Hiring a Teacher Mentor

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You absolutely need a reasonable, coherent job description if you are trying to recruit someone. If you are talking about paying a stipend to a teacher, you need to know the rules for that. Contacting the school HR department is a good first step.

One thing to consider for any paid mentor (teacher or not) is insurance. Currently my co-leader and I split a modest stipend. The few hundred bucks is nice but what it really does for me is to ensure that I am insured. FRC has the potential for serious accidents. A paid adviser is being put into a position with a lot of potential liability. Even more so for a teacher, because in addition to being sued a teacher could lose his or her job if an accident happens. I love doing FIRST but without knowing that I was covered by the school insurance policy I don't think I would do it. At least not at my school. Even if the mentor is not a teacher, you are going to want to consider covering them.