I think this may be my most successful month of doing coverage yet. Coverage is when a teacher is out at a meeting or only out for one or two periods and other teachers sub the class during their conference periods. Some people hate it, but I don't mind it too much and I definitely don't mind getting my hourly rate for subbing. Obviously there isn't coverage available everyday, but at a school with 80 teachers, I do get asked fairly often. Since I have told the office I want to cover as often as possible, I'm high on their list of people to call.
This month I covered six days during my conference period and did Saturday School, which is another four hours. I also went to an after school meeting that I got another hour of pay for. If you're keeping track, that's eleven hours. Honestly, there have been some days that I did not feel like giving up my conference period to sub. That means more time spent after school on copies, lesson planning, grading, etc. But, I am thinking that after taxes that should be over $350 extra on my April paycheck. Which means that I should be able to pay off my Capital One card by the end of May.Yessssssss!
wow you get paid extra if you cover another's class? That's unheard of around here. Here one usually does it as a favour for a colleague and most of the time it is paid back in kind.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on attacking your CO card with the extra cash.
Every little bit helps! And if you're going to be at school anyway...
ReplyDeletepour me a cup of that energy, chica!
ReplyDeleteThat's so awesome that you get paid to do that...I have suggested it SO MANY times to our principal because we have major problems getting subs in my school, but for some reason it's against our union rules. Administration is also barred from asking us to do it. But if we were allowed to I would sign up in a hot second!
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting, it's in our contract that they have to pay us for it but that we are not required to do it. Best of both worlds, I think. :) With so many IEPs or times when subs are late or teachers just take off a few periods, I can't imagine if we didn't use this system or didn't get paid for it. I will be extra thankful for the opportunity, I guess.
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