kiraland

i’ve been on a few substitute teaching jobs in the past couple of months and have already learned a great deal. first off i kinda love it. its fun to see different classrooms. to see different teachers ways of doing things especially classroom management. its so nice to spend the day with a bunch of kids. however, i’ve got to admit that it makes me sad that i don’t have my own kids but hopefully one day soon that will change. until then i’m going to soak up these days. each day i make a note of things i want to do in my future classroom (books to buy) which is great. with subbing though i’ve also learned there are some essentials to make the day phenomenal:

1. a whistle: you never know when you go out to recess what shenanigans the kids will get into and its nice to not use you voice hollering for them to quit and get back to playing nice

2. stickers/non-peanut candy: its nice to have some kind of reward in case the class can’t control themselves. i don’t love bribing kids but with some thats your best option (or taking away recess…about the equivalent to the world ending for a small child). and with all the peanut allergies you can never be too careful

3. bandaids: figured this one out the other day when a boy stapled his finger for fun and was dripping blood all over and i couldn’t find the teachers stash….definitely adding those to my bag

4. picture books: its always good to have some books to read. usually the kids have read all the ones in their class…its nice to have something out of the ordinary

and the very most important and best thing i’ve ever done subbing

5. learn every student’s name in the first 5 mins: it blows their mind that you would take the time and that you would want to know them each personally plus it saves you the headache of hollering “hey you get back to work”….best classroom management tip ever.

hopefully someone will have a opening in their school and give me a job based on my substitute skills!