Procedures

Procedures:
Pre-school

Elementary

Middle School

High School:

**Pre-Arrival**
//What to do BEFORE they get to Honduras?// //What to do the FIRST WEEK in Honduras?// Send an itinerary of what the school has planned for them for that first week of induction as well as the week after that when all teachers return.
 * 1) Once hired, new teachers should be e-mailed the curriculum of the class they will teach, an approximate schedule, the latest "handouts", and the e-mails of their Department heads and co-teachers
 * 2) A month before school start, allow teachers to access astsecondary wiki
 * 3) Send informative bulletins of Tegucigalpa
 * 4) Realtors and available apartments
 * 5) Car lots and possible prices

Submitting Grades/Number of Grades/Frequency of Grading/Grading Categories/Citizenship vs. Comments
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**Missing School for Sick Days, Personal Days, and Religious Day**s
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Open House
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Parent-Teacher Conference Day
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Monthly Meetings
High School: There is a rotating schedule of established meetings that occur on Wednesdays. Sometimes the dates shift around a little because of the way days fall in the month, but they should always occur in this order. 1st --Faculty meeting 2nd --Department Head meeting 3rd --Department meeting 4th--Used only for special, supplementary meetings, TBA

**Saturday Obligations**
In the past, teachers have been asked to work on Saturdays from time to time, for a variety of reasons. During the 2009-2010 school year, for example, teachers were asked to work one Saturday where they taught a day of school on an early dismissal schedule to make up for missed school days in the beginning of the year. They were also required to attend two, 4 hour, Red Cross First Aid training on two separate Saturdays in January.

In addition, High school and middle school teachers are required to sign up for one Saturday detention duty per year, which means they come to school from 8am to 1pm to supervise students in the detention. Teachers are also encouraged to attend sporting events such as final rounds of sports tournaments held at the school on Friday evenings and/or Saturday mornings. Family Day is a major school event that occurs on a Saturday. Teachers are not required to attend, per se, but attendance is smiled upon.

Every year is different, and Saturday obligations may change, but overall, it is a possibility that you will be asked to or required to work on one or more Saturdays during any given school year.

**Evening Events**
Some events that occur in the evening every year include: PTO Bingo, Fall Festival, Christmas Concert, Spring Concert, IB Art opening, Empty Bowls, sporting events, final rounds of sports tournaments we host some years (such as ABSH and AASCA volleyball or basketball).

Teachers are not required to attend these events, unless they are class advisors or they are involved in the planning of the event in some other way, but again, attendance is smiled upon.

Assemblies and Activities
(organize by months) Presidents' Day--softball game Thanksgiving--football game Fiesta Catracha