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O'Connor, Kevin – Principal, 2009
Schools and districts routinely recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teachers to ensure that students receive the best learning opportunities. However, even if one's school employs highly qualified full-time teachers, it is important to acknowledge that substitute teachers also have a significant impact on the education of students. One…
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers, Principals, Teacher Qualifications, Administrator Responsibility
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Jenkins, Kathy; Smith, Howard; Maxwell, Tom – Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education, 2009
The Educational Alumni Support Project (EdASP) indicated that there is an urgent need for the teaching profession to support casual beginning teachers (CBTs). The EdASP that was carried out at the University of New England provided online support for primary and secondary beginning teachers, yet the majority of postings were submitted by CBTs. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teaching (Occupation), Substitute Teachers, Beginning Teachers
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de Vries, Peter – Action, Criticism, and Theory for Music Education, 2010
In this article the author explores two aspects of his identity as an educator: (1) his identity as a classroom music teacher back teaching at Somerset Primary school; and (2) his identity as a music teacher educator upon his return to full-time university employment following six months of substitute teaching, including the block of teaching at…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Identification (Psychology), Musicians
Gresham, Jeanie; Donihoo, John; Cox, Tanisha – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
Skillful substitute teachers are critical to student achievement, especially in today's high-stakes accountability environment. Because teachers are absent from duty, some for short periods of time and others for lengthy time frames, schools may find it difficult to meet high academic and accountability standards without prepared substitute…
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers, Accountability, Change Strategies, Educational Strategies
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Sharer, Timothy – Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 2009
Several problems exert force on teachers just entering the profession including mandated testing, public reporting, and the loss of the flexible contexts teacher preparation institutions had for developing undergraduate teacher candidates. Teacher training institutions are scrambling to implement more effective ways to prepare teachers without…
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers, Student Teaching, Beginning Teachers, Teacher Effectiveness
Heilig, Julian Vasquez; Jez, Su Jin – Education Policy Research Unit, 2010
Teach For America (TFA) aims to address teacher shortages by sending graduates from elite colleges, most of whom do not have a background in education, to teach in low-income rural and urban schools for a two-year commitment. The impact of these graduates is hotly debated by those who, on the one hand, see this as a way to improve the supply of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Rural Schools, Low Income, Educational Objectives
Speas, Carol M. – Wake County Public School System, 2010
In 2007-08, the WCPSS teacher absence rate was 10.3 days, slightly higher than a national rate of 9.5 days in 2004-05 but lower than the 11.3 to 14.6 days reported in large school districts more recently. In comparison with other studies, WCPSS teachers averaged smaller proportions of personal and sick leave days, slightly more annual leave days,…
Descriptors: Teacher Attendance, Public School Teachers, Incidence, Academic Achievement
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Yahui, Ran; Cuiqiu, Bao – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
"Teaching practice through substitute teaching" is an educational innovation with Chinese characteristics. It is a model of aid that is effective when applied to the educational and teaching resources of the poverty-stricken regions and also serves as an important reform in the internship system of normal university students. The priority of…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Educational Innovation, Substitute Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Stevens, Thelma K. – Clearing House, 1969
The typical substitute teacher program is loosely organized, inefficient, and ineffective. (CK)
Descriptors: Substitute Teachers
Brandvik, Mary Lou; McKnight, Katherine S. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2011
This unique time-saving book is packed with tested techniques and materials to assist new and experienced English teachers with virtually every phase of their job from lesson planning to effective discipline techniques. The book includes 175 easy-to-understand strategies, lessons, checklists, and forms for effective classroom management and over…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Writing Assignments, Educational Technology, Substitute Teachers
Byer, John L. – Online Submission, 2008
This article dealt with methods for making substitute teaching more effective. The purpose was to articulate a sequential method for maximizing the effectiveness of substitute teaching while providing substitutes with a comprehensive method for diligently and flexibly earning respect and using reflection to continually improve substitute teaching.…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Substitute Teachers, Management Development, Teaching Methods
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Xingzhi, Shanxi Tao – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
This article reports the achievement of a nine-year program in which students from Xinzhou Normal College participate in semester-long substitute teaching in disadvantaged schools in a poverty-stricken area of Shanxi province. The substitute teaching, which constitutes an important part of the 411 Project by Xinzhou Normal College, takes place in…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Schools, Professional Training, Substitute Teachers, Investigations
Donnelly, Laura – Teacher Magazine, 2007
This article profiles six educators who have taught for as long as two generations. These educators are the following: (1) Hazel Wilson--teaching 47 years; (2) Agnes Zeiger--teaching 61 years; Rose Gilbert--teaching 51 years; (4) Ellie Johnson--teaching 52 years; (5) Roy Clare--teaching 48 years; and (6) Carrie Hansen--54 years in education. These…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Substitute Teachers, Career Choice, Teaching (Occupation)
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Changying, Wang – Chinese Education and Society, 2007
Ever since reform, opening up, and the development of the market economy, teacher attrition has reached an alarming proportion. In Liaoning province, more than 6,300 or 50 percent of the teachers either took early retirement or changed careers between 1979 and 1985. As a result, secondary and elementary schools in some regions have not been able…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Teacher Persistence, Educational Quality, Educational Change
Cottle, Amy E. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study examined whether a quality professional development course, "Infusing Technology", influenced the use of technology by elementary and middle school teachers in West Virginia. "Infusing Technology" was designed to help school-based team learning communities use technology in their instruction while engaging students…
Descriptors: Focus Groups, Computer Uses in Education, Interviews, Educational Technology
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