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West Des Moines Community School District Substitute Teacher in West Des Moines, Iowa

2023/24 School Year

Information required to be on file:

  • Application

  • Current Iowa License (teaching, substitute teaching or substitute authorization)

  • Mandatory Reporters of Child Certificate (After initial training, refresher course required every three years). Taken through the Department of Human Services or Heartland AEA.

  • Mandatory Reporters of Dependent Adult Abuse Certificate (After intital training, refresher course required every three years). Taken through the Department of Human Services or Heartland AEA.

  • Right to Know Certificate (Hazardous Chemicals in the Workplace). Taken through Heartland AEA, no charge with our district password.

  • Copy of official transcript

  • On line background form that will be emailed to you

2023/24 School year:

Substitute Teacher $150/day

Minimum $75/day

16th day, consecutive or intermittent $170/day, $85/half day

Extended (16th day, retroactive; BA Level I per diem)

$200/day

For more than a full semester in the same assignment there will be the following fringe benefits:

  • 50 percent of single hospital/major medical

  • $10,000 term life insurance

  • Five paid sick days

  • Three days leave for death in immediate family

  • Three paid days leave for critical illness in the immediate family or critical business/emergency

*Substitute teachers and nurses are not entitled to and shall not receive a continuing employment contract pursuant to Iowa Code Section 279.15.

For more information please contact Jackie Armstrong, armstrongj@wdmcs.org.

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