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Tackle your role as substitute teacher with confidence and ease. This essential resource offers field-tested guidance on how to maintain effective classroom and behavior management while making connections with students and advancing classroom content. Packed with strategies, actionable steps, and insights from a variety of guest teachers, this book will prepare you for a day that is both enjoyable and productive. This book will help you: * Walk through the process of becoming a substitute teacher step by step—from submitting the initial paperwork to completing a full school day * Glean insights from current and former substitutes, with clearly defined dos and don'ts of the role * Learn how to make positive impressions with school staff and establish connections with students * Strategize on how to correct misbehavior and redirect attention in rowdy classrooms * Understand classroom structures you may encounter and receive tips and activities tailored to each one Contents: Introduction Chapter 1: Prepare for Success Chapter 2: Start Out Strong Chapter 3: Connect With Students Chapter 4: Make It Manageable and Engaging Chapter 5: Stay Calm in the Storm Chapter 6: End Strong Chapter 7: Thrive and Grow Into Your Future Chapter 8: Keep Going! Keep Growing! References and Resources Index

O Instituto Federal de São Paulo (IFSP) enfrenta desafios significativos no processo de contratação de professores substitutos, que ocorre quando um docente efetivo se afasta, seja por motivos pessoais, por estudos ou outros. Isso impacta diretamente na dinâmica acadêmica e na qualidade do ensino oferecido. Este artigo aborda os desafios no processo de contratação de professores substitutos no IFSP, a partir da abordagem de gestão de processos. Destacam-se questões como a duração prolongada do processo seletivo, a limitação de contratos a dois anos e desafios salariais. O método de pesquisa utilizado é qualitativo, com a técnica de estudo de caso. O estudo propõe melhorias, incluindo a redução de prazos e estratégias de comunicação eficazes. Recomendações envolvem a revisão da legislação, a valorização salarial e o monitoramento contínuo do processo seletivo, visando otimizar a contratação e atender às demandas acadêmicas do IFSP.

We use a unique dataset of student teaching placements in the State of Washington and a proxy for teacher shortages, the proportion of new teacher hires in a school or district with emergency teaching credentials, to provide the first empirical evidence of a relationship between student teaching placements and teacher shortages. We find that schools and districts that host fewer student teachers or are nearby to districts that host fewer student teachers tend to hire significantly more new teachers with emergency credentials the following year. These relationships are robust to district fixed-effects specifications that make comparisons across schools within the same district. This descriptive evidence suggests exploring efforts to place student teachers in schools and districts that struggle to staff their classrooms.

September 13, 2018 We usually have a pile of tissue boxes stacked on top of the filing cabinets in our office, but last week the supply dried up. The Daily Organiser emailed to say that the school had a record number of absences - staff and students were dropping like flies. The kids came in clutching their own tissue boxes and water bottles and agreed that the film idea was a good one.

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is threefold. First, to explore the importance of specific work environment facets for the overall job satisfaction (JS) of primary full-time permanent teachers (PTs) and substitute/temporary teachers (STs). Second, to highlight the similarity or difference in JS patterns among PTs and STs. Third, to provide guidelines for effective evidence-based human resource management (HRM) interventions targeting to boost PTs and STs JS levels by considering: (1) the perceived importance of individual work facets for them and (2) the school's performance in providing a satisfactory work environment.Design/methodology/approachData on overall and important JS facets (i.e. satisfaction with opportunities for self-fulfillment, work intensity/load, salary/income, leadership and collegial relations) were collected from a sample of 438 PTs and STs in Greece. Moreover, MUSA, a method that combines Multi-Criteria Decision (MCDA) and Importance-Performance Analysis (IPA), was applied to uncover the critical work environment facets of PTs and STs overall JS that call for interventions.FindingsThe findings suggest that PTs seem to value, more than STs, the transactional and economic aspects of the school environment. More precisely, on the part of PTs, self-fulfillment and salary/income are the main contributors to their JS, whilst leadership is the least important facet of JS. For STs self-fulfillment and collegial relationships are the aspects of work that contribute the most to their overall JS, whilst salary/income is the least important contributor. The study results further indicate that self-fulfillment is the strong attribute of Greek schools' work environment in boosting TJS regardless teachers' status, whilst salary/income and workload are potential threats.Originality/valueIt is one of the few studies that provide insights into the differing JS patterns of STs and PTs through the application of a MCDA/IPA method. Therefore, it offers evidence-based guidelines that take into consideration both the school's performance (overall and facet JS) and importance of core aspects of the work experience for STs and PTs.

This viewpoint article considers the challenges of adapting mathematics lesson study for early-years practitioners working in pre-school settings.

Future research would examine the effects of the four-day school week on teacher recruitment and retention in multiple districts, expanding data collection to also include urban and suburban school districts. According to Why Rural Matters 2023 (Hartman et al., 2023), the average salary for teachers in rural districts is substantially lower than the average for non-rural districts, even after adjusting for local wage differences (average $76,374 compared with $81,645 for non-rural). [...]our study helps to solidify previous research on a four-day school week (e.g., Turner, Finch & Uribe-Zarain, 2019) by examining the consequences of this new policy in a different state context. Because of our prior relationship with one of the building principals, the school superintendent invited us to observe the fall 2018 school board meeting to hear a presentation by the school leadership team about the possibility of moving the Carver Community School District (CCSD; a pseudonym) to a four-day school week.

Retention of provisional substitute teachers (PSTs) in the teaching profession is an important and timely topic that relates to the sustainability of the schools’ work environment and teaching profession. The present study re-examines these issues using teacher job satisfaction (TJS) as a surrogate variable. More precisely, MUlti-criteria Satisfaction Analysis (MUSA) -a method that combines Multi-Criteria Decision and Importance-Performance Analysis- is applied to a data set of primary school substitute teachers from Greece to assess the contribution of schools’ performance on 5 important aspects of the school environment i.e., opportunities for self-fulfillment, work intensity/load, salary/income, leadership and collegial relations, to overall PSTs JS. The findings indicate that self-fulfillment and collegial relationships contribute the most to PST overall JS, whilst salary/income the least. The results further suggest that self-fulfillment is not only the facet of the work environment that PSTs value the most but also the strong point of the schools’ work environment. The study provides a new strategic perspective on TJS research, as well as evidence-based strategies for improving the quality of work life and attrition rate levels of substitute teachers. Moreover, the theoretical and practical implications of this study are presented and avenues for future research are highlighted.