EMPLOYMENT OF SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. A. It is the policy of the Board of Education to employ a substitute teacher whenever a teacher must be absent for a half-day or longer. Such substitutes will normally be persons competent in the area(s) for which the regular teacher is responsible. To provide for situations when persons with the appropriate competencies are unobtainable, arrangements will be made in advance to enable other substitutes to supervise the classes.
B. The responsibility of the teacher when a substitute is required is to notify the person designated by the administration to obtain substitutes for that school or department.
C. The Board also recognizes, however, that emergency situations other than fiscal ones may arise when it may not be feasible to carry out the above policy. In such a case the Board reserves the right to assign teachers to coverage when required by the situation, subject to the provisions set out below.
D. The following procedures shall prevail with regard to the use of regularly-employed members of the teaching staff at the middle and high school levels for the purpose of coverage of classes during the regular school day. The procedures shall also apply to teachers in the elementary schools if said teachers are required to cover for an absent teacher during their scheduled preparation time or lunch period.
E. In the event a class period cannot be covered when a teacher is absent or unavailable and a per diem substitute teacher is not available for coverage, regularly employed members of the teaching staff who have expressed interest in writing in volunteering for such coverage assignments will be first requested to cover the affected class.
F. The rate of pay for such coverage shall be $28.00 per hour, with that value to be pro-rated for class periods that are less than one hour or more than one hour, rounded up (e.g. compensation for a 45 minute period would be $21.00; for a one and one-half hour period, $42.00).
G. Except as provided above, no regularly-employed member of the teaching staff will be required to oversee a coverage assignment, even if that individual has previously expressed interest in writing in volunteering for such assignments. If no regularly-employed member of the teaching staff is available to cover such classes on a voluntary basis, such assignments shall be made on a rotating basis among teachers available during the applicable class period. Teachers so assigned shall receive the payment set out in paragraph F above.
EMPLOYMENT OF SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. A. The Board recognizes its responsibility to procure the services of substitute teachers in order to prevent the impermissible abatement of the operation of the schools as a result of the absence of regular personnel.
B. The substitute shall follow the daily plan provided by the regular teacher, and when such plan is exhausted, shall so report to the Principal.
C. The Superintendent shall recruit, screen, and recommend to the Board, candidates for substitute employment, and shall develop procedures for the assignment of substitutes, develop methods of evaluating substitute teachers, and recommend the retention on the Board’s approval a substitute list of only those substitutes who have performed their duties satisfactorily.
EMPLOYMENT OF SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS. All attempts shall be made to employ a substitute teacher so that a teacher’s assistant shall not be left alone with students in the classroom for one-half (½) of the school day or longer.
