Program preferences
Each spring (or each term in some high schools) you may request an assignment for the following school year (or term) on a preference sheet that your principal will hand out. (This is the same preference sheet as for professional activities.) You should indicate the subject and grade level you desire in priority order.
If you are a special education teacher, you should place in priority order the age range of special education classes you want, as well as the special education program designation you want to teach. Requests for special teaching positions (cluster positions) or compensatory time positions should be made in a separate application to your principal as they are posted and become available.
If you don’t get your first choice for two consecutive years, you can file a reorganization grievance. Talk to your chapter leader.
Professional activity options
Most secondary school teachers and elementary teachers in eight-period schools are programmed for a professional period, for which they elect a professional activity. (You are required to select a professional activity and to work on it — but you need not spend every minute of your professional period working on it.)
You select your activity from a menu appropriate to your grade level that is specified in Article 7 of our contract. If you want to participate in an activity not listed on the menu, you can do so with the permission of your principal.
Your principal is required to meet with your chapter leader to consult on the number of positions and qualifications for each menu item. If your principal fails to consult, the chapter leader should file an appeal to the chancellor and, if denied, to the city Office of Labor Relations.
If you are assigned homeroom or AM/PM bus duty, you are fulfilling the responsibilities of the professional period; your professional period becomes one for you to use like a preparation period.
Professional activity procedures
If you have a professional period in your teaching program, your principal will give you a preference sheet listing the appropriate menu (this is the same preference sheet for choosing your program). You must prioritize three of the activities and the principal will make the final decision. Selection will be based upon the established criteria for the requested activity and the availability of the item. If you are not given one of your three choices, you may select three other menu items.
If the principal assigns you to an administrative assignment (e.g., lunchroom, hall or yard duty) voluntarily or involuntarily, he or she cannot assign you to any administrative duty the following year unless you voluntarily agree to do it. Principals must make all involuntary administrative assignments on a rotational basis in inverse seniority order. Before the end of the current school year, your principal must notify you in writing as to which professional activity you’ve been assigned for the coming school year.
If you are new to the school system or in danger of receiving a U-rating, the principal can assign you to either professional development or common planning as your professional activity, regardless of your preference.
Text From Section 6A:
Teachers at all levels must select a professional or administrative activity in accordance with this section and the provisions of Article 7U (Professional Activity Assignment Procedures). Except as described in paragraph (d) below, this provision shall not create an additional teaching period, as that term is defined in the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
The menu of activities to be offered to each teacher shall be from among the following:
(1) Small group instruction (not to exceed 10 students)
(2) One to one tutoring
(3) Advise student activities such as clubs, teams or publications
(4) Perform student assessment activities (including portfolios, performance tests, IEPs, ECLAS, etc.)
(5) Professional development/prepare staff development workshops and demonstration lessons
(6) Common planning time
(7) Conflict resolution for students
(8) Cafeteria duty
(9) Schoolyard duty
(10) Hallway duty
(11) AM bus duty
(12) PM bus duty
(13) Homeroom
(14) Provide inter-disciplinary articulation
(15) Develop multi-cultural curriculum
(16) Develop programs to integrate technology into the daily life of the classroom Teachers performing homeroom fulfill the requirement of the professional period.
Teachers selecting AM or PM bus duty will use their professional activity period as a preparation period.
Any teacher who wishes to participate in a professional activity not listed on the above menu may, upon approval of the principal, select such an activity.
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