When Vocational Teachers new to the District are employed and do not have a teaching certificate/license, they will be placed on Class III of the salary schedule in the following manner; professional work or career experience will be counted as one year of work equaling one step on the salary schedule through five years of work experience equal to step 6. For placement on step 7 and/or 8, professional work or career experience will be counted as two years of work experience equaling one step on the salary schedule. Step 8 on Class III is the highest available step for employees employed after May 1, 1994. Lateral movement on the salary schedule for new vocational teachers who have not earned a Bachelor’s degree will be as follows; they may move to class IV when they have completed 18 semester hours of undergraduate college credits, and to class V when they have completed 35 semester hours of undergraduate college credit, and to class VI when they have completed 45 semester hours of undergraduate credit. Any lateral movement on the salary schedule will be based only on those college credits earned after the date of hire. Vocational teachers cannot advance to class VII until they have completed a Master’s degree and 18 semester hours of graduate credit beyond their Master’s degree. Lateral movement on the salary schedule for new vocational teachers who have earned a Bachelor’s degree prior to employment will be the same as stated above; however, they will be given credit for graduate and undergraduate college credit earned after the receipt of their Bachelor’s degree for salary schedule placement.
