POLICY 5-2.6 HIRING: TEMPORARY PERSONNEL, PART-TIME AND SUBSTITUTE
PROFESSIONAL STAFF
Substitute Teachers
Persons who hold a
baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher learning or who
are enrolled in a full-time four (4)-year program leading to a baccalaureate
degree shall be eligible to substitute teach on a daily basis. A substitute teacher who teaches continuously
in excess of ninety (90) days shall hold a valid teaching license. A substitute
teacher may not fill a particular teacher vacancy for longer than ninety (90)
teaching days during one school year, unless otherwise approved by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction on a case-by-case basis.
Substitute teachers must
have completed sixty (60) college semester credit hours or ninety (90) college
quarter credit hours to substitute teach in
Substitute teachers will
be paid at a daily rate identified on the current Montgomery County School
Board substitute teacher salary scale.
Any substitute teacher placed in a long-term assignment extending more
than fifteen (15) days shall begin to earn the higher substitute salary from
the substitute teacher salary scale on the sixteenth (16th) day of
the assignment.
All persons newly
employed as substitute teachers must complete all required employment paperwork
required by applicable
1. A medical certificate stating that
such person appears free from communicable tuberculosis;
2. Fingerprints and descriptive
information to be submitted along with the fingerprints through the Central
Records Exchange to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the purpose
of obtaining criminal record information; and
3. Written consent and the necessary
personal information to obtain a search of the registry of founded complaints
of child abuse and neglect maintained by the Virginia Department of Social
Services.
Before being assigned to
a classroom as a substitute teacher, the candidate must participate in the
Substitute Orientation Program presented by the school division’s human
resources department. The program shall
provide substitutes with information concerning the school division and
building procedures, class routines, division and school philosophy, the use of
the division’s automated substitute calling system, the division’s policies
regarding sexual harassment, student and employee health, and other relevant
policies.
The division’s human
resources department will maintain a centralized calling system to secure
substitute teachers from the approved, official list. Only those substitutes on the approved list
maintained by the human resources department are eligible for employment. Principals may not utilize substitutes who
have not completed the mandatory orientation program and who are not on the
approved substitute list. Any school,
which uses a substitute not on the approved list, shall reimburse the School
Board for the cost of such substitute.
No substitute placed on
the approved list is guaranteed or entitled to any appointment or to regular
appointments. The human resources
department may remove substitutes from the approved list based on poor
performance or repeated failure to accept daily assignments.
Homebound Teachers
Homebound teachers will
be employed on a part-time, hourly basis.
They will be selected from the approved substitute teacher list and
shall hold a valid teaching license.
Part-Time Teachers
A teacher working less than 180 days or less than six
(6) hours per day or who is restricted to temporary or interim employment is
considered part-time. Part-time teachers
shall meet the same licensure requirements and other requirements (such as
criminal history check, tine test for TB, reference checks, etc.) as those
demanded of full-time employees, and all other pertinent standards of the
Virginia Board of Education shall be met.
Summer School Teachers
Summer school teachers shall meet all licensure and
health requirements of full-time teaching personnel. No benefits or leave programs applicable to
teachers during the regular session are available to summer school teachers.
Interns
Arrangements for the utilization of interns in the
Student Teachers
The school division will
accept student teachers only from accredited institutions. All student teachers shall meet the same
health requirements as all other personnel.
The division superintendent shall have the responsibility for the
assignment and placement of student teachers in the school system. Student teachers who are enrolled in a
graduate internship model may be used as substitute teachers when it does not
conflict with responsibilities associated with their internship. Student
teachers enjoy the same coverage of Tort Liability Insurance as any other
teacher.
LEGAL
REFERENCE:
Code of Virginia, 1950, as amended, §§ 22-1.281, 22.1-282, 22.1-283,
22.1-299, 22.1-302; Licensure Regulations for School Personnel, 8 VAC
20-22-10.
Revised: September 2005, June 2010