This dissertation explores the lived experience of short-term substitute teachers in K-8 public school settings, aiming to deconstruct common assumptions and identify areas for improvement in support systems. A case-selection variant of an explanatory sequential mixed methods design was utilized. In the first phase of the study, quantitative data…

One person's experiences and views of substitute teaching at the elementary level. (IRT)

Presents 25 activities suggested for use by substitute teachers who come in on short notice. (JMB)

Three substitute teachers give six suggestions for making substitute teachers feel more welcome, more effective, and more useful. (MT)

A program to train substitute teachers in New Orleans so that they will be able to meet the needs of students with whom they are unacquainted is presented. (CK)

The author suggests that the substitute teacher prepare a portable collection of materials and lesson plans that can be adapted to each new class. She details the types of materials such a briefcase file should contain. "Sub Center" is a new monthly column for substitute teachers. (SJL)

Describes the experiences of an administrator who secretly substituted in a classroom outside his own school district. Recommendations are made as to how teachers and principals can prepare for substitutes. (SB)

The former Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger, discusses his elementary school experience with a substitute teacher who taught the elements of government in her classroom. Includes discussion of programing on the bicentennial celebration of the Constitution. (MD)

A civil engineer describes his first day as a substitute teacher. Despite detailed lesson plans and good intentions, maintaining an orderly class environment is far from a "piece of cake." Recess duty is an ordeal, and lunch in the shabby teacher's lounge is uninspiring. The biggest benefit is appreciation of what constitutes a full-time teacher's…

Concerns about the equitable treatment and payment of substitute teachers are expressed based on the author's experiences as a substitute teacher. (JL)

Experienced elementary classroom teachers and substitutes discuss planning ahead for a substitute teacher, suggesting a substitute folder which includes any information to be relayed and a substitute activity bag containing lessons and activities. Games and activities that can be adapted for any grade level are described. (SM)

Suggests some techniques that the substitute teacher in the primary grades can employ to both sharpen students' skills and to put their imaginations to constructive use. (DR)

Describes an overseas independent school's efforts to professionalize subtitute teaching by orienting substitutes properly, preparing a helpful handbook and teacher folders, and hiring a full-time floating substitute to ensure prompt, reliable coverage and ongoing assistance of regular teaching faculty. (MLH)

In the days before computers, passing on information to substitutes was difficult. Now teachers can individualize their lesson plans to guarantee that substitute teachers and the students will both have a good day. This article provides some plan-ahead procedures that have worked for the author.

This case study illustrates and expands upon the principle that innovation efforts involve both role change and change in role interrelationships, changes that (ideally) will be supportive of the innovation effort, but which may--if duplication, gaps among roles, or tension arise--weaken or destroy the effort. A planning effort in the Cleveland…