Teacher Contract - Coventry Public Schools

ARTICLE 7
POLICY MATTERS AT THE SCHOOL LEVEL
7-1. Secondary School Teacher Programs
7-1.1. No later than Friday before the spring vacation, programming preference sheets
shall be distributed to all teachers. Programming preferences will be honored to the extent
consistent with the provisions of this Agreement. All preference sheets shall be returned by May
5. No later than ten (10) days prior to the end of the school year, teachers shall be given the
following tentative information on their programs for the next school year: subject and grades of
subject to be taught; and any special information about particular classes teachers may be
required to teach, and, the grade and particular type of homeroom/advisory.
7-1.2. No later than three (3) school days before the end of the school year, all teachers
shall receive their tentative total program for the following year, which shall include the periods
and rooms where their assignments are scheduled.
7-1.3. Regular Assigned Periods
7-1.3.1 Middle/Secondary school teachers shall have no more than 25 periods per week.
7-1.3.2. In the event that teachers, whether at the request of the Administration or of their
own initiative, wish to experiment with alternate modes of instruction, and there is joint
agreement between two-thirds (2/3) or more of the classroom teachers affected and the
Administration, then no teacher shall have an assigned schedule for more than 75% of the total
school day (or its equivalent) as defined in Section 4-6.2. And no teacher can be assigned to
more than 125 students per marking period (except Physical Education teachers who may be
assigned up to 135 students). Teachers in the middle/secondary schools may be assigned study
hall/ corridor duty supervision, if said teachers have less than 25 teaching periods, but total
teaching periods combined with study hall/corridor duty supervision shall not exceed 25.
7-1.4. In a situation of choice between 2 or more teachers, the teacher with the highest
seniority shall be given preference, if the teacher’s certification for the program and written
evaluation are the same, except as otherwise provided for in Section 6-2.5.
7-1.5. Teacher Program Guidelines
7-1.5.1. Insofar as possible teachers shall be programmed so as to have a
maximum of two lesson preparations. Program requests of teachers shall be taken into
consideration. This policy shall be followed especially for beginning teachers and teachers
having classes with maximum teaching loads.
7-1.5.2. The number of different rooms in which assignments occur shall not
exceed two (2) within the limitations of scheduling.
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