How to Break Into Substitute Teaching

Substitute teaching is a flexible and rewarding job. Substitute teachers make their own schedules and have little or no take home work. Here is the easiest path to break into a fun and challenging field.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Research if there are any temporary staffing agencies in your areas that have an education department. An education department will staff substitutes in the same way one would staff a temp at an office. These agencies will only send temps to private and charter schools--no public schools.

2. Send your resume to one of these staffing agencies and call to follow up. When going into your interview dress professionally.

3. Get fingerprinted by the Board of Education. Fingerprinting will allow you to also work in pre-schools, which opens up many more opportunities.

4. Once you are placed in schools on a day to day basis, be sure to introduce yourself to the principal and the principal's assistant. Usually these are the people that book you as a substitute and relationships with these people are essential. If you develop a good relationship with a school then they will request you regularly, providing a healthy balance between flexibility and stability.

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on 12/17/2008 You forgot to mention that after each job assignment,the substitute teacher is evaluated on their performance.