3.54F—VOLUNTARY TEACHING INSTEAD OF PREPARATORY PERIOD AND/OR EXTRA DAILY STUDENTSCONTRACT ADDENDUM

The ______School District (District) and ______(Teacher) enter into the following contract addendum:

  1. Teacher has volunteered to teach a class on ______instead of a preparatory periodfrom _____ through _____;1, 2
  2. District agrees to pay Teacher for the loss of Teacher’s preparatory period in the amount of ______;2
  3. District agrees to pay Teacher for those students who enroll and attend Teacher’s class that are in excess of the Standard’s maximum daily number of students at the per student per day amount of ______3;
  4. District agrees to pay teacher _____4.
  5. This addendum between District and Teacher is in addition to and separate from any other contract between District and Teacher;
  6. Teacher understands that this agreement is not covered by the Teacher Fair Dismissal Act of 1983 (A.C.A. § 6-17-1501 et seq.); and
  7. District and Teacher agree that this contract shall be effective for the current semester and that future semesters shall require District and Teacher to enter into a new contract.

Teacher’s Signature: ______Date: ______

Superintendent’s Signature: ______Date: ______

Board President’s Signature: ______Date: ______

Notes:1 Insert the start and end dates of the contract.

2 A teacher is not required to use his/her prep period in order to teach more than the one hundred fifty (150) students daily maximum so long as each class period does not go above thirty (30) students. If this is the situation, delete #2, pluralize “class” in #3, renumber the remaining paragraphs, and substitute the following language for #1:

Teacher has volunteered to teach more than the one hundred fifty (150) maximum daily number of students, who shall be placed in the appropriate classes so that no one class contains more than thirty (30) students, from _____ through _____.

Standards has stated that a teacher teaching more than the maximum daily number of students will result in a flag during the cycle 2 report. If you provide Standards with a copy of the supplementary contract, Standards will go in and remove the flag.

3A.C.A. § 6-17-812 requires that a teacher who volunteers to teach more than the maximum one hundred fifty (150) daily number of students must be paid for each student that the teacher has above the one hundred fifty (150) daily limit. In order to calculate the per student per day rate of pay:

  • Take the base contract salary and divide it by the number of days in the contract to determine the teacher’s daily rate of pay; and
  • Divide the teacher’s daily rate of pay by one hundred fifty (150) to find the per student per day rate.

The teacher will then be paid the resulting per student amount multiplied by the number of students over one hundred fifty (150) that the teacher has enrolled each day. For example, Teacher has a contract for one hundred ninety days (190) with a salary of $31,000. To calculate the daily per student amount would look like this:(31,000/190) /150 = $1.09

If Teacher agrees to teach ten (10) additional students per day over the one hundred fifty (150) daily limit, then the teacher’s per student amount of one dollar and nine cents ($1.09) would be multiplied by ten (10) for each day the teacher has the ten (10) students above the one hundred fifty (150) in class.

The perstudent per day payments are in addition to any payments a teacher will receive under A.C.A. § 6-17-114 for agreeing to teach instead of a preparatory period.

4 Insert the payment schedule you wish to use. Our recommended language is either:

  1. “As a lump sum to be paid as part of Teacher’s final check of the semester.” Or
  2. “As anThe above amount(s) in (insert number of pay periods the addendum covers) equal payments, which are in addition to Teacher’s regular (monthly/biweekly) payment.”

Legal References: A.C.A. § 6-17-114

A.C.A. § 6-17-812

Date Adopted:

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