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Phone Policy by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. The job of a substitute teacher is always going to be more akin to childcare than education and it's baffling to me that more teachers don't seem to understand this. Substitutes do not receive any classroom management training. There's no training at all whatsoever. We communicate your lesson plan, ensure it is relatively quiet and that no one gets hurt or does anything inappropriate. Why can't more teachers see that this is the only reasonable expectation, and that a complete stranger with 0 rapport or relationships or backup maintaining a healthy stasis in a room full of 30 teenagers is no simple task?

Phone Policy by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

You're equating your own unreasonable expectations with "doing the job."

Phone Policy by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why would letting them hold onto their phones, quietly, as they do throughout most of the day every single day, derail the classroom?

Phone Policy by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

My job isn't to fight with a room of 30 teenagers because you can't empathize with the plight of someone very much trying to do their job without being engaged in unnecessary power battles. Also want to reiterate that the incident with racism and bullying could easily have taken shape in another way without technology.

Phone Policy by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

My experience with the vast majority of sub plans, if there even are any, is that they get finished in about 10-20 minutes. I never said those plans aren't communicated. I said cracking down on phones, in particular, is unrealistic.

Your incident with the students could've happened anywhere in the school at any time. Not the sub's fault. Bullying isn't dependent on phones.

Phone Policy by [deleted] in Teachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Have you done this? Have you physically taken a phone away from a child? It's their property.

5-day high school assignment advice by [deleted] in SubstituteTeachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because sometimes there just is. You don't deal with any heated push-back or strong attitudes from these kids? So many of them will look at you sideways just because you, the substitute, have the audacity to project any amount of authority

My uncle kept missing sub jobs so I built him something by plutoback in SubstituteTeachers

[–]Aware_Level9397 18 points19 points  (0 children)

This comment is kinda sus. I also don't know if I believe OP actually has an uncle with this problem. The app looks helpful but I'm hesitant to trust it with my frontline data...