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Substitute Teaching: An Insider's View - An article providing guidance to current and potential substitute teachers. Discusses situations substitutes may encounter and offers suggestions.
Substitute Teaching - Tricks Of The Trade - A description of the good, bad, and the ugly of substitute teaching. Also offers a list of suggested magazine articles, books and videos.
Teachers.Net - Substitute Teachers Chatboard - A very active bulletin board.
Substitute Teacher Today - Online newsletter offering tips, advice, editorials, and links to other sites about Substitute Teaching.
Substitute Teaching, Manitoba - Information, tips, and links to important web sites.
Melissa's Myriad: Tips for Substitute Teachers - A teacher shares helps and hints for substitute teachers.
Substitute Teacher Service, Inc. - Locator of substitute teachers, teacher aides, and support personnel. Serves a number of Pennsylvania and Delaware state school districts.
National Substitute Teachers Alliance (NSTA) - Newsletter, articles, annual conference details, and insurance products available just for substitutes.
Substitute Teacher Resources - Documents and lesson plans for substitutes and for teachers who intend to have a subsitute in their classroom.
A Packet for Substitute Teachers - Robert Jackson, retired educator, gives lots of tips, tricks, and practical activities for substitute teachers.

Busy work - Busy work is a term for schoolwork, coursework, or homework that keeps students occupied without teaching anything constructive or interesting. Examples might include hastily put together 'projects', which are given to the student to keep them busy if the teacher is absent and a substitute teacher is present, word searches featuring lists of specialized vocabulary words, end-of-the-year portfolio project, or lab assignments with many questions that only serve to take up time: while exposure to jargon or terminology may be important, using a word search as a teaching method ...
Crate training - Crate training is the process of teaching a dog to go into its crate on command and to be comfortable there while enclosed. Dogs, like all canines, are den-dwelling animals by instinct and a crate becomes a den substitute, providing a familiar and safe haven for the dog.