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Friday – August 29, 2008 
Tips for Teachers

Here are some tips for teachers who are preparing for a substitute to visit their room. These will help you to help me do a better job for your students. Remember that a substitute is a guest in your classroom who wants to do a good job. They do not know where things are kept or the procedures for your classroom, unless they have been there before. Substitutes also realize that your absence may be an emergency and that you might not have had time to plan for their visit.

Planning for a substitute involves more than leaving your lesson plans open to the page for that week. Everything that a substitute will need for the day should be where the substitute can find it. A substitute should not have to tear the room apart to find what they need.

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On this date in 2005 Hurricane Katrina devastates much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to the Florida Panhandle, causing over 115 billion dollars in damage.

Teaching Tip
With small children wear a "Hello I'm" name badge in addition to writing your name the on the board. It will reassure them if they can see your name when they speak to you. Also the clip-on kind like you get at conferences work well too.

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