Extended independence project
The subject of the measure of the Rhineland-Palatinate state government, which was previously known as the Extended Self- Employment Project (PES), is the avoidance of temporary loss of lessons by expanding the scope of action for schools in Rhineland-Palatinate .
aims
As part of this project, the temporary loss of lessons is to be further reduced by relocating the decision on substitution options to the schools and expanding the decision-making options of the school management with regard to the deployment of teachers. For this purpose, the schools receive their own budget. At the same time, opportunities to establish employment relationships in schools using electronic data exchange with the Supervision and Service Directorate (ADD) and the Oberfinanzdirektion (OFD) are being expanded.
The participating schools should develop a representation concept for the school within a given budget, i. H. Independently arranging and organizing substitute lessons, using the freedom to use the hours assigned to them, developing a willingness to substitute in the school and in the school environment, including the need for substitution in the planning stage, using all possibilities to reduce missed lessons, the missed lessons in the specified manner document and report on their experiences and suggestions for improvement.
Development so far
After a preliminary project with 10 schools in the 2001/2002 school year, 142 schools of different types of schools successfully participated in this project in the first project year, the 2002/2003 school year. In the second year of the project, the 2003/2004 school year, the number rose to 238 schools; in the 2004/2005 school year there were 326 schools; In the fourth year of the project, the 2005/2006 school year, 444 schools, including 40 full-day elementary schools for the first time, successfully take part in PES. In general, it can be said that the schools involved so far very much welcome these expanded opportunities and that the number of lessons lost has been significantly reduced at the project schools. In the 2013/14 school year, 792 public schools are taking responsibility for regulating their temporary cancellation of lessons. Again from the 2013/14 school year, the "Project Extended Independence of Schools" has been transferred to the regular operation of ADD under the new name "Personnel management in the context of extended independence of schools" (PES).
execution
The schools involved in the project are trained in regional training events. The project is supported by a steering group from the school inspectorate and the training institutes.
Regulations
Each school receives its own replacement budget, graduated according to school size, to regulate short-term replacement needs. Associated with this are some conditions that demand that all possibilities for teaching teaching should be exhausted. The funds available to the school can be used to independently conclude representation contracts with a duration of up to one year if the school organizational measures are not sufficient. The school is required to develop and evaluate a concept for the representation of lessons. Thanks to the budget, it is possible to “buy in” additional hours from outside (willingness to substitute in the school environment). If a substitute by a teacher trained for the type of school with the 1st and 2nd state examination is not possible, additional specialist and educational offers by qualified staff from outside can take the place of the substitute teaching (example: a training course on the subject of "digital photography and Image processing on the PC "). The school management should try out the possibilities of employing teachers whose resilience is limited for health reasons (group formation, double occupation, etc.). The ADD Teacher Health Working Group also provides advice on this type of deployment . A final condition is the school's analysis and assessment of its activities in terms of gender impact. If unilateral disadvantages are identified, future deployment plans will be changed in such a way that these disadvantages no longer occur.
Content requirements
The participating schools undertake to carry out an analysis of the current situation against the background of the framework conditions described, to develop and describe a concept, i.e. by coordinating all school activities related to the school year, by means of basic rules for representation and the establishment of willingness to represent in the Reduce school missed lessons. Furthermore, the schools should develop a willingness to represent in the school environment and make an educationally justified substitute and work offer to pupils affected by representation. The aim of the schools should be to create the content-related and technical prerequisites for the conclusion of contracts and the recording of the loss of lessons in coordination with the ADD and to carry out the necessary work, while complying with the existing legal requirements. The activities and results are to be documented, analyzed and evaluated. A regular statistical survey of the class representatives is also expected. Of course, the schools should work closely with the school authority, the highest school authority, the equal opportunities officer , the staff councils and the parents' representatives and, if necessary, involve the representatives of the severely disabled. In the school, records are to be kept of the actual use of the teachers in order to be able to strive for a balanced workload for the teachers in substitutions. Family policy aspects must also be taken into account. In particular, the school has to observe regulations on leave of absence and release of teachers and to plan the further training activities in the medium term in the sense of a further training concept. A coordinated planning is to be aimed for for school trips and other school projects.
requirements
The school management includes the entire conference in the decision on participation in PES. The local staff council and, if necessary, the representatives of the severely disabled are to be involved. In the interests of trusting cooperation, participation in PES should be decided by mutual agreement.
Instruments
The Landesmedienzentrum Rheinland-Pfalz provides the PES schools with an internet portal. It contains all the tools needed to
- to set up a school-related database for the willingness to represent,
- To include people in a cross-school substitution database,
- To automatically draw up employment contracts in accordance with the current state of labor law,
- To record information about the substitution concept,
- Collect statistical information
The PES portal is part of the comprehensive central Rhineland-Palatinate database and portal system eSchule24