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Our representative will reach out to you within 48 hours and arrange a face-to-face meeting. Please bring the following documents(if available) to the meeting:

• * Driver License / Government Issued ID
• * TB Test Proof
• * ECE Unit proof
• * Background check receipt

Go to the Teacher Requirements page, upload your ECE Units Proof, TB Test Proof and a selfie (no hats or sunglasses), complete the Teacher Profile, then click Submit application. Our representative will help you complete this form during our meeting.

You will receive the Teacher Signature Form in email after we verified your documents (usually within 24 hours). It includes the “Iducator Teacher Application Form” and the “W-9 Form”. W-9 is needed for tax filing. Please check your email account, and make sure our email is not in spam folder.

Once you receive the email to sign the “Iducator Teacher Application Form” and the “W-9 Form”, please sign it online as soon as possible. We will do a final review of your application and get back to you within 1-2 days. You need to be verified and approved by Iducator before receiving jobs. Approved applicants can start earning on Iducator platform. Refer to Substitute Teacher Employment Instructions to learn how to take jobs and start working.

California Law (California Child Day Care Facilities Act – Cal. Health & Safety Code, Div. 2, Chaps. 3.4-3.6, §§ 1596.70 – 1597.621) requires fingerprinting and background check for all those who will be working with children in daycare and preschool. This requirement is listed on Department of Social Services website.

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If you have been fingerprinted (live scan) by another daycare / preschool, you will not need to retake it as long as you remain in the Department of Social Service record. Your background clearance can be transferred to facility you are going to work with or us. Please bring your Live Scan receipt so we have it on file. Below is a sample live scan applicant copy/receipt:

To verify your background clearance. Iducator needs to do an inquiry to California Department of Social Service (CDSS) Community Licensing Or to TrustLine. We need provide either California Driver License Number or your State ID number for this inquiry.

If you have never been fingerprinted (live scan) before, you will need to take it before we can approve your application. Your Iducator Representative will give you a Livescan package with detailed instructions.

Live scan costs around $90.

Substitute teachers are paid by Iducator bi-weekly on school approved hours. Substitute teachers earn money by working on school requests. By the end of the week, substitute teacher are required to submit timesheet. For jobs that are longer than a week, substitute teacher are required to submit timesheet every week. School director has up to one week to approve submitted timesheets.

Substitute Teachers can also earn extra money without even working in the classrooms. If they invite a friend to work with Iducator, we’ll say thanks with a cash bonus to both the referrer and referee. Currently there’s no limit on referral bonus(Terms and conditions apply).

Your payment will be directly deposited to your bank account. Please bring a void check when you meet our representative so we can set up direct deposit for you.

Iducator starts the bi-weekly payment process on Saturday. All school approved hours before processing time will be included in the payment calculation. Hourly rate is based on the each job’s teacher level requirements. For example, if a job requested 4 hours Teacher Aide, you will be paid at the rate of Teacher Aide for these 4 hours. If another job requested 8 hours of the Teacher, you will be paid at the rate of teacher for those 8 hours. Local hourly rates will be available to view in the Profile menu after completion of sign up.

Sign up bonus are paid out when the teacher himself/herself completed the work hours’ requirement. Referral bonus are paid out when the referred teacher completed the work hours’ requirement.

Iducator starts the bi-weekly payment process on Saturday. The first five payment may take 4-5 days before it shows on your account. After that it usually took two days. You will receive an email by Tuesday from QuickBook Online Billpay that tells you when it will be deposited.

No. You are an Independent Contractor. Iducator DOES NOT take tax out of your payment.You will receive a 1099 form early next year and file income tax yourself.

Iducator use address information to match you up with school that are near you. Up to date experience information help you being selected by school directors. Also, make sure phone number are correct and able to receive text messages.

Iducator’s platform will text you when your location and background meet school’s criteria for school’s request. Click the link in the text message to view the job details.

After review the job, click Accept to accept the job, or click decline to decline it if it doesn’t work for your schedule. Once accepted, the job will appear in your employment calendar but grayed, for pending school confirmation.

Level Bonus

Most schools agreed to pay a Level Bonus to teachers overqualified for the requested job in addition to its normal hourly rate. For example, if you are a Master Teacher but accepting an Aide job request, you will have a per hour level bonus. The higher level you are, the higher the bonus will be. Please note NOT ALL SCHOOLS PAY THIS BONUS.

If available, the request will show the amount of bonus per hour on top of the request. And your estimated earning includes that.

Flexible Request

Some jobs are Flexible. This means school director will confirm with you even you are available for only part of the requested hours. When click Accept, you will specify your available time windows.

For Flexible jobs, you need to specify your proposed Start and End time window. If school director confirmed it, this will be your assignment's new Start and End time.

If the school director selects you, you will receive a text message for confirmation. If you are not selected by school for a job, you will also receive a text message about the cancellation. This means the job is already fulfilled. That job will be removed from your calendar.

Once confirmed, your employment calendar will be updated. In rare cases that school director didn’t confirm any teachers in ONE hour, that job will be canceled and removed from your calendar.

Please arrive 5-10 minute before the job starts. This gives school directors some time to verify and process your paper work.

Schools require you to keep track of in/out (work/lunch) time. You can do it through the automatic start/stop timer. Different schools may have different instructions for break/lunch. Always check with school director or lead teacher about when it would be a good time for break/lunch time.

Our time entries are for billing purpose. California Labour Law requires you to take a 10 minute break every 4 hours. Those breaks are paid time. Please include them in your time entries. For example, if you started working at 8:00 am. Then you took a 10 minutes break. After the break you worked 2 more hours before leaving at 12:10 pm. You only need to input ONE entry 8:00am - 12:10pm as the 10 minutes break are also paid time.

You can also manually add time entry. Please be aware no single work entry can be more than 12 hours according to the Law. This will cause timesheet to be returned and could affect payment for that week.

Our timeTracking time accurately and timely is very important. You are paid for the hours, after school director approves the timesheet.

Some jobs are only a few hours or a few days. You need to submit the timesheet when the job is done. The submit button will be enabled at that time. Some jobs take more than one week, you need to submit a timesheet every week in order to be paid weekly. The submit button will be enabled after Friday in that case. Once a timesheet is submitted, school director will review and approve it. And that’s how we can process your payment. In case your timesheet are rejected, please try reach out to school manager through phone or email first and resubmit your updated timesheet.

Congratulations! Your payment is on the way. Now it’s time to do it again and earn more money!

Substitute teachers/aides will be give a Overall Rating (1-5 star)from the school director for the time of employment. Additionally, school director can rate teachers on the following four sub-areas:

• * Safety and Compliance
• * Classroom Management
• * Record Keeping
• * Punctual On Time

School director can also write additional comments on the feedback.

Once an employment is completed, school director will receive a review invitation through email by Iducator to rate the substitue. Teachers/Aides will be rated for each employment.

Rating is an criteria school directors use to select substitues. Keeping it high will increase your chance to be selected by school. Being punctual on time and keeping good communication with the school will help you get good ratings from school.

When schools make a substitute request, the request is broadcasted to registered teachers based on the distance of your address and the school location. Erroneous or outdated address will may cause missed request

Our data shows school directors are more like to select teachers/aides have “Teacher Experience” filled out.

School directors usually make their selection fairly quickly. Respond quickly increase your chance of getting selected by school.

Refer your friends is the easiest way to make more cash without even work in the classroom. When a teacher signed up with your refer code, both you and the joining teacher will be eligible for extra $100 bonus. Keep in mind that the joining teacher will have to meet all the terms (including the amount of hours worked for Iducator) before you can get paid.

Since school directors have up to one week to approve your timesheet, submitting timesheet sooner will get you paid sooner. If your employment is short than one week, you should submit the timesheet as soon as the employment is completed. If you have a employment spanning multiple weeks, you should submit one timesheet at the end of each week. And you should submit your last timesheet as soon as you completed your employment. It is ok to submit empty timesheet.

While you can enter time sheet manually, the easiest way to fill out the timesheet is to use the Stop Timer. Log into Iducator and under Timesheet you can find the Start timer. When you start work, click on Start Timer and for break or end of the employment on the day, log back on and in Timesheet click Stop Timer. Your time entries will be filled out automatically.