequent, advance notice is given and the District’s use of the teacher’s preparation period must not consume an entire period.

  • Retention Periods Documentation which serves as evidence of orderly and proper data processing must be retained by ATOSS in accordance with the applicable statutory retention periods beyond the end of the contract. To relieve itself of this obligation, ATOSS may turn said documentation over to the Customer at the end of the contract.

  • Transitional Period At the end of the transitional period as defined in Article 10(2) of the Directive, Jersey shall cease to apply the retention tax and revenue sharing provided for in this Agreement and shall apply in respect of the other contracting party the automatic exchange of information provisions in the same manner as is provided for in Chapter II of the Directive. If during the transitional period Jersey elects to apply the automatic exchange o information provisions in the same manner as is provided for in Chapter II of the Directive, it shall no longe apply the withholding/retention tax and the revenue sharing provided for in Article 9 of this Agreement.

  • Rest and Meal Periods Employees shall be entitled to relief periods during the shift on the basis of fifteen