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DLD

PLANNING PERIODS

 

 

All instructors, excluding vocational staff cooperating with the State Depart­ment of Career and Technology Education, shall  be provided planning time each week as required by the State Accreditation Standards within the student school day for preparation.  Elementary and middle school teachers with 200 minutes will be provided 200 minutes for plan­ning each week.  Secondary teachers are to be provided 225 minutes for planning each week.  The preparation period may be used for the fol­lowing duties:  personal instructional preparation; planning, selecting, and pre­paring materials for instruction; confer­ring with parents, staff, and administrators; keeping school records; supervising aides (if assigned); grading student papers and recording student grades; and study of current literature to keep abreast of developments within the subject matter taught by the teacher.  The preparation period shall be utilized within the building of major assignment and for the purposes indi­cated.  Teachers shall leave the school premises only to carry out functions relating to the above duties when written permission to do so has been obtained from the building principal.