Join the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System as a Substitute Teacher

Top five reasons to be employed as a substitute instructor in the CT Technical Education and Career System:

  • We value substitutes.  They play a key role in the education process.
  • Substitute daily rate of pay is $155.00.
  • Great students and staff.
  • Seventeen schools across Connecticut that currently employ substitutes.
  • 30 technology/trade areas.

Substituting in the academic subjects

Substitute academic applicants must have a minimum of a bachelor’s degree and submit to required DCF and criminal background checks.

To apply, submit a CT-HR-12 application form, other related documents, and either a copy of your degree or unofficial transcript to BackgroundChecks@cttech.org. The Educational Employer Verification Form will be sent to you if you have current or previous employment in a position where you had contact with children. This form needs to be filled out by you and sent to all places of employment that you had contact with children.

Substituting in the trade subjects

Substitute trade applicants must have a minimum of four (4) years of trade experience as evidenced on the application and must submit to required DCF and criminal background checks.

To apply, submit a CT-HR-12 application form, and other related documents to BackgroundChecks@cttech.org. The Educational Employer Verification Form will be sent to you if you have current or previous employment in a position where you had contact with children. This form needs to be filled out by you and sent to all places of employment that you had contact with children.

How to apply

Complete the CT-HR 12 application form and and other related documents. Reference the list of CTECS schools and bring the application materials to the school you are interested in substitute teaching at; or you may email the forms to BackgroundChecks@cttech.org.

After your application is reviewed, you will be provided with instructions to register for and be fingerprinted.  The Connecticut Technical Education and Career System does not share fingerprint results with any school districts, nor do we accept fingerprint results from other school districts.

The Connecticut Technical Education and Career System is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer.

The CTECS is committed to a policy of equal opportunity/affirmative action for all qualified persons and equal access to Boy Scouts of America and other designated youth groups. The CTECS does not discriminate in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis of age ancestry, color, criminal record (in state employment or licensing)gender identity or expression, genetic information, intellectual disability, marital status, mental disability (past or present) national origin, physical disability (including blindness), race religious creed, retaliation for previously opposed discrimination or coercion, sex (pregnancy or sexual harassment)sexual orientation, veteran status or workplace hazards to reproductive systems, unless there is a bona fide occupational qualifications excluding persons in any of the aforementioned protected classes.

Inquiries regarding the Connecticut Technical Education and Career System’s non discrimination policies and practices should be directed to:

Levy Gillespie
Equal Employment Opportunity Director
State of Connecticut Department of Education
450 Columbus Blvd, Suite 607
Hartford, CT 06103
Levy.Gillespie@ct.gov
(860)-807-2071
(Coordinator for matters related to Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employment and nondiscrimination policies and practices)

Linda Leyhow
Climate, Equity and Title IX Supervisor
Connecticut Technical Education and Career System
39 Woodland St
Hartford, CT 06105
Linda.Leyhow@cttech.org
(860)-807-2106
(Coordinator for matters related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973)

U.S. Department of Education
Office for Civil Rights
5 Post Office Square, Suite 900
Boston, Massachusetts 02109-3921
(617) 289-0111
Fax number (617) 289-0150
TTY/TDD (877) 521-2172
(Matters related to race, color, national origin, age, sex and/or disability)