Course Content for Emergency Substitute Sessions
- Requirements, policies, and practices of:
- US Department of Education/Pennsylvania Department of Education
- Your responsibilities - Forms, clearances, fingerprints
- No Child Left Behind
- Academic standards
- Career and work standards
- PA state assessment — PSSA
- Students with special needs
- School District
- Process for application
- Who to contact
- When to contact
- Intermediate Unit 1
- What is an Intermediate Unit?
- Process for application
- Who to contact
- Aesop automated system for subbing
- Working with students with special needs
- Getting Started
- Materials
- Resources
- School locations
- Commonly asked questions
- Suggestions from current subs
- How to prepare yourself
- Getting the call
- What to do if the call comes late in the morning
- Lesson Plans
- Plan components
- Following the plan
- What to do if there isn't one
- What to do once it's completed
- Summarizing the day for the teacher
- Individualized Education Plans — IEPs for students with special needs
- Classroom observations — seeing plans in action
- Classroom Management — What Is Discipline?
- Your beliefs
- Effective Behavior strategies
- Meeting needs
- Goals of misbehavior and corresponding interventions
- Expectations
- Prevention techniques
- Consequences/punishment/replacement skills
- Setting limits effectively
- Avoiding traps
- Reporting requirements
- Instructional Strategies — It's more than lecture!
- K-W-L charts
- Visual organizers
- Brainstorming
- Mapping
- Think-Pair-Share
- RAPS and LAPS
- Differentiated Instruction
- Flexible groups
- Varied questions
- Students with IEPs — adaptations, etc.
- Teaching a Lesson — Before you get out there…Teach us
- Every participant is required to teach a 10 minute lesson
- Using the outline for effective lesson planning
- Demonstrating effective classroom management strategies
- Employing one or more of the instructional techniques
- Subject of choice
- Finalizing the Paperwork
- In the final session of the series, all participants will meet with representatives of the Human Resources department to:
- Hand in all completed paperwork for PDE requirements
- Make arrangements to meet with these representatives if additional time is needed for completion
