r/SubstituteTeachers

Hey! I'm almost done with my SETT, and I plan on applying at my county soon.

Issue is, I'm really young. I'm 18, and I just graduated high school. BUT I've been taking college courses since I was 15 and I'm about to get my associates degree this fall. (My county's minimum requirement for subs is a HS diploma.)

I'm wondering if anyone has any advice to make myself look more prepared or mature for the job. Any advice would be great.

Took a drama job at a local middle school for a teacher I knew had a student teacher. I show up and the secretary tried to move me to a remedial ELD class. I looked her in the eyes and said "I apologize, if the position I agreed too is no longer available, I will be more than happy to go home for the day" anyway guess whose watching the student teacher lead the drama class now

Is anyone working on the last day of school? If so, what’s your assignment and what are you doing?

I’m covering for a PE teacher and they’re just having me help out where I’m needed. However, I’ve just been sitting around for an hour lol.

9th graders still have the middle school attitude in them, you can just tell they are freshmen
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I’ve been subbing for this school district for the past year and a half. I’ve been to this school many times over. I usually mark attendance by checking off who’s here with check marks and absents with A’s. Since it’s testing I only marked off who was here as I don’t get a list of who’s in testing. Sent it down and they called and asked if the check marks meant who’s present. I said yes and apologized because I guess it was wrong? I’m just wondering how I should then mark my next class attendance? Should’ve asked when they called but I just assumed that check marks were obvious for who’s here. Maybe I’ll mark with a P? Can’t just mark absentees because again we’re in testing mode.

Hello! I am a sub of 1.5 years, and I’m aware this is a normal issue. Some teachers call out day of and the sub coordinators scramble to get coverage in the morning….

I am a fully certified visual arts teacher who is subbing while chasing that full time art teaching gig. The high school sub coordinator sometimes texts me and tells me that one of their art teachers is out the day of, and you’d think that’s my cue to swoop in and save the day, but…. I’m already scheduled for an assignment. Sometimes two, for AM and PM at different schools. Sooooo it’s awkward.

In my district, it’s also mandatory to call the school(s) day of if you cancel your assignment, which only adds to the awkwardness IMO.

So, what should I do? I really really want to take the art job every time, but I feel guilty thinking about calling my assignments and telling them I’m backing out. 🥲🥲🥲🥲

Yesterday a fight almost broke out, outside my classroom with a student of mines.

I asked my student what was going on and she told me she's been getting harassed and bullied by this one kid.

Long story short , one of the APs happened to pass by and I explained to him about what had just happened. I told him I was gonna write down a report about this incident and email the AP's.

I haven't had no response from neither one of them , I don't know if it's just me or the school lacks "real" leadership. I also feel bad for my student because she was really anxious and nervous about this whole situation.

EDIT : Long term sub

I'm PhD scholar who teaches accountancy to 11-12th. Currently I'm doing part time job in private school where I teach Accountancy, and I have 3 year experience in tution. I want a WFH job to manage my finances, please help.

I was unexpectedly deactivated by Kelly Education for following their safe touch policy and a principal got upset with me and accused me of not interacting with kids. I’m so tired of this company. I’ve heard infinitely bad things about them—one report from a liar and you’re out for a long period of time. Starla Trail is absolutely horrible, doesn’t respond to anything, always out of office, does no work at all. I don’t know what these people do all day, never respond, always out of office. I remember when we contracted directly with the school district and didn’t have to deal with all this red tape. I want to get the staffing agency to get out of the districts…

I usually see these posts from other substitutes saying they got banned and thought that would never happen to me. I'm a good sub! I've done this forever! I leave my classrooms clean, the lesson plans done, the kids in one piece! But today ESS sent me an email saying I was banned from a school.

The email mentioned my accidentally projecting the teacher's scribbled in notes about student behaviors on the projector screen when trying to project the lesson plans. Which I did. Totally fair but it was an accident that lasted for a few seconds before I caught it. We all make mistakes. But they also mentioned other issues with my classroom behavior and it's driving me crazy because I don't know what it could possibly be. The day was so smooth I don't even really remember the assignment. It was a pretty easy day with a really good class. Nobody had to come in and help quiet the class down and there were no aides in the classroom who had to take over. I've had dozens of jobs that were much harder and for which I feel I didn't do a good enough job with.

Now I'm completely paranoid about my jobs and I'm a little freaked out. The email came with a reminder about all the things that makes a good sub and I do all of it. I always follow the lesson plan and I always walk around and I always am respectful to the students. I will probably worry the next time an aide or other teacher has to come in and help with classroom management. What happens if I make another mistake? What if a major issue happens during the day and I can't stop it? Will I get in trouble again? Will I start getting banned from other schools? Will I get in trouble with ESS? Or should I just chalk it off to the school? Or just one of those days? Maybe it just comes with subbing for a long time, that you'll eventually get in trouble at least once?

Heyyyooo subs! Some of you may be off already, but how so everyone doing with the last couple of weeks of school?

And if you’re off, I hope you are getting a healthy start to this break. Maybe new work, vacation, spending time with family… :-)

I’m a 22 year old male sub, I’ve been getting hit on by a lot of regular staff. It feels like I was just in HS yesterday. In guy culture it’s right on man! And so on but, honestly it feels weird getting hit on by teachers. Has anyone gone through this before?!

I just wanted to tell yall because I feel like you’d understand where I’m coming from. Thanks for listening to my Ted talk 😂😭

So sorry guys but I’m subbing today and the teacher I’m subbing for was not in her classroom when I got to her class (I’m subbing for a half day sub assignment) so teacher was not in the room but when she eventually did get here she was so rude and being passive aggressive/sarcastic asf and then proceeds to tell me I need to make copies of several papers (27 to be exact) of like 5 papers (two of which) were packets with both front and back sides??? And I’m thinking is she really forreal? Like how do you put that on me to do and at the last minute, like how inconsiderate and unprepared!!! I went to make some of the copies and I didn’t give asf about the rest, next time make the copies yourself!! I honestly think it was unacceptable and wrong for her to think I would do all those copies….anyway!! The students are chill and we’re going to make the most of today with what we have and she can do the copies herself when she returns…I tell ya these teachers make things so difficult when it doesn’t have to be, but definitely won’t be subbing for this teacher again….totally unacceptable behavior!!

Like. All of the toes.

This was the 7th grade 😭

Tomorrow is the last day of school and I fear what horrors await for me. Please share your end of the year stories all I can feel better about whatever that was.

Sub teacher with mostly HS experience, finished my first day of middle school today…

At home, *decompressing.*

I don’t have the same problem in High School, to the same level, of *students talking while I’m talking.* Non- stop chatter. Non- stop, compulsive talking— I’ll make dead eye- contact with students, engage them, tell them to stop talking, and they’ll continue to talk— they’ll even say “I’m not talking, I wasn’t talking.”

Seriously?

Delusional, lying children. They say they aren’t talking when they are— do they know they’re talking? Do they have self- awareness?

I told several classes today that they lacked ‘basic life skills,’ because they do. It is a *basic* life skill, to *not talk* when *someone else* is *talking*. Especially when that someone has been granted *authority* over you, is the *person-in-charge.*

Why do I feel like in the school system (and society at large) the adults are not the ones in charge? Why does it feel like it’s rather the students— the children? Should a teacher not in fact, be the person IN- CHARGE of a classroom? It’s absolutely backwards, bonkers, upside down.

I straight- up told a student he was a liar today, as someone from the office was coming to take him out of class— I gave him 3 or 4 chances, asking if he’d need to be sent out— patient, low, slow and steady tone (I am quite good at emotional detachment, and maintain ‘zen.’) Moved him to a different seat, which he refused to go to, only finally acquiescing after I’d told him to leave, and called the office when he wouldn’t— *I was going to the other desk, I was moving.*

No, you weren’t. You were talking when I was talking, would not stop when told, would not move desks when instructed to, and would not leave the class when instructed to go to the office.

You are a liar.

I told the office he “wasn’t ready to be in class” because he wasn’t. A student who will not follow instructions has no business being a student— thats the whole game right? Teachers teach— they instruct— if a student cannot be instructed, why is that student a student at all?

The system is seriously broken. We have *got to* get our priorities straight, and get back to basics.

*END RANT*

So this is a bit of personal post, but Ive been preparing for this and things didn’t align perfect for me to move out! However, I’m doing it anyway and don’t have a job lined up.

Anyone been through something similar? I’m anxious, but my situation is also not sustainable!!! :( mental health wise. I gottaaa gooooo ✨😭 encouragement or hope is welcome! Thanks in advance!!

Has anyone else ever been in a situation where your class has a co teacher but that co teacher is actually so horrible to the children and does nothing but yell at them for doing normal things? These kids kept wanting to give me hugs or smile at me and she’d yell at them for it. I’m never going back there because I cannot handle that kind of energy, but those poor kids omg