Best Practices for Substitute Teachers

  Creative ideas sometimes come to me when I am half awake and half asleep. I had one of those today. Job and/or Career Pretend Activities. I am planning to sub for the high schools. Most of the time the teacher leaves behind an adequate lesson plan that keeps them busy the entire period, but for those off days, I have come up with a personal plan using materials I found on educational websites especially for high school students. I like jobs, and careers, so I think High School is the perfect time to start thinking about and preparing for jobs after high school or college. My activity will be to have about a 4 page article ready (copied from the educational sites) to be copied for the entire class. Actually this will be 2 activities, but time might not allow both activities in one class. The first part of my activity will be to ask for 2 volunteers in the class, male or female, who are interested in working as administrative assistants, clerical assistants, or secretaries after high s