Substantial Classrooms

Redesigning the Substitute Teaching Experience

Jill Vialet, Amanda von Moos

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN: 9781119663652
• eBook ISBN: 9781119663836
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

Transform Your School's Substitute Teaching Experience

Just like everything else, substitute teaching is about to undergo a big change. In Substantial Classrooms: Redesigning the Substitute Teaching Experience, authors Jill Vialet and Amanda von Moos usher in a new era of innovation in substitute teaching. Threaded with concrete and actionable ways to improve the experience of substitute teaching for administrators, students, and the teachers themselves, Substantial Classrooms is a leading voice for innovation and renewal in substitute teaching. Instead of viewing substitute teachers as a placeholder in an educator's absence, this book encourages readers to view substitute teachers as vital resources that diversify the typical classroom learning experience. While other books look only at making a bad situation bearable, this book re-examines substitute teaching with an eye towards reinventing it as a unique and valuable part of students' educational experience.

Key themes of Substantial Classrooms include:

• How substitute teaching works today
• Applying human-centered design to create change in legacy systems like substitute teaching
• Concrete and inspiring examples of different models for substitute teaching, for example, reimagining it as paid fieldwork for aspiring teachers.
• In addition to these key themes, every chapter includes stories and techniques from dynamic and innovative educational practitioners.

This must-have guide to substitute teaching can improve schools everywhere and revolutionize the way educators, school and district leaders, colleges, and community partners view the experience of substitute teaching as a lever to positively impact schools.

Index

• A
• AARP Foundation's Back to Work 50+ program, 163
• After-school staff, substitute teaching and
  • C4C and, 159
  • eligibility issue in, 162
  • management in, 162
  • resources fresh look in, 159
  • schedule structure in, 162
  • student relationships in, 159
  • Taylor, M., volunteer mentors program in, 160–161
• “A-ha” moments, 100–101
• Alameda County Office of Education's Integrated Learning Specialists Program, 45
• Application process, 81–82, 144
• The Art of Innovation (Kelley, T.), 194
• Assumption storming, 114
  • assumption discussion in, 178–179
  • call out use in, 178
  • problem or information process in, 178
  • teachers and school administrators example of, 179
  • writing and posting in, 178

• B
• Belliston, Larry, 194
• Berman, Todd
  • relationship building of, 45
  • on structure and consistency lack, 44
  • on sub training, 44
  • subbing breakthrough of, 45
  • as visual artist, 44
• Both, Thomas, 193
• Brainstorming
  • analogous situations approach in, 182, 183
  • constraints approach in, 182–183
  • innovative solution generation in, 182
  • key rules for, 182
  • sub backpack example in, 183
• Brown, Tim, 194
• Bruce Mau Design, 194
• “Buddy teacher” system, 74
• Burnett, Bill, 194
• Burnham, Megan, 51–52, 69–70

• C
• C4C. See Coac...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Introduction
• How Substitute Teaching Works Today
• Start Where You Are
• Design Lab
• Opportunities
• The Commencement Chapter
• Resources
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Index
• End User License Agreement