410.4 - Education Associate

The board may employ education associate or other instructional support personnel to assist licensed personnel in nonteaching duties, including, but not limited to:

• managing and maintaining records, materials and equipment;
• attending to the physical needs of children; and
• performing other limited services to support teaching duties when such duties are determined and directed by the teacher.

Education aides who hold a teaching certificate are compensated at the rate of pay established for their position as an education associate. It is the responsibility of the principal to supervise education associates.

 

 

Legal Reference:  Iowa Code §§ 279.8; 280.3, .14.
                                      281 I.A.C. 12.4(9); .5(9).

Cross Reference:  411.2 Classified Employee Qualifications, Recruitment, Selection

Approved: March 1996.
Reviewed:  April 2009, January 2011, January 2014, January 2017, May 2020