Instructional Assistants Clause Examples

Instructional Assistants. (Employed under O.R.C. 3319.088). A. One week after the Instructional Assistant Job Fair, the Director, Classified Personnel shall prepare a list of all known vacancies in instructional assistants’ positions for the following year. Copies of this list will be posted in each school. B. Instructional assistants to be considered for such vacancies shall apply to the Administrator announced on the posting. C. The Board shall consider job classification seniority as one of the determining factors in selecting among the applicants whose qualifications are relatively equal. D. Instructional assistants shall be notified of their school assignment for the next school year no later than their last assigned work day in June. Such notification shall not be a guarantee of re- employment for the following school year if layoff is in accordance with law or this Agreement. An instructional assistant may only be removed for cause or laid off for lack of work, lack of funds, or abolishment of position. If not laid off, all instructional assistants shall be given the option to retain their current assignment each school year if the instructional assistant receives a satisfactory evaluation. The evaluation shall be conducted no later than May 1. The Board will notify an Instructional Assistant who is not to return the next school year as soon as possible. If it becomes necessary to lay off instructional assistants, the instructional assistant with the least system seniority in the particular grouping of instructional assistants, in a given building or program, will be laid off. An instructional assistant laid off (originally or a result of a bump) will have an opportunity to bump an instructional assistant in the same grouping who has less system seniority. The layoff should be accomplished using a “paper layoff’ in order to minimize disruption in accordance with procedures agreed upon by the Board and Union. Displaced persons must bump to the position that will provide the minimum disruption (first to a vacancy and then to the least senior to be bumped within the job grouping). If the laid off employee has no opportunity to a bump to a position within the employee’s job grouping, the laid off employee shall be able to bump first to a vacancy, then the least senior employee in any job grouping within the family in which the laid off employee’s grouping is located, and then to a job grouping the employee previously was employed in a different job family within the provided the...

Instructional Assistants. 23.2.1 Whenever possible, unit members shall be given opportunity to participate in the interview process for instructional assistants. 23.2.2 The unit member serves as classroom manager in the instructional assistant relationship and in this capacity, delineates the classroom duties of the instructional assistant. 23.2.3 The unit member will provide input to the supervising principal regarding the instructional assistant's performance of classroom duties using the appropriate form located on the SCOE website under Human Resources and Services forms in conjunction with conversations with the supervisor. Unit member input will not constitute the sole basis of the instructional assistant's evaluation. 23.2.4 The unit member input form will be submitted no later than January 1 to allow the evaluating supervisor time to observe and, if necessary develop support for the instructional assistant and/or the unit member. 23.2.5 When a concern arises regarding the instructional assistant's performance, the unit member is entitled to a meeting with the supervising principal and the instructional assistant to address the concern and to reach a satisfactory resolution. 23.2.6 Should the unit member, principal and instructional assistant be unable to reach a satisfactory conclusion, the matter will be discussed with the director of the appropriate program, who will make a decision. 23.2.7 Should any of the parties involved disagree with the decision, they may submit a written statement to that effect to the Superintendent for a final decision. 23.2.8 When requested, the will receive training to assist the unit members in the supervisory role in working with instructional assistants.

Instructional Assistants. Special Needs, Health Care Assistants, and Health Care Assistant LVN who are assigned to “medically fragile” students may have their regularly scheduled work hours adjusted in order to meet the needs of the student without declaring the position vacated. Medically fragile students are those students who are required to have an Instructional Assistant – Special Needs, a Health Care Assistant, and/or a Health Care Assistant LVN who is trained to meet their specific medical needs, e.g, students who have a tracheotomy.

Instructional Assistants. Full-time - 6 or more hours per day (5 days per week) Part-time - Less than 6 hours per day OR fewer than 5 days/week

Instructional Assistants. A substitute Instructional Assistant will be requested beginning with the first day the Instructional Assistant is absent due to illness.

Instructional Assistants. 1. The normal daily work hours for an instructional assistant will be six (6) hours. 2. Instructional assistants who work more than five (5) hours per day will be given a non-paid thirty (30) minute duty free lunch period. 3. Instructional assistants who work four (4) or more hours shall be given a fifteen (15) minute break as part of their workday. This fifteen (15) minute break shall not be scheduled as the first fifteen (l5) minutes nor the last fifteen (15) minutes of the workday.

Instructional Assistants. If a kindergarten class size is twenty-five (25) or more students, then a two (2) hour instructional assistant will be assigned to that class daily. If a kindergarten class size is twenty-eight (28) or more students, then a five (5) hour instructional assistant will be assigned to that class daily. If an elementary classroom in Grade 1, Grade 2 or Grade 3 is twenty-five (25) or more students, a two (2) hour instruction assistant will be assigned to that class daily. If an elementary classroom in Grade 4 or Grade 5 exceeds thirty (30) students, then a two (2) hour instructional assistant will be assigned to that class daily. The second (2nd) Monday in September will be used as the official class size number. If the position is posted by the Board, the Board will continue to post the position until qualified candidates are hired. If a class size number includes a/n student(s) who is/are considered a SPED student(s) and has a designated paraprofessional(s) for the said student(s), the student(s) will not count in the class size numbers listed above.

Instructional Assistants. Instructional Assistants shall normally be classified as 10‐month employees. However, their work schedule may vary based on factors that include but are not limited to program design, track assignment of partner teacher, grade level, special student needs, etc. The work year will normally be 181 days. If the program extends into any Intersession or Summer School, the incumbent shall have the first opportunity for any additional hours. All other additional hours shall be offered by seniority. Instructional Assistants shall have the opportunity to request particular track assignments. Depending upon the needs of the district and the specific program adopted at the site, instructional assistants may be placed on different calendars as outlined in the calendars section above. Instructional assistants not satisfied with their calendar or track assignment may opt for the ‘one time transfer’ alternative specified above. During Winter Break and the time between YRE school years, an employee shall: 1. Take vacation time or, 2. Take unpaid days or, 3. Work scheduled time with approval of their supervisor,

Instructional Assistants. Instructional Assistants are paraprofessionals under the direction of the appropriate building principal(s) and the guidance of a teacher(s) who instructs students.