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The Tricks of a Substitute Teacher
When you begin substitute teaching at a high school, you are as a babe wet behind the ears. Even the best of students, the nicest kids, can have a streak of conman in them. And when they see a substitute teacher coming, that streak of conman often gets exercised. For some reason, kids don't like substitute teachers. Perhaps this is because they feel unsettled by someone different and feel more comfortable with someone they deal with every day. For the substitute teacher, identifying the kids is a problem. You don't know their names, you don't know their faces, and you don't know who is really supposed to sit where. Even a seating chart doesn't help when you don't know if the person sitting in a particular chair is the person who is supposed to. And then there are the "hitchhikers," kids who come into a class they don't belong in, pretend they should be there, and spend their time schmoozing with other kids, distracting them from what little studying they are willing to do, and generally disrupting the entire class atmosphere. The teacher first has to go through taking attendance. One way to start is to pass around a piece of paper and have each kid write his or her name on it. You must be RIGHT THERE, however, so you can see which face goes with which signature and to see that no one signs the sheet with a silly name like "Jalapeno" or such. As you pass this paper around and supervise the signing, you put a little dot or mark next to the name(s) of suspected hitchhikers. You then compare a printed class roster, which the attendance office supposedly had prepared for you to pick up at the beginning of the day, with your completed sign-in sheet. You check to see who on the printed list is present and who isn't, marking the ones who failed to sign in as absent. When you discover a name on your sign-in sheet that aren't on your formal list, you spring into action. You ask the kid if he or she is supposed to be in the classroom. At this point, some will say they aren't and will leave. Another technique, which is especially useful when you know five or six kids should not be there, is to go to the telephone and in a loud voice call for security because you have some hitchhikers who need to be written up and escorted to the office. Even seeing you pick up the telephone is often enough to make the hitchikers stand up and leave the room because they know the consequences will be serious if they do not. When a group misbehaves, sometimes you announce that because of this the class now has to play "writeup roulette." You usually get a blank stare at this. You then explain that you are going to write up one or two of the group and have them expelled, but they aren't going to know who this will be until security arrives. At that point you will decide and indicate to security who you wish to have expelled. The element of uncertainty adds a certain thrill to the process that most of them want to avoid. Still another technique is to enlist the aid of some pretty young lady in the class. You write her a note to take to security. The note asks security to return with the young lady and stand outside the door. It tells them that just after she goes back into the classroom, a bunch of hitchhikers are going to leave. When the young lady has brought security to just outside the classroom, you spring the trap. You pick up the phone and say in a loud voice that security needs to come and take away a few hitchhikers. Not wanting to encounter security, they will usually get up and leave the room, walking right into the arms of security. Ah, the joys of being a substitute teacher ! It is a constant struggle to outwit kids who, though perhaps not really bad, are trying to outwit you. |
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