High School Substitute Teacher's Guide: You Can Do This!

By: Cherise Kelley

Narrated by: Rebecca Roberts

Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins

Publisher's summary

"You're a high school substitute? Are you crazy? We were so mean to them!" This is a common reaction when I tell people what I do, but I love substitute teaching at the high school level.

I started substitute teaching in 1989, fresh out of college. I was looking for a way to support myself while I took my "fifth year" of college in secondary education classes and did my student teaching. A friend told me, "You have a bachelor's degree, so you can be a substitute." In writing this book, I hope to be as good a friend for you as he was for me. This book explains not only how to get a high school substitute teaching job, but also how to do the job so well that it will be rewarding in and of itself.

If you know a college graduate who is out of a job, tell them about this book. It might help them support themselves in the meantime. Being an excellent substitute can also open the door to a regular full-time teaching position.

Up until the advent of the Internet, most books for substitute teachers consisted largely of worksheets the substitute could photocopy and hand out to students, in the event the regular teacher hadn't left enough work to fill the whole class period. Today, you can instantly find and project one of a million free Internet worksheets. Heck, 99% of today's high school students have phones capable of finding these worksheets.

You won't find worksheets in this book. High school students are too smart to do a substitute's ungraded busy work anyway. Today's high school students crave human interaction. I've seen them get more excited about a classroom discussion than about watching a movie. Times have changed, and I have remained a successful high school substitute teacher by embracing the changing times. Give my book a read and let me show you how to be a good high school substitute teacher who enjoys the job.

©2012 Cherise Kelley (P)2013 Cherise Kelley

Overlap in the recording

The part I listened to was fine. It had good advice that was frequently repeated if you read the whole thing all the way through.

I ended up returning because about half way through the book it was playing two sections at once so you couldn't understand what was being said.

Practical information, good tips

This book had good information and practical tips. Also had tips on how to make money when you’re not subbing. Some of this information is obvious but it’s good to be reminded I would definitely re-listen to this multiple times to help improve my subbing ability.