262.75 - INCENTIVES FOR COOPERATING TEACHERS.
262.75 INCENTIVES FOR COOPERATING TEACHERS.
A cooperating teacher incentive program is established to
encourage experienced teachers to serve as cooperating teachers for
student teachers enrolled in the institutions of higher education
under the control of the board. An individual who submits evidence
to an institution that the individual has satisfactorily served as a
cooperating teacher for a student teacher from any of the
institutions of higher education under the control of the board for
the duration of the student teaching experience shall receive from
the institution either a monetary recompense or a reduction in
tuition for graduate hours of coursework equivalent to the value of
the monetary recompense, rounded to the nearest whole credit hour.
If, because of a policy adopted by the board of directors employing
the teacher, the amount of the monetary recompense is not made
available to the teacher for the teacher's own personal use or the
salary paid to the cooperating teacher by the employing board is
correspondingly reduced, the institution shall grant the teacher the
reduction in tuition pursuant to this section in lieu of the monetary
recompense.
In lieu of the payment of monetary recompense to a cooperating
teacher, the cooperating teacher may direct that the monetary
recompense be paid by the institution directly into a scholarship
fund which has been established jointly by the board of directors of
the school district that employs the teacher and the local teachers'
association. In such cases, the cooperating teacher shall receive
neither monetary recompense nor any reduction in tuition at the
institution. Section History: Recent Form
88 Acts, ch 1266, §4; 95 Acts, ch 173, § 1