You have a professional development course to attend and will be absent from the classroom for an entire day. Who you gonna call? Well, certainly not the Ghostbusters. And unless you live in Gotham City you won’t get Batman either.
For you, the fourth emergency service will be a supply teacher. He or she will fly in, to save the day and cover your classes.
So, what can you do to make a supply teacher’s life easier? Considering this question carefully could just make the difference between coming back to neat piles of well-attempted work or complete chaos.
It is very likely that the supply teacher is a newcomer to your school. He or she is therefore in the unenviable position of never having met the staff or the pupils.
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