Surveyed Utah teachers, substitute teachers, substitute teacher managers, and principals to examine the perceived quality of substitute teachers, reasons for these perceptions, and potential effects of the perceptions. Substitute teaching was generally assumed to be low quality. Two perceptions driving this assumption were: low pay results in poor…

Offers 11 concrete approaches to improve the quality of substitute teacher programs and provides sample evaluation forms. (MLF)

Describes a generic planning frame for a five-step strategic reading lesson that can be implemented with little or no preparation and, thus, is ideal for substitute teachers. (SR)

This article offers guidelines to first-year special education teachers concerning confidentiality issues, especially in relation to substitute teachers and paraprofessionals. Guidelines address what to do if the teacher is absent and what to do if teaching assistants are absent. Also provided are several Web resources on confidentiality. (DB)

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)

A case study of a school district illustrates how districts solve a substitute teacher shortage by reducing reliance on substitutes and extending full-time teachers' hours. The process allots overwork and work-family conflict to some workers and underemployment and multiple job holding to others. (Contains 38 references.) (SK)

Describes the development of a substitute teacher training program. The process began with surveys of substitute teachers, classroom teachers, and administrators about what such a program would require, following which a committee was formed to make recommendations on program design, materials, and delivery; conduct a literature review on…

This article suggests ways to develop effective substitute special education teacher programs. Suggestions are framed around the Standards for Staff Development created by the National Staff Development Council. Detailed recommendations on substitute training and support systems stress the need to address appropriate context, process, and content.…

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 article is an open letter to English teachers by the author, a second-year graduate student in English education doing substitute teaching. She argues that as a substitute teacher, expectations of her teaching abilities and those of most substitute teachers are incredibly low, and that low expectations often result in low performance. Here,…

This practicum designed and implemented a program to assist child care centers in acquiring substitute staff on a consistent basis. The steps to develop a pool of trained substitute staff and establish a network between the participating centers were: (1) collecting information by way of a questionnaire; (2) obtaining funds; (3) discovering which…

Discussed a program provided by a teacher for teaching substitutes who are faced with the challenge of teaching trainables (IQ below 50). (RK)

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…

This document gives information about maximum rate of pay for substitutes, adult education, extended day programs, and summer school programs, based on the Annual Survey of Certificated Salaries, Salary Schedules, and Salaries Paid Teachers for 1974-1975, conducted by the California Agency for Research in Education. This survey covered districts…

Reports the author's personal experiences as an elementary-grade substitute teacher in the public schools. Points out the value in such experience as preparation for subsequent return to full-time teaching. (BF)