Professional Teacher: Fill in the Blank Activity

Quiz: Principal and Teacher Employment Contracts

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Select the correct term to fill in each blank in the following statements about North Carolina GS 115c-325. You will receive immediate feedback, and when you select the correct term for a given statement, that term will be removed from the list of options for the remaining statements as well as from the “answer bin.”

A “career school administrator” means a school administrator who has obtained career status in an administrative position as provided in G.S. 115C-325(d)(2).
“Day” means calendar day when computing any period of time according to Rule 6 of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.
“Demote” means to reduce the salary of a person who is classified or paid by the State Board of Education as a classroom teacher or as a school administrator. The word "demote" does not include many features such as the elimination or reduction of bonus payments.
“Disciplinary suspension” is the final decision to suspend a teacher or school administrator without pay for no more than 60 days under G.S. 115C-325(f)(2).
“Probationary teacher” is a licensed person, other than a superintendent, associate superintendent, or assistant superintendent, who has not obtained career-teacher status and whose major responsibility is to teach or to supervise teaching
A teacher is a person who holds at least a current, not provisional or expired, Class A license or a regular, not provisional or expired, vocational license issued by the State Board of Education; whose major responsibility is to teach or directly supervises teaching or who is classified by the State Board of Education or is paid either as a classroom teacher or instructional support personnel; and who is employed to fill a full-time, permanent position.
“Year” for purposes of computing time as a probationary teacher shall be not less than 120 workdays performed as a probationary teacher in a full-time permanent position in a school year.
The superintendent shall maintain in his office a personnel file for each teacher that contains any complaint, commendation, or suggestion for correction or improvement about the teacher’s professional conduct unless the letter of complaint that contains invalid, irrelevant, outdated, or false information or (ii) a letter of complaint when there is no documentation of an attempt to resolve the issue.
The complaint, commendation, or suggestion shall be signed by the person who makes it and shall be placed in the teacher’'s file only after 5 days’ notice to the teacher.
The local board of education may order the superintendent to remove said information if it finds the information is invalid, irrelevant, or outdated.
A career teacher who has been granted a leave of absence by a board shall maintain his career status if he returns to his teaching position at the end of the authorized leave.
A career employee recommended for suspension without pay pursuant to G.S. 115C-325(a)(4a) may request a hearing before the board. If no request is made within 15 days, the superintendent may file his recommendation with the board.
The superintendent shall provide written notice to a probationary teacher no later than May 15 of the superintendentr’s intent to recommend nonrenewal and the teacher's right, within 10 days of receipt of the superintendentr’s recommendation.
A career employee who has been demoted or dismissed, or a school administrator whose contract is not renewed, who has not requested a hearing before the board of education based on various sections of G.S. 115C-325 shall not be entitled to judicial review of the board's action.
Those employed in Low-Performing Residential Schools (teacher, principal, assistant principal, director, supervisor, or other licensed personnel) can be dismissed when the Secretary receives two consecutive evaluations that include written findings and recommendations regarding that person&8217;s inadequate performance from the assistance team.