Teacher Contract Language - Online

[Nash, Kelsey]

Good morning, KIC-

We are looking into potential contract language for our online teachers.

We're curious if other districts have contract language around online courses and/or how online teachers are selected? 

If anyone else is interested in this info, I'm happy to put together a spreadsheet.

Thanks so much!

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Kelsey Nash

Coordinator of Innovation and Technology

South Washington County Schools

Zoom Room- https://sowashco-org.zoom.us/j/4921307105

952-406-0044 (c)

www.sowashco.org

ISD 833: An east metro school district serving all of parts of the communities of Cottage Grove, Newport, St. Paul Park and Woodbury and Afton, Denmark and Grey Cloud Island Townships, Minnesota.

 

[James Stock]

I have been an online teacher for 12 years. We tent to keep the same contract language for regular teacher except we have had 3 recurring problems:

1. Flexible work time. We have an official duty day but online is so asynchronous and there is so much student contact late and night and weekends. We seem to get the most work and the most dedication from our online teachers when we provide “flexibility” around the “official duty day”
2. BIGGEST PROBLEM AND HAS BEEN FOR EVER!!!!!: What counts as a teacher prep, and class size. I teach every quarter of every high school science every quarter of every year. I have students in 20 different online courses every quarter I have the courses built by the beginning of the school year so I need to have everything ready by the first day of school then I grade and communicate with students the rest of the year. The contant problem with this is that do I only teach a regular course load because I am capped at what a classroom teacher with a 5 full classes. Do I teach 20 different preps since I have students in 20 different classes. Do I have 5 preps since I am teaching biology, chemistry, earth science, physics and physical science, or do I have 1 prep since I have the course work built by the end of august for the year. Some of those classes only have 2 students and some have 25, does that matter? The key language we have been looking for in the contract is actual teaching load language, we ask and we have not gotten that in our contract for like 7 contracts.
3. Workshop week in fall before school. We need more work time than classroom teachers since they build as they go and we need to have every lesson in every class ready to go by the first day of school.

 

Hope this is not too much information.

 

 

 

James Stock 

james...@mpls.k12.mn.us

Science Teacher

(612)405-8446

Minneapolis Public Schools

MPS Online

Minneapolis Academy & Career Center

1250 West Broadway, Minneapolis 55411

 

 

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