MTA Meeting:
You are not required to be a Site Representative to attend a meeting.
Teachers can challenge an unwanted assignment by submitting a written request to their supervisor within three working days. Assignments, including specific subject, grade, and class, are made in accordance with collective bargaining agreements or local policies. Staff participation is encouraged in planning assignments. A previous method of promoting participation was distributing memos requesting employees’ choice of assignments.
Should you wish to object to your assignment, submit a written request to your supervisor within three (3) working days of receipt of your assignment. The supervisor will then provide a written explanation within three (3) working days. The correspondence would best be emailed with a carbon copy (CC) sent to mta-cta@comcast.net
Assignments, as referred to in this policy, are defined as specific subject, grade, and class. Teachers may be assigned to any school within the district in accordance with the collective bargaining agreement or [Modesto City Schools BP4113].
The Superintendent or designee shall assign teachers based on the grade level and subject matter authorized by their credentials.
The junior and senior high school site administrators shall provide an opportunity for staff involvement in planning teaching assignments.
The TK-6 site administrators shall provide an opportunity to involve teaching staff in developing class lists. Prior to the end of the school year, effort is to be made to provide assignment of continuing elementary students to teachers for the next year.
The local site administrator is responsible for class lists and teaching assignments within a building. It is the District’s intention to obtain meaningful participation and involvement of staff in the fulfillment of this responsibility.
Past practice has been to send a memo with teaching assignments based upon initial projected staffing needs for the next school year. At the elementary level, a memo may request you to indicate your 1st, 2nd, and 3rd choice of the grade level assignment for the next year. Similarly, grades 7-12 submit three (3) class preferences within a discipline.
No adverse action shall be taken against an employee who files a notice of misassignment {EC 44258.9}.
No. The process of discussing or collecting trend data from one or more teachers, such as walk-throughs, is not considered to be evaluative (Article II.E).
Moreover, final evaluation comments must relate to administrative observations and/or written communications to individual employees during the formal observation period. Informal observations shall not count towards a certificated employee’s evaluation (Article VIII.C.3).
Unfortunately, the practice of walkthroughs has become corrupted in many ways by confounding it with supervision and evaluation of teachers.
Robert J. Marzano, Setting the Record Straight; 2009
“Principals are being urged to devote more time to being instructional leaders by observing teachers in classrooms so they can supervise and evaluate teachers into better instructional practices. There is, however, overwhelming evidence that this strategy has little impact on either teacher practice or student achievement” (DuFour, Rich, and Robert Eaker, 2016, p. 146-147)
A three year study of more than one hundred principals concludes, “We find no relationship between [a principal’s] overall time spent on instructional activities and either school effectiveness or improvement” (Grissom, Loeb, & Master, 2013, p.15).
No bargaining unit member can evaluate another bargaining unit member, or direct other bargaining unit members to change their teaching method or implementation of the curriculum (Article II.E).
The Superintendent or designee shall assess the performance of certificated instructional staff as it reasonably relates to the following criteria: {EC 44662}
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