ARTICLE 11 TEACHER DUTIES

Barrington School District

SECTION 1. In the event of the absence of either regular or special area teachers, a reasonable effort will be made to obtain a substitute qualified in the subject involved. If the District is unable to obtain qualified substitute coverage, and teachers are required to cover the classes of an absent colleague, then the teacher providing that coverage shall be paid a sum at the curriculum rate in addition to their daily compensation, but only if they are required to provide coverage during their preparation period. In the unusual circumstance that the District is unable to provide coverage either by hiring a qualified substitute teacher or through coverage by teachers or other qualified District staff, then the District shall reassign the students from the class of the absent teacher to the classes of similarly situated teachers in the building, each of whom shall be paid the daily coverage rate of $220.00 for a full day, to be divided equally by all those teachers who are collectively providing coverage in this manner. In the event the coverage is for less than a full day, the payment of $220.00 will be prorated accordingly.

SECTION 2. Teachers shall not be required to perform the duty of collecting money from students with the exception of the collection of curricular cost of programs and, no more

than once per week, lunch and milk money. Curricular cost of programs shall not include such items as class photographs, insurance, class rings, yearbook or any other items not clearly related to curriculum.

SECTION 3. Secondary teachers shall not be required to teach in more than two (2) subject areas, i.e., more than two of the following subject areas: Art, business, English, industrial arts, language, mathematics, music, physical education, science and social studies.

SECTION 4. A schedule of duty assignments for all teachers shall be posted within each school.

SECTION 5. Teachers shall not be required to perform morning and afternoon bus duty supervision.

SECTION 6. The NEAB President and Grievance Chairperson shall not be assigned any non-teaching duties.

SECTION 7. Elementary teachers will be relieved of non-teaching duties by the use of teacher assistants and/or volunteers for that purpose so as to permit concomitant addition of fifteen minutes of teaching time or engaging in such other professional activities as the Administration shall direct without expanding the length of the teachers' day. Among the permissible alternatives by which to accomplish the purposes aforesaid is the reduction of recess time by 15 minutes . The means by which this shall be accomplished may vary from school to school but such means as may be selected by any school must have the approval of the Superintendent. Nothing herein shall permit violation of the Support Group Collective Bargaining Agreement or affect in any way the operation of Article 11 Section 2.