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The Thankless Life Of The Substitute |
| by Teacher - 01/23/2007 |
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| "Substitute teaching is one of the most thankless jobs on the planet. Characterizing it as going into hostile territory with a set of plans that may or may not show up and is written based solely on someone else’s philosophy is a pretty accurate" |
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description of what substitute teaching is like on a day to day basis.
Every day, substitute teachers wake up without knowing where they will be headed the next day, hopping from school to school and filling in when needed for a never-ending stream it seems of teachers and students. Yet, after filling this invaluable position each day, ensuring that students are not robbed of any of the education they desperately need in this day and age, substitute teaching is still looked down on by some as little more than temporary secretarial work.
This could not be farther from the truth and the sooner that administrators and full-time teachers realize that substitute teaching is largely the glue that holds together the entire structure of a school, the sooner substitute teaching will get the respect (and subsequent pay increase) that it deserves. Without substitute teaching as an option, teachers would never be able to take off, organizational budgets would skyrocket with additional full-time help and students would suffer from interruptions in learning.
Add in the fact that many times teachers fail to leave lesson plans for substitute teachers and you get a picture of what life is like for many of these substitute teachers. Coming in cold and teaching based off of what a child tells you is what the class has been studying is no way to run a classroom but in substitute teaching, it is often the case.
Do your substitute teaching corps a favor and not only complete lesson plans when possible, but say thank you for the invaluable service they provide, maintaining the kind of continuity that young children need to learn difficult concepts.
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