Master Agreement 2005 - State Employment Relations Board

they have an effective vehicle for democratic involvement in
the decision-making processoftheir school. On the other
hand, inaschoolwhereteachers rely on others to make the
council work, they may find that they have a democratic
council on paper only, or that they have no council at all. Any
school that does not develop such a council will be in violation
of board policy aswellasthenegotiated agreement.
Use of Instructional Assistants
Instructional assistants shall be employed for use in the Columbus
City Schools under the following guidelines:
Guidelines
1. The function of an instructional assistant is to assist the
teacher in the performance of his/her assigned duties. The
term teacher is used as defined in Section 3319.09 of the Ohio
Revised Code to mean any certificated professional staff
employee.
2. The duties and work schedule for instructional assistants
should be flexible and the hours employed consistent with the
needs of the particular school.
3. Instructional assistants assigned to a teacher to assist in the
supervision of children shall, when the teacher is not immediately
present, maintain the degree of control anddiscipline
which would be maintained by that teacher. However, an educational
aide may not render corporal punishment.
4. The activity of an instructional assistant shall at all times be
under the direction and supervision of the teacher to whom
assigned. In the event aninstructional assistant is assigned to
assist more than one teacher, the assignment shall be clearly
delineated and so arranged that the instructional assistant shall
never be subject to simultaneous supervision or direction by
more than one teacher.
5. Instructional assistants shall have all rights, benefits and legal
protection available to other non-certificated employees and
shall be members of the School Employees Retirement System.
Instructional assistants shall be compensated according to a
salary plan adopted annually by the Board.
6. No person who is, or who has been employed as an instructional
assistant shall divulge, except to the teacher to whom
assigned, or the administratoroftheschoolinthe absence of
the teacher to whom assigned, or when required to testify in a
court of proceeding, any personal information concerning any
pupil in the school district which was obtained or obtainable
by the instructional assistant while so employed. Violation of
this provision is grounds for disciplinary action or dismissal,
or both.
7. A continuingevaluationprocedurewill be used to insure that
both the professional and the aide are having needs met and
description fulfilled.
8. Total responsibility for the employment, assignment, and/or
the release from duty of instructional assistants shall rest with
the local school administrator.
9. The responsibility for the allocation of instructional assistants
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