Setting up a job-share

1. 01Add both teachers on the staff step, each with their own real working days.
2. 02On the classes step, assign both of them to the same class.
3. 03Leave the entitlements as they are. Each person is owed their own release on the days they work.

Because a job-share is two entitlements, not one. Entering the pair as a single fictional full-time teacher produces a timetable that allocates one block of release to a person who is not there on that day, while the other partner receives nothing. It generates cleanly and it is wrong, which is the worst combination.

If a class only receives four specialist sessions a week and its two teachers between them need more than four, the arithmetic will not close for that class. Bell Path will tell you rather than quietly favouring one partner. The fix is usually more specialist coverage for that class, not a change to the job-share.