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A Southern California Substitute Teacher
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Hello everybody! I'm a substitute teacher in the Southern California area, and throughout the school year I'll blog on how my school day goes as a middle school and high school sub.
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Sub system made me come late
On this day, Monday June 1, I came late to a class for the first time. However, it wasn't my fault. The subsystem called me and told me to come for a regular 1st period class. However, the teacher had a zero period, and of course, I arrived and th...
Battle of the Sexes and "In ten years I'll be....
On Friday, I subbed high school english, 2 frosh classes and 3 senior ones. The freshmen did a worksheet on Romeo & Juliet. The seniors were a little more interesting. I'll get to that in a moment.It was an assembly schedule and the assembly wasn'...
"Un"silent Reading
As a sub, one of the things that I don't like to see on the lesson plan is "Silent Reading". Almost every class I've subbed were they did "Silent Reading", it was never silent. Many of them don't even read. On Friday, I subbed for a high school En...
Skipping around the Odyssey & Assignments due that period
On Friday, I subbed for an English teacher, and his 9th grade classes were assigned to read "The Odyssey" as they followed along from a CD. The teacher said the CD should be in the same order as the book. However, there was an awkward situation. As...
