Thursday, January 17, 2008

Students Don't Learn As Much With Substitutes As With Full-Time Teachers

It took a Duke University professor to figure that out?

As I write this there's only one comment on the subject at Joanne's site. I cannot help but completely agree with that person.

4 comments:

  1. Just another example of money going for a meaningless study to expose the obvious. Publish or perish at its finest!

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  2. Anonymous9:03 PM

    Darren

    What federal bureaucrat blessed off on this piece of crap?!

    OTS, how does the sub program work at your school? Do they have a group of “authorized subs” waiting each morning in case someone threw their back out…is this a district or school level operation?

    Mike

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  3. Subs register to work in a district (sometimes more than one) and wait to see if their phone rings when a job becomes available. It sucks from a stability standpoint, but it's great if you only want to work a couple days a week--or only on this day or never on that.

    When I need a sub, I phone/internet in my missing day(s), even if school starts in a couple hours, and a computer calls subs and sees who wants to take the job.

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  4. I avoid being absent because in most circumstances even when I leave detailed lesson plans and materials, those are not used. It's simply marking time and frankly it would be time better served watching a video, which at least in content and delivery, I can control. Sorry if this seems blunt, but I am off today, having just finished grading my finals for the last semester. My rant is on my blog. I am getting frustrate with a system which wastes money on a cycle of programs that get used, abused and discarded, when having viable substitutes or even more teachers, has become a hands off topic.

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