Substantial Classrooms: Redesigning the Substitute Teaching Experience

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.

Author: Jill Vialet, Amanda Von Moos
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 04/13/2021
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.40d
ISBN13: 9781119663652
ISBN10: 1119663652
BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching | General
- Education | Administration | Elementary & Secondary

About the Author

JILL VIALET and AMANDA VON MOOS are the Co-founders of Substantial, a nonprofit organization focused on redesigning the way schools and districts recruit, train, and support substitute teachers.