If I could change one thing...

[NuttySupplier]

I'd make sure there was a box of tissues in every classroom!

[GreatGrandDad]

Get every school to put on line its "Information for Supply Teachers".

Very often, Capita would tell me at the beginning of the week which schools they were sending me to. To be able to print off the information and get it in my head over a mug of tea on the evening before would have been so much better than trying to get a grip on it during a staff briefing.

And to enter the school with a map of it already in hand would be helpful.

[NuttySupplier]

What an excellent
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(would be good for new parents etc too to see this sort of thing!) and would be very easy to set up for most schools!

[melanie42]

For every school to have information for supply teachers! In some schools I've just been shown the classroom and left to it - not knowing where the staffroom is, where
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s are, behaviour policy, timetable... In one school, the secretary didn't even show me the classroom, just dumped me in the staffroom.

[Mister]

In an ideal world:

All the classrooms would be numbered, & in big schools (like secondaries) the corridors would have signposts too, saying what rooms were in the different directions.

The plan for the day would have all the lesson times in it, & the name of the teacher I'm covering. Secondaries usually do this, (they're more used to supplies), but primaries often leave you chasing around for this vital information!

The pupils would all have exercise books to do their work in, you wouldn't be told they're working 'on paper' (which regularly isn't in the room so you have to keep a reserve just in case). Then, in lessons like RE & PSHE the more disruptive pupils won't be encouraged to think they can just doodle on the paper, or (in worst case scenarios throw it round the room), because the regular teacher would see what work they'd done, or not done! If it's on paper many give an impression they know it won't be seen after the lesson, & the worst pupils don't give a damn about the lesson, making it much harder to get discipline!

Mobile phones & Ipods would be banned from all lessons.

The pupils would all be polite & well behaved & keen to do the work! Yes, OK, I can dream!!

[NuttySupplier]

Originally Posted by Mister
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Mobile phones & Ipods would be banned from all lessons.

I'm
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! Are they not banned from all lessons??!!! Wow!

[ruby_tuesday]

I leave detailed plans and books to work in!

And there are definitely no ipods or phones allowed!

I did make them watch Sir Terry and Aled today though, so that's probablly worse than them having ipods!

:)

[Mister]

Originally Posted by NuttySupplier
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I'm
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! Are they not banned from all lessons??!!! Wow!

In some secondaries it's probably one of the hardest things to deal with. No, they're definately not banned in some schools, (wish they were). Life as a supply was a lot easier before the wreched things were invented!!

[NuttySupplier]

How can they justify allowing them into schools?!

Ruby, you're evil!! Mine are watching a bit of Fantasia on Friday, they think that's bad enough!

[ruby_tuesday]

I love Terry!

I have got the Polar Express and The Snowman for them though.

Did you know.... Aled Jones didn't sing Wal
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in the Air in the film? It was some other old choir boy.