Human Biology
When I substitute for teachers, I love to look around their rooms and learn from the information displayed on bulletin boards and models, magazines and textbooks. I learn so much …
Teacher-led P.E.
In our elementary schools we have teacher-led P. E. The good thing about this situation is that I can still wear professional clothes when I substitute teach as it is …
Kindergarten Sub
Kindergarten class. You would think it would be easier, right? Twenty-five six year olds…all with new boots and sneakers. How do I know? Because each child told me so as …
English Class
Grammar. Literature. Essays. Writing devices. Story plots. I am in my own personal Heaven. English class, whether I am diagramming sentences with grade school students or reading complex text with …
The Grade School “Brain”
Have you ever encountered the grade school “brain”? Each class usually has one, and this time it is usually a boy. You know the type. The boy who doesn’t need …
Teaching Foreign Languages
As poor as my Spanish and French speaking abilities are, I forget how much more I know than those I am substitute teaching in middle school or high school, so …
The Noise Level
Can I keep every class quiet? Notice that I used the adjective “every” in the preceding sentence. Therefore, the answer to that question is absolutely not. I am a substitute, …
High School P. E. Class
It never ceases to amaze me, when I substitute for a high school physical education class, that the students dressed in their gym uniforms, shorts and white tee-shirts, never want …
The Elementary Class Informant
Grade school is not what it was like when my children went through it about eight years ago. Presently, when I’m called in to substitute for kindergarten through fourth grade, …