Best Practice

Supply teaching: Tips for a successful placement

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SecEd’s supply teaching series continues. Matt Bromley offers some general best practice tips to help you ensure that your supply placements are successful

Being a supply teacher is tough. At times it can feel like you’re spinning plates and, if you’re not careful, it starts to resemble a Greek wedding.

One trick to keeping all those plates spinning is to break down what can be a complex, multi-faceted job into each of its constituent parts, to deconstruct the whole and identify its components, then reconstruct it again one piece at a time.

In practice, this might mean creating a checklist of short-term, manageable tasks.

To help you get started writing your own checklist, here are five top tasks you might want to tick off as soon as you start a new supply job...

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