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many steps are required in order to build a schedule where all students are served adequately.
Using an Excel spreadsheet first we preplanned the number of teachers needed, how many
sections, students for each core subject and students per electives. Therefore, the Master
Schedule is a schedule for the entire school to function and without proper planning and
preparation, the Master Schedule may not function as intended by school administration.
The Planning
First, we had to calculate teacher ratio for 5th and 6th grades. Student ratios of 24:1; 26:1;
and 28:1 were determined as adequate teacher to student classroom ratios in the core academic
classroom. Based on these numbers, the number of academic teams were established as 5 teams
for 5th grade and 4 teams for 6th grades. 1 English As Second Language (ESL) and 16 content, 3
teachers for electives, resulting in 20 teachers, teaching 5 th grade students.12 teachers for content
only and 4 teachers teaching content and electives for 6 th graders have been determined by the
student ratio numbers. The Title 1 teacher is on campus frequently, and the Title 1 teacher has the
liberty to fill in classrooms as needed. Planning Periods for each academic team varies based on
the content area. The content areas plan together during the planning period. In addition, adding
dual courses (3) for 5th and (1) for 6th and ESL courses added to scheduling planning periods
Staff Allotments
Staffing at the Intermediate level required much planning and referring to the student
teacher ratio model provided on the Excel Spreadsheet. The model reveals 5th and 6th grade both
needed PAP courses offered in the core subject areas. The core subject area need for PAP classes
listed as follows suggests: 6 PAP Math and Science for 5 th grade, 5 PAP English and Social
Studies for 5th grade, 6 PAP Math and Science for 6 th grade, and 5 PAP English and Social
Studies for 6th grade. The determinant for ESL for 5th and 6th grade indicated the need for 1 ESL
for 5th grade and 2 ESL for 6th grade. The ESL teacher is utilized in 3 classes, one 5 th grade class
and two 6th grade classes. In addition, the ESL teacher teaches a 5 th grade English class. The
regular education courses include students in Resource Math and English Language Arts. The
number of regular core subject courses needed for 5 th grade are 9 classes for Math and Science,
10 Social Studies, and 9 English Language Arts classes. According to the student numbers the
required number of classes for 6th grade is as follows, 8 Math and Science, 9 Social Studies, and
Specialized Areas
Teachers are needed in the special education area. The need included as FALS and
Success Unit on the campus. As a team it was determined that each Special Education teacher
will be responsible for one unit each thus one teacher teaches FALS unit and 1 teacher teaches
Success unit. Planning periods for Inclusion teacher are consistent with the core content grade
level teams. An extra planning time is built in for the Inclusion teachers reserved for planning,
ARD meetings, ARD meeting preparation, or FALS and Success classroom coverage and
support. Paraprofessionals are assumed as built into the school numbers therefore a sufficient
Master Schedule Narrative 4
number of Paraprofessionals are employed and are accounted for in each of the required Special
Education settings. The Master Schedule reflects that 12 classes in resource education are
needed. The 12 classes include four resource English Language Arts, three resource Math for 5 th
grade, three resource English Language Arts, and two resource Math for 6 th grade. Each resource
classroom will teach a maximum of five students per class. Resource teachers maintain three
Electives
With the need for more core classes teachers to reduce class sizes, P.E teachers, Science
Exploratory Teachers and Tech teachers also teach core subjects. In sum P.E. teachers also teach
English or a Social Studies, Tech teachers also teaches math and Science exploratory teachers
also teaches Science assuming that the teachers have the right credentials. In order to allow these
teaches to plan with the content area teachers their planning periods align with the respective
content area planning period. One the other hand the art, band, and music teachers planning
period do not align with any of the core content are teachers since they are only teaching their
own subject. In addition, by doing so the students in the academic team with no content class are
allotted to take elective classes. In doing so the maximum number of students in the core content
area are kept below 29 except for 6th grade dual program where there are 30 students.
Consequently, hiring teachers for the next school year is considered on upcoming school
vacancies and certification requirements. The vacancies will be filled based on the position