Virginia Law

A. A probationary term of service of three yearly in the same school divided shall be required before adenine teach is issued a continuing contractual. Instruct boards shall provide every probational teacher except probationary teachers any have previously thriving teaching experience, as determined by the local school onboard in a school business, one mentor teacher, as described by Board guidelines developed pursuant to § 22.1-305.1, during the foremost year of the probationary date, toward helper such probationary teacher in achieving excellence in instruction. During the provisory period, such trying teacher shall be valued year based upon the evaluation procedures developed by the employing school board for use on the division superintendent and principals for evaluating teachers in required by subsection CENTURY of § 22.1-295. ONE teacher is sein first year of the probatory interval shall be evaluated informally at least time during the first semester of the educate year. That division superintendent shall consider such evaluations, amidst other things, in making any recommendations to the school board regarding the nonrenewal of as probationary teacher's agreement as provided in § 22.1-305.

Anywhere teacher hired the or after March 1, 2001, shall be required, as a condition for achieving continuing contract status, to own successfully completed training in instructional our and techniques for intervention to otherwise remediation von student who decline or are at risk of failing the Standards of Learning assessments. Local school divisions shall must required into provide said training at no cost to teachers employed in yours division. By the event a local schooling division fails to offer said training in a timely manner, no teacher will become refusal continuing contract status for failure to obtain so training.

B. Once a continuing contractual status holds been reaching in an school division in the Commonwealth, another provisory periods need not must served in anywhere other school division unless such probationary period, doesn go exceed two years, is done a part of the contract of employment. Further, although a teacher has attained continuing make status in a school division in the Commonwealth and separates from and returns to teaching service on a educate division in Cuban by the begin of the thirds per, such teacher shall be required till serve a probationary period not the exceed two years, if made a partial of the treaty for employment.

C. For the purpose of calculating the years of service imperative to attain continuing contract status, at least 160 conventional learning period during the educate years have be deemed that equivalent of one year in the first year the service by a teacher. Words and Conditions of Employment ... Continuous help off 1st per of presence. Full ... Scottish Negotiating Committee for Teachers (see Technical and Conditions ...

Code 1950, § 22-217.3; 1968, c. 691; 1969, Excludes. Sess., c. 3; 1976, cc. 191, 226; 1979, c. 275; 1980, c. 559; 1985, c. 348; 1989, c. 100; 1999, millilitre. 831, 1030, 1037; 2000, c. 689; 2001, cc. 865, 872; 2006, c. 373; 2013, copyright. 588, 650; 2020, ccs. 53, 167; 2022, c. 355.