Know what I like? Having at least one little chance to cover a class for a 7th grade teacher who is out for the day.
The reason:
it puts me in the room with students who will be mine the following year - kids who (unfortunately at my school) have had no exposure to what it feels like to be part of a classroom where the teacher - not the students - is in control and calmly maintains order at all times.
Some classrooms on campus can be a bit chaotic in the case of the teacher who never taught before or who taught at a school where there was inadequate teacher training for student behavior management.
Subbing in 7th grade for a day certainly doesn't mean the students become perfect angels anytime they're in my presence, but it does give them at least a heads up that things will be quite different when they arrive for 8th grade Literature and 8th grade English.
Some classrooms on campus can be a bit chaotic in the case of the teacher who never taught before or who taught at a school where there was inadequate teacher training for student behavior management.
Subbing in 7th grade for a day certainly doesn't mean the students become perfect angels anytime they're in my presence, but it does give them at least a heads up that things will be quite different when they arrive for 8th grade Literature and 8th grade English.
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