Assistants. 19.1.1 Assistants for purposes of this section mean instructional assistants, teacher assistants, clerical assistants and volunteer assistants. 19.1.1.1 Teachers shall be involved in the initial employment or selection of assistants assigned to his/her classroom. 19.1.1.2 An assistant shall perform only such duties as, in the judgment of the certificated personnel to whom the assistant is assigned, may be performed by a person not licensed as a classroom teacher. These duties shall not include assignment of grades to pupils. An assistant need not perform such duties in the physical presence of the teacher, but the teacher shall retain his/her responsibility for the instruction and supervision of the pupils in his/her charge. In no case will a teacher be required to supervise assistants in more than one (1) additional classroom other than his/her own. 19.1.1.3 The District shall supply all pertinent background data upon request (e.g., interests, talents, education) of an instructional assistant, teacher assistant or voluntary assistant to the teacher who is being asked to supervise such assistant. 19.1.1.4 A teacher shall be consulted in the evaluation of an assistant who is assigned to his/her classroom. 19.1.1.5 A supervising teacher shall not be required to perform additional assignments outside the classroom while he/she is supervising an assistant, except in 19.1.1.2 above. 19.1.2 Nothing contained in this Article shall prevent the Board from hiring non-bargaining unit personnel to perform the following non-teacher duties: Lunch supervision, ground duty, collection of student monies, mail distribution, bus duty, maintaining student attendance records. 19.1.3 An effort will be made to secure a replacement for an assistant who is absent.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement, Collective Bargaining Agreement
