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Staff and classes

Teachers who are both classroom and specialist

A teacher can hold a class and teach a specialist subject. Enter both roles and Bell Path keeps them from colliding.

Setting it up

  1. 01Add the teacher once on the staff step with their full working days.
  2. 02Assign them to their class on the classes step as normal.
  3. 03On the subjects step, also assign them as a teacher of their specialist subject, and restrict which classes they teach it to if it is not all of them.

Bell Path splits the person internally into a classroom role and a specialist role so it can schedule both without double-booking them, then presents them as one person again in the timetable and every export.

What to watch

  • The specialist sessions they teach are time away from their own class, so their class needs covering in those slots.
  • They still have their own planning-time entitlement as a classroom teacher.
  • If you set their specialist days to none, the specialist role is dropped entirely and the subject silently loses a teacher. Always set the days.

Last updated 25 July 2026

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Dual-Role Teachers: Classroom and Specialist | Bell Path Help