Section 6-107 - Student teachers and student interns. - Maryland Statutes

§ 6-107. Student teachers and student interns.
 

(a)  Agreements between county boards and institutions of higher education.- A county board may make an agreement or financial arrangement with an institution of higher education that satisfies the conditions of § 11-202 of this article, to provide classroom or administrative office experience for student teachers and student interns. 

(b)  Supervising teachers.- The institution of higher education and the county board where the student teaching center program is adopted shall: 

(1) Approve or select jointly the supervising teachers, who are employees of the county board, to serve in the program; and 

(2) Adopt an agreed, continuing, in-service improvement program for the supervising teachers. 

(c)  Authority of student teachers.-  

(1) While the student teacher is assigned as a student teacher, he shall be given the same authority as if he were a certificated employee of the county board to which he is assigned. 

(2) The authority of the student teacher extends to: 

(i) Every aspect of student management or discipline; 

(ii) The handling of records of students; and 

(iii) Any other aspect of authority granted to a certificated employee of a county board. 

(d)  Agents for purposes of liability insurance and workers' compensation.- Student teachers and student interns are considered agents of the county board for the limited purposes of: 

(1) Comprehensive liability insurance coverage under § 4-105 of this article; and 

(2) Workers' compensation coverage under the Maryland Workers' Compensation Act, but this coverage is not to exceed the salary of a first year teacher in the county school system. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 77, §§ 112B, 116B; 1978, ch. 22, § 2; 1986, ch. 5, § 1; 1991, ch. 21, § 3; 1993, ch. 5, § 1; 1996, ch. 10, § 16.]