Class Time + Substitute = Waste?
By HOLLY EPSTEIN OJALVO
According to a recent Op-Ed, more than 5% of teachers are absent on any given day, which means that by the time you finish high school, you have had substitutes for nearly a year of your schooling. And few substitutes are trained in either teaching or the curriculum they have to cover. What experiences have you had with substitutes?
In the Op-Ed “The Replacements,” Carolyn Bucior shares the experiences and insights she gained in her two years of substitute teaching:
“Maggie,” a teacher in a Milwaukee public school, was talking about the difficulty of her job, which is something the teachers I know do quite a lot. Then she complained that her sub hadn’t completed the lesson plan she’d been given.