GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
S	1
SENATE BILL 586

 
 
Short Title:	Classroom Experience for School Personnel.	()	
Sponsors:	Senators Hartsell;  Bingham, Carpenter, Clodfelter, Dalton, Foxx, Garrou, Rand, and Wellons.	
Referred to:	Education/Higher Education.	
March 22, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT TO GIVE CLASSROOM EXPERIENCE TO PROFESSIONAL PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES WHO ARE NOT CLASSROOM TEACHERS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑47 is amended by adding a new subdivision to read:
"(18b)	To Enhance Professional Employees' Awareness of the Instructional Day. -- In order to improve professional employees' awareness of classroom climate and to give classroom experience to these employees, each local board of education shall adopt a policy that requires professional employees to deliver instruction or to have other contact with students in classrooms during the instructional day. This policy may require professional employees as a part of their regular duties to serve as substitute teachers in the classroom, teach model lessons in the classroom, assist the teacher in the classroom, tutor individual students in the classroom, or provide other services in the classroom. This policy also may provide for up to one renewal credit every five years per professional employee for these activities. For the purpose of this subdivision, the term `professional employees' means professional public school employees who do not have daily classroom instructional contact with students."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law and applies beginning with the 2001‑2002 school year.