Decision of the Governing Council on the Gymnasium Ordinance - School Management

1. The school administration consists of the principal, two vice-principals, and the administrator.

2. The administrator participates in the school administration meetings on matters affecting his/her area of responsibility.

3. The school administration issues duty rosters for all members and may issue duty rosters for commissions and conferences.

4. The duty rosters of the school administration require approval from the Department of Education.

1. Vice-rectors perform tasks of school administration. They are subordinate to the rector.

2. One vice-rector is designated as the representative of the rector. Among themselves, the vice-rectors act as mutual representatives.

1. The administrator is responsible for the administrative matters of the school within the guidelines set by the school administration.

2. He/she reports to the principal.

1. The Coordination Commission serves as the link between the school administration and the teaching staff as well as for the mutual coordination of work. It addresses educational issues that concern the entire school.

2. It is composed of the principal, the vice principals, and a number of representatives from the teaching staff and other school stakeholders as determined by the department.

3. It is led by the principal or a vice principal.

1. The Teacher Conference serves as a platform for the exchange among all individuals working at the school with a pedagogical assignment. It addresses issues related to school and teaching development as well as professional development.

2. It is composed of the school administration, all teachers, and the head of the library. It may include additional individuals as voting members.

3. The student organization is represented in the conference by two non-voting representatives.

4. The conference is chaired by a teacher who belongs to the Coordination Commission.

1. The Promotion Conference serves as a forum for exchange and decision-making on issues concerning the development and performance of individual students. It decides on the promotion of students.

2. It comprises the principal, who leads the conference, the vice-principals, and all teachers who teach in the respective class. It may include additional persons.

1. The Conference of Subject Teachers serves the purpose of coordinating teaching activities at the class level and facilitating exchange among those involved.

2. It consists of the teachers involved in a class. It may invite additional persons and is led by the respective class teacher.

1. The school administration may establish additional committees for professional cooperation and networking, particularly subject-related groups or administrative committees.

1. A class shall, as a rule, consist of at least 15 and at most 26 students.

2. Exceptions are decided by the department, whereby the school administration has the right to submit applications.

3. Each spring, the Department of Education determines the number of classes for the next school year based on the anticipated student numbers.

1. The staffing plan includes all positions at St. Antonius High School.

2. It is divided into a staffing plan for teaching personnel and one for administrative personnel.

1. A class comprises 1.8 full-time teaching positions.

2. Upon request from the school administration, the department may temporarily alter the number of teaching positions.

3. School assistants and attendants are not counted among the teaching staff but are employed as administrative personnel.

1. The responsibilities of the educational school administration comprise a total of no more than 39 lessons (39/23), with generally 17 lessons allocated to the principal.

2. The distribution among the individual members is determined by the department.

1. The working hours for teachers at the gymnasium are divided into the main elements of teaching time and non-teaching time.

1. The teaching time for teachers of academic subjects with a full-time position is 23 lessons of 45 minutes each per week.

2. For other teachers, the teaching time with a full-time position is 28 lessons of 45 minutes each per week.

1. Non-Teaching Time Serves the Purpose of

a) Lesson and Semester Planning;

b) Preparation and Follow-up of Lessons;

c) Preparation and Organization of Projects;

d) Counseling and Advising Students and Cooperation with Parents;

e) Further Education;

f) Completion of Administrative Tasks;

g) Completion of Community Tasks.

1. The school administration may require teachers to be present for work areas outside of teaching

a) during school weeks for an average of no more than five hours per week;

b) during non-teaching periods for a maximum of five days per semester.

2. The school administration may appropriately reduce the presence requirement for part-time teachers.

1. The vacation entitlement of teachers amounts to five weeks per year.

2. Vacation leave must be arranged with the school administration.

3. The school administration may issue directives regarding the leave.

1. The teacher is granted a salary corresponding to their pay grade and service level as outlined in the appendix.

2. The salary pertains to a full year and a complete workload. It is paid in 13 monthly installments, including any applicable functional allowances.

3. The salary for teaching workloads above or below the standard is calculated in proportion to the lessons given relative to the full workload.

1. Teachers receive age-related relief starting from the month in which they turn 50. This relief corresponds to the number of lessons in a school week per year. The applicable guideline is the average teaching load for the respective school year.

2. Teachers with a fixed-term employment or an average annual workload of less than 20% are not entitled to age-related relief.

3. The lessons credited for age-related relief should generally be taken in whole week blocks. This requires the consent of the school administration and may also be mandated.

4. Payment in lieu of taking the lessons from age-related relief is generally excluded. However, it may be exceptionally made at the end of an employment relationship if taking or mandating was objectively impossible.

5. The school administration is responsible for the implementation of the age-related relief. The Department of Education can issue detailed guidelines for the implementation in a directive.

1. Teachers in academic subjects are classified into salary grade 16 or 17 according to the appendix.

2. Teachers in creative and musical subjects are classified into salary grades 15 to 17 according to the appendix.

3. Teachers for physical education are classified into salary grade 15 or 16 according to the appendix.

4. The Commission of the Canton may, in special cases, classify teachers into a different salary grade or decide on the granting of functional allowances.

1. The service level corresponds to the creditable years of service.

2. Starting from the school year following the first creditable year of service, the teacher shall be granted an annual increase to the next higher service level according to the appendix.

3. If a teacher's performance is inadequate, the principal may, after consulting with the head of the Department of Education, deny a level increase.

1. The school year after commencing service is creditable.

2. If the commencement of service occurs in or at the start of the second school semester, there is no advancement in grade for the following school year.

3. Teaching activities performed at secondary level I and II schools are credited as years of service according to their duration.

4. Raising children up until the completion of their 18th year within the family, and activities in other professions following the completion of initial training, are credited at half value. These two activities cannot be combined.

1. Secondary tasks are considered compensated with the regular salary.

2. The department may approve separate compensations for particularly time-consuming secondary tasks.

3. Necessary and itemized expenses are reimbursed separately.

1. Teachers receive an additional monthly salary as a loyalty bonus after 10, 20, 30, and 40 years of service.

2. The calculation of the loyalty bonus is based on the average employment level during the last five reckonable years of service preceding the disbursement of the loyalty bonus. The salary level at the time of disbursement of the loyalty bonus is decisive.

3. For the calculation of service time, the following applies

a) Unpaid or paid leaves of more than one month are not counted towards service time;

b) Service time in the cantonal elementary school and the Appenzell Gymnasium is aggregated;

c) Previous service time in a school community in the canton is counted towards the current service time, provided it amounts to at least half a year in total.

1. The loyalty bonus can be converted in whole or in part into vacation time with the consent of the State School Commission, with one week of vacation corresponding to one-quarter of a month's salary. Conversion is only possible in whole vacation weeks.

2. An application to take vacation must be submitted to the State School Commission six months in advance.

3. The payment is made together with the salary for the month in which the required service period is completed.

4. The loyalty bonus is not insured under the pension plan.

1. Supplementary and by analogy, the personnel law for state personnel applies to teachers at the gymnasium.

1. The Decision of the Standards Commission on the Gymnasium Ordinance of August 14, 2006, is repealed.

1. The service level of teachers who were previously denied a step increase due to insufficient mandatory teaching duties at schools in the Canton of Appenzell I.Rh. will be increased by the missed step increases effective from the beginning of the 2022/23 school year, but not exceeding the highest service level according to the annex.

1. This resolution takes effect immediately.