100 Ideas for Supply Teachers: Primary School Edition

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Supply teaching can be very difficult - if it's not the students that are being difficult it's the permanent members of staff. Michael Parry provides one hundred ideas on how to handle the pitfalls of being a supply teacher in a primary school. The first twenty ideas are practical such as how to act in the staffroom and what equipment is needed to get through the day. The remaining sections each deal with a subject and include ideas such as warm up activities and how to carry on the topic if faced with more than one lesson with a class.

Michael Parry worked in Primary Schools for thirty years including working as a supply teacher and also as a Head teacher.

'The recommended website pages are really useful where pupils have ready access to the internet...[The] filler activities...are good and I recommend them to all teachers whose lesson timing is anything less than split second!' Jocelyn Sumner, ACT website -- Jocelyn Sumner "Supply teaching is a distinctive art. Stepping in and taking on a new class is one thing. Making sure of a quality outcome takes something more. Michael Parry provides a guide of how to achieve quality...They provide a thorough checklist of the things that need to be in place to ensure the cover runs smoothly. Thought-provoking chapters have something to say to all teachers...Both supply tecahers, and the schools they work with, will find this a useful book." -- Huw Thomas, Times Educational Supplement (Cymru) 'Useful source of ideas for the target reader.' - Teacher Trainer Journal, 2009