This post is for all of you that have a SMART Board or other brand of Interactive Whiteboard in your classroom. Did you know that you can use a “Koosh Ball” to activate your board and, thus, create a kinesthetic learning opportunity for your students? Before I graduated with my B.Ed I spent a lot of time substitute teaching in a Kindergarten class near our home. As part of their morning calendar time, students reviewed months/days/years by activating review prompts on their SMART Board with a “Koosh Ball”. These rubbery balls are the perfect sensory tools if you have… Read More
Substitute Teacher Binder FREEBIE!
Yesterday I decided to take a break from my curriculum planning and start working on some of the organizational elements for my classroom. Having worked casually as a substitute teacher for the past two years, I decided to create myself a Substitute Teacher Binder to have available when I am not in the classroom. I wasn’t feeling the traditional duotang folder so I decided to make something much more pretty and share it with you! This document features 7 different section dividers to organize everything for your Substitute Teacher: – Cover Page – Feedback Forms (Complete… Read More
Substitute Teaching in "T-Division" 4
Last Friday I was very fortunate to be called in to substitute teach in “T-Division” again! If you missed some of my earlier posts I am working full-time with Children’s disABILITY Services this summer but I asked for every Friday off so I could still have opportunities to substitute teach and network within the school divisions in our area. In our area, school is done this week so I knew that Friday would be my last time to substitute teach this year and I am really happy I was able to get one last day before school is out.… Read More
Substituting in "T-Division" 3
On Friday I was able to have another substitute teaching day in “T-Division”! I have already had some experience with the division as I was able to substitute teach in an English classroom and in a Grade 2/3 classroom in their French Immersion school a few weeks ago. This time, however, I was in a K-12 school only about 15 minutes from our house. I was so excited because this is a school that I might be applying for a job in next spring! (I have actually even applied to do one of my student teaching placements in this school… Read More
Substitute Teaching in "M-Division"
Now that I have started my summer job(s) full time I unfortunately do not have as much availability to substitute teach as I did previously. Thankfully my employer was willing to be flexible with my hours so that I could have every Friday off in order to substitute teach in either “T-Division” or “M-Division”, which are both within driving distance of our home! Now some people may find it weird that I am choosing to take one day off work just to go to another job but it was really important to me to substitute teach and get to… Read More
Substituting in "T-Division" 2
Yesterday I was very happy to be substituting in “T-Division” again. I was actually able to be in the same small school as I was in on Tuesday, only this time I was in a Grade 2/3 split class of 10 students. After my substituting experience on Tuesday, @MsBarteaux shared with me that when she was working as a substitute she would take photographs, with permission, of all the things she loved in a classroom to keep for future reference. I thought this was a wonderful idea! I mean, in the past I would take note of things that… Read More
Substituting in "T-Division"
Its been a week and a half since I left “C-School” and I’ve been missing the classroom so much! Thank goodness I got called in to substitute teach in “T-Division” for today and Thursday. I had never been to the town before so, like I always do, I left waaayyy too early in an attempt to give myself enough time to find my way around. Fortunately I was only 20 minutes early this time and not 30+ like when I visited “C-School“. The school is a French-immersion school but fortunately I was substituting for the English teacher; which… Read More
Summer Holidays & Substitute Teaching!
Friday was not only my last day of student teaching at “C-School” but it was also my last day of university for this year! We finished up our classes and wrote our final exams at the beginning of March so now that our placements are done we do not return to school until the first week of September. Although I will miss the Grade 5s very much I am already excited about what is to come. I can not believe that I only have ONE more year of school before I can begin applying for teaching positions. All together… Read More