Consulting Teacher. The Employer may use a “consulting teacher” to help formulate a remediation plan and to give advice to the employee under remediation. The Mattoon Education Association may, if it so chooses, supply a roster of qualified employees from whom the consulting teacher is to be selected. The consulting teacher must have at least five (5) years teaching experience, must have a reasonable familiarity with the assignment of the teacher being evaluated, and must have received an “excellent” rating on his most recent evaluation. The Employer will notify the employee in writing of his selection as consulting teacher. It will state in the notice that acceptance is voluntary. The Employer will not compel any employee, who is otherwise qualified, to participate in a remediation program as a consulting teacher. In the event that no employee is qualified, or no employee volunteers to be a consulting teacher, the Employer will request that the Regional Office of Education supply an individual who meets the criteria, or will choose a qualified employee from another Illinois school district. A Mattoon Community Unit #2 consulting teacher will assist in his remediation responsibilities during the time when he is not scheduled to teach and will receive compensation at the hourly rate specified in Article 7. The consulting teacher will develop with the remediating teacher a consultation schedule which beyond forty (40) hours must be approved by the Superintendent. With respect to a teacher that has been rated “unsatisfactory,” the consulting teacher will make no evaluation in any circumstance. No statements by the consulting teacher about any aspect of the remediating teacher, either personal or related to the behavior under remediation, will be used in any evaluation, conversations, hearings, or records. It is the intention of the parties that any statements made by the consulting teacher to or about the remediating teacher are confidential between those two individuals and are not to be used by any other person for any reason. The Employer shall provide for the consulting teacher the same liability insurance protection as is provided for the school district administrators. If, after thirty (30) days of working with the consulting teacher, the remediating teacher determines that the consulting teacher is not helping him or her remediate, he or she may request another consulting teacher from the pool of consulting teachers by a written request to the participating principal.
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Samples: Professional Services, Professional Services
Consulting Teacher. The Employer may use a “consulting teacher” to help formulate a remediation plan and to give advice to the employee under remediation. The Mattoon Education Association may, if it so chooses, supply a roster of A. A qualified employees from whom the consulting teacher is to shall be selected. The consulting teacher must have at least one who has received a rating of "excellent" on his/her most recent evaluation, has a minimum of five (5) years teaching experience, must have and has a reasonable familiarity with the assignment of the teacher being evaluated. The consulting teacher shall work with the teacher under remediation on how to improve teaching skills and successfully complete the remediation plan.
B. Participation as a consulting teacher shall be voluntary. Where no teachers who meet the criteria set forth above are available within the district, the Board shall request, and must have received an “excellent” rating on his most recent evaluation. The Employer will notify the employee in writing State Board of his selection as consulting teacher. It will state in the notice that acceptance is voluntary. The Employer will not compel any employee, who is otherwise qualifiedEducation supply, to participate in a the remediation program as a consulting teacher. In the event that no employee is qualifiedprocess, or no employee volunteers to be a consulting teacher, the Employer will request that the Regional Office of Education supply an individual who meets the criteria, or will choose criteria for a qualified employee from another Illinois school districtconsulting teacher. A consulting teacher shall be assigned to work with, at most, one teacher under remediation.
A Mattoon Community Unit #2 C. The Superintendent or designee shall compile a list of all teachers qualified to act as a consulting teacher will assist in his remediation responsibilities during and shall provide it to the time when he is not scheduled to teach and will receive compensation at the hourly rate specified in Article 7Association President. The consulting teacher will develop with Association President shall select at least five (5) qualified teachers from the remediating teacher a consultation schedule which beyond forty (40) hours must be approved by the Superintendent. With respect to a teacher that has been rated “unsatisfactory,” the consulting teacher will make no evaluation in any circumstance. No statements by the consulting teacher about any aspect of the remediating teacher, either personal or related to the behavior under remediation, will be used in any evaluation, conversations, hearings, or records. It is the intention of the parties that any statements made by the consulting teacher to or about the remediating teacher are confidential between those two individuals and are not to be used by any other person for any reason. The Employer shall provide for the consulting teacher the same liability insurance protection as is provided for the school district administrators. If, after thirty (30) days of working with the consulting teacher, the remediating teacher determines that list from whom the consulting teacher is not helping him to be selected, or her remediate, he or she may request another the names of all teachers so qualified if the number is less than five. If a consulting teacher from becomes unavailable during the pool course of a remediation plan, a new consulting teachers by a written request teacher shall be selected in the same manner as the initial consulting teacher. The remediation plan may be amended as necessary upon consultation with the new consulting teacher.
D. The consulting teacher shall not participate in any of the required evaluations nor be engaged to evaluate formally the performance of the teacher under remediation. However, to continue to provide assistance to the participating principalteacher under remediation, the consulting teacher shall be apprised of the results of the midpoint and final evaluations through conferences with the qualified administrator and the teacher under remediation following each evaluation.
E. Each consulting teacher involved in a remediation plan shall be afforded sufficient released time to work towards the successful completion of said plan and to fulfill all other assigned teaching duties and obligations. Such released time shall include time for meetings, training, observations, planning and/or travel as requested by the district during the consulting teacher's participation in a remediation plan.
F. The Board shall indemnify and protect any teacher assigned as a consulting teacher against civil rights damage claims and suits, constitutional rights damage claims and suits, and death and bodily injury and property damage claims, including defense thereof, whenever damages are sought for negligence or wrongful acts alleged to have been committed in the consulting teacher's scope of employment or under the direction of the Board.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Consulting Teacher. a. The Employer may use a “consulting teacher” to help formulate a remediation plan and to give advice to the employee under remediation. The Mattoon Education Association may, if it so chooses, Union shall supply a roster of qualified employees Teachers from whom the consulting teacher Teacher is to be selected. The list shall be provided within ten (10) working days of written notification to the Union for a consulting teacher must have at least five (5) years teaching experience, must have a reasonable familiarity with the assignment of the teacher being evaluatedTeacher.
b. The consulting Teacher so chosen shall be notified in writing, and must have received an “excellent” rating on his most recent evaluation. The Employer will notify the employee in writing of his selection as consulting teacher. It will such written notice shall specifically state in the notice that acceptance is voluntary. The Employer will not compel any employee.
c. Where no consulting Teacher is available in the district, who is otherwise qualified, the district shall request the State Board of Education to participate in a remediation program as provide a consulting teacher. In the event that no employee is qualifiedThe State Board of Education shall, or no employee volunteers to be thereupon, provide a consulting teacher, the Employer will request that the Regional Office of Education supply an individual teacher who meets the criteria, or will choose a qualified employee from another Illinois school district.
A Mattoon Community Unit #2 consulting teacher will assist requirements as listed in his remediation responsibilities during the time when he is not scheduled to teach and will receive compensation at the hourly rate specified in Article 7this document. The consulting teacher will develop Teacher shall be governed by all relative parts of the bargaining agreement.
d. The consulting Teacher shall provide advice to the Teacher, rated as unsatisfactory, on how to improve teaching skills and successfully to complete the remediation plan.
e. The consulting Teacher shall be informed through conferencing with the remediating qualified Administrator and the Teacher under remediation of the results of each evaluation during the remediation process, in order to provide assistance to the teacher under a consultation schedule which beyond forty (40) hours must be approved by the Superintendent. With respect to a teacher that has been rated “unsatisfactory,” Remediation Plan.
f. If the consulting teacher Teacher becomes unavailable during the course of a remediation plan, a new consulting Teacher shall be selected in the same manner as the initial consulting Teacher. The remediation plan shall be amended as necessary upon consultation with the new consulting Teacher.
g. Consulting Teachers will make no evaluation in any circumstance. No statements by receive a stipend and/or released time, which shall be agreed upon among the consulting Teacher, the Union, and the Administrator.
h. The consulting teacher about any aspect of shall not participate in the remediating teacher, either personal or related to the behavior under remediation, will be used in any evaluation, conversations, hearings, or recordsformal evaluation process. It is the intention of the parties that any Any evaluative statements made by the consulting teacher Teacher related to or about the remediating teacher are remediation of a Teacher will be considered confidential between those two individuals and are may not to be used by either the Board of Education (or their agent(s)) or the Teacher under remediation in any other person for any reason. The Employer subsequent evaluations, conversations, hearing, etc.
i. As provided by law, a consulting Teacher shall provide for be indemnified and protected from suits arising from civil rights damage claims, constitutional damage claims, and the consulting teacher the same liability insurance protection as is provided for the school district administrators. If, after thirty (30) days of working with the consulting teacher, the remediating teacher determines that the consulting teacher is not helping him or her remediate, he or she may request another consulting teacher from the pool of consulting teachers by a written request to the participating principallike.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
Consulting Teacher. The Employer may use a “consulting teacher” to help formulate a remediation plan and to give advice to the employee under remediation. The Mattoon Education Association may, if it so chooses, supply a roster of qualified employees from whom the consulting teacher is to be selected. The consulting teacher must have at least five (5) years teaching experience, must have a reasonable familiarity with the assignment of the teacher being evaluated, and must have received an “excellent” rating on his the Employee’s most recent evaluation. The Employer will notify the employee in writing of his the Employee’s selection as consulting teacher. It will state in the notice that acceptance is voluntary. The Employer will not compel any employee, who is otherwise qualified, to participate in a remediation program as a consulting teacher. In the event that no employee is qualified, or no employee volunteers to be a consulting teacher, the Employer will request that the Regional Office of Education supply an individual who meets the criteria, or will choose a qualified employee from another Illinois school district.
. A Mattoon Community Unit #2 consulting teacher will assist in his the Employee’s remediation responsibilities during the time when he the consulting teacher is not scheduled to teach and will receive compensation at the hourly rate specified in Article 7. The consulting teacher will develop with the remediating teacher a consultation schedule which beyond forty (40) hours must be approved by the Superintendent. With respect to a teacher that has been rated “unsatisfactory,” the consulting teacher will make no evaluation in any circumstance. No statements by the consulting teacher about any aspect of the remediating teacher, either personal or related to the behavior under remediation, will be used in any evaluation, conversations, hearings, or records. It is the intention of the parties that any statements made by the consulting teacher to or about the remediating teacher are confidential between those two individuals and are not to be used by any other person for any reason. The Employer shall provide for the consulting teacher the same liability insurance protection as is provided for the school district administrators. If, after thirty (30) days of working with the consulting teacher, the remediating teacher determines that the consulting teacher is not helping him or her the Employee remediate, he or she the Employee may request another consulting teacher from the pool of consulting teachers by a written request to the participating principal.
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Samples: Professional Services
Consulting Teacher. The Employer may use a A “consulting teacherconsulting” teacher will be selected by the observer to help formulate the educator throughout the remediation plan. The observer shall select a qualified consulting teacher from a list of five (5) qualified educators per building submitted by the Association. If no educators are available within the district who meet these criteria to participate in the remediation process, the district shall request and secure, through the assistance of the applicable regional office of education, an individual who meets these criteria.
A. The consulting teacher shall have received a summative rating of Excellent on his/her most recent evaluation and have a minimum of five years of experience in teaching. In addition, the consulting teacher shall have familiarity with the teaching assignment.
B. The participation of the consulting teacher shall be voluntary.
C. The consulting teacher shall participate, as soon as possible, in the development of the remediation plan and to give shall provide advice to the employee educator on how to complete the remediation plan.
D. The consulting teacher shall not participate in any of the evaluations nor be asked to evaluate the performance of the educator under remediation. The Mattoon Education Association mayconsulting teacher shall not be compelled by either the district or the educator under remediation to testify or make other statements in any hearing. The final decision on any evaluation shall be solely that of the participating observer.
E. The consulting teacher shall be informed, if it so choosesthrough all evaluation conferences with the evaluator and the educator, supply a roster of qualified employees from whom the results of the evaluations in order to continue to provide assistance to the educator.
F. If the consulting teacher is to becomes unavailable during the course of a remediation plan, a new consulting teacher shall be selectedselected in the same manner as the initial consulting teacher. The remediation plan shall be amended as necessary upon consultation with the new consulting teacher, the observer, and the educator under remediation.
G. The consulting teacher must have at least five (5) years teaching experience, must have a reasonable familiarity will be provided release time to work with the assignment educator under remediation. The principal, or designee, will provide this released time, when considered necessary by the consulting teacher, and will make an attempt to arrange schedules of the teacher being evaluated, and must have received an “excellent” rating on his most recent evaluation. The Employer will notify the employee in writing of his selection two educators so as consulting teacher. It will state in the notice that acceptance is voluntary. The Employer will not compel any employee, who is otherwise qualified, to participate in a remediation program as a consulting teacher. provide common release time.
H. In the event that no employee is qualified, or no employee volunteers the consulting teacher must drive between schools to be a consulting teacherperform this duty, the Employer educator will request that be reimbursed for the Regional Office of Education supply an individual who meets mileage at the criteria, or will choose a qualified employee district rate and shall be exempt from another Illinois school districtthe 30-minute supervision.
A Mattoon Community Unit #2 consulting teacher will assist in his remediation responsibilities during the time when he is not scheduled to teach and will receive compensation at the hourly rate specified in Article 7. The consulting teacher will develop with the remediating teacher a consultation schedule which beyond forty (40) hours must be approved by the Superintendent. With respect to a teacher that has been rated “unsatisfactory,” I. Compensation for the consulting teacher will make no evaluation in any circumstance. No statements by the consulting teacher about any aspect of the remediating teacher, either personal or related to the behavior under remediation, will be used in any evaluation, conversations, hearings, or records. It is the intention of the parties that any statements made by the consulting teacher to or about the remediating teacher are confidential between those two individuals and are not to be used by any other person for any reason. The Employer shall provide for the consulting teacher the same liability insurance protection as is provided for the school district administrators. If, after thirty (30) days of working with the consulting teacher, the remediating teacher determines that the consulting teacher is not helping him or her remediate, he or she may request another consulting teacher from the pool of consulting teachers by a written request amount paid to the participating principaleducators who serve as mentors.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
