10 TIPS FOR SUBSTITUTE TEACHERS & THINGS TO CONSIDER | Tips for Subs

Interested in substitute teaching? This video highlights 10 helpful tips for subs and important things to consider before committing.

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[TheTimeCrunchedTeacher]

These are great tips! As a classroom teacher, I’m so appreciative of on-call subs. I’d also recommend for subs to look at teaching in the after school programs for supplemental income. The pay can be really great and it allows you to finish schooling or a credentialing program during the day. Plus, you can make really good connections with the school, students and staff that may help with a job placement down the road.

[thehighllama]

I've been subbing for 5 + years. Another important tip: Always leave a note for the teacher and don't say in your note, "Everything went great. No issues. The class was fun." As one teacher told me, if you don't leave a note specifically addressing the misbehavior of at least one or two students, she knows you're lying. The teacher knows her students. She knows the troublemakers, kids with issues, etc. Be honest. In fact, the only way I ever became a "preferred" substitute for certain teachers, is by being by honest about students and behavior issues. Don't get me wrong. If your honesty comes across as a complaint or crticism, the teacher or school may never want you as a substitute again. I speak from experience. I left an honest 2 page letter to the teacher at one school, and I never received a job request from that school again. Just make sure you let the teacher know of what you've observed, but don't word your note or letter as if you're laying blame on, or criticising, the teacher or school administrators.

[cedriciibullard]

I’ve been a substitute teacher for a year going into my second year. Some rules I didn’t even think about until now. Thank you so much!

[vanessab]

Do yourself a favor and bring your own lunch. It will save you from the long lines, the salad bar which is breeding with germs, and you will avoid tiny portion sizes. After 3 days of eating cafeteria food, I got sick with a really bad cough.

[JeffreyFassett]

Thank you for doing this because nobody wants to help anybody anymore.

[Discovery_and_Change]

I occassionally have recurring nightmares/'trauma' of out of control students who won't listen, won't quiet down, and won't sit down, based on true experiences 🙁

[JpegDog]

Seriously, thanks so much. I’m starting tomorrow at a high school and it’ll be my first time outside of student teaching. I emailed the teacher today, and still haven’t gotten a response but I suppose it’s reasonable that they will have a sub plan prepared for me before hand. I was so nervous but this video made me feel somewhat prepared.

[ok-jbiq]

I love your editing style and great tips

[johnsaldana]

Thank you so much for sharing the helpful 10 tips for being a substitute teacher !! I just got approved, and will be subbing very soon !! Looking forward on your next video. Thanks again !! =)

[stephanieikonomou]

thanks so much! I just graduated college and want to experiment in classrooms !

[tomshowen]

Hired as a full time sub by a district. Third year. Tutoring after school can also help supplement pay.

[WinWithKeshia]

These were great tips. I used to teach full time and now I’m a sub. I agree with all of these tips. ❤

[GTA_]

Some schools just sent you to the cafeteria in the morning with zero time to look over the lesson plan.

[elissa]

I just had my first sub job today with zero training and it was kinda chaos with the 6th graders! I came in an hr into school already as an emergency sub and I really should’ve watched your great tips first.

[DP-xzpm]

Really appreciate this video, best one for me that other ones have not mentioned. Thanks so much!

[HoloHoloAdventures]

I appreciate the information. I’m about to start a sub position and I’m excited about it

[vanessab]

I have been a substitute teacher since Spring of 2017. And it is now Fall 2023. I went to a job as a P.E. coach. They could not find the sub plan so they sent me to Transitional Kindergarten, which was okay.

In the middle of teaching, they came to look for me, and told me I actually needed to go to a school half an hour away, driving. I was going to open up the sub system, but instead I barely opened up my email.

I showed them see this is my school. And they said on special instructions. I went to the other school, but I will never again sign up for P.E. or extra curricular ones. I don't like these shenanigans.

[tomiwafaith]

Hey thanks for this video! It was very helpful for me & thanks for all the great tips. I just got a sub position & I start soon. I’m so excited

[KitKatB]

Thank you! I'm working towards becoming a professor. First step, sub k-12 and TA while in grad school 😂

[honestlygio]

Very true and on pt. I have been Subbing for years and watched this just out of curiosity.