Long-term sub expectations? (elementary school)

[Anonymous]

What are the expectations for a long-term sub who is teaching an elementary school class for 3 months to cover a maternity leave? What parts of a teacher's job are they paid to do/should you expect them to do, and what sorts of "normal" teacher tasks should you expect to fall by the wayside until the regular teacher returns because they're not really the sub's responsibility?

And if your child's grades are starting to slip, is it reasonable to reach out to someone to try to figure out what might be going on (since no graded assignments are sent home anymore to give any clues), and if so would you ask the sub or someone else (who?) Or is there not really a good solution and you just need to bide your time until the teacher's back?

[Anonymous]

Most kids will have at least one long term sub in elementary school. You just need to enjoy the ride and not expect much. And if the sub turns out good, that’s a bonus. This is public school after all.

[Anonymous]

Keep the kids alive. We had that one year and the teacher extended the leave. Kid learned nothing and we had to teach at home. Teacher was worse when she came back and completely checked out.

[Anonymous]

I doubt in elementary school it won’t matter too much. I had a substitute teacher an entire semester for my national state and local government class in 10th grade because my teacher got fired for “having sex” with a student. We learned nothing due to all the disruptions due to the lack of respect for substitute teachers from students .

[Anonymous]

It really varies. Some substitutes are awesome, especially the MCPS teachers that are now retired and have come back into the workforce. They know what they’re doing. And some just are there, people with a pulse, basically. For me, I’ve done long-term sub jobs, and I brought 200% to it. But that's just me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the expectations for a long-term sub who is teaching an elementary school class for 3 months to cover a maternity leave? What parts of a teacher's job are they paid to do/should you expect them to do, and what sorts of "normal" teacher tasks should you expect to fall by the wayside until the regular teacher returns because they're not really the sub's responsibility?

And if your child's grades are starting to slip, is it reasonable to reach out to someone to try to figure out what might be going on (since no graded assignments are sent home anymore to give any clues), and if so would you ask the sub or someone else (who?) Or is there not really a good solution and you just need to bide your time until the teacher's back?

I would expect them to cover the material. Classoom management can be hit or miss and things like cleaning the classroom/organizing/environment tend to slip

[Anonymous]

Be grateful it’s a single long term sub. We had a rotating cast of 5-6 subs for my kid when his teacher was on maternity leave in 1st grade. I would expect that a LT sub could be receptive to parental concerns.

[Anonymous]

Not sure you know how grades are slipping. But I found that long term subs try to follow the lesson plans and most were good in ES. In HS I had to get my daughter a tutor to catch her up on calculus. Hard to tell why - maybe not as good of a teacher or not as accessible. But two sessions was all it took so it wasn’t too bad.

I would contact the sub directly if you have concerns. If you need their email call the office.

[Anonymous]

Just wait until you get stuck with a long term sub in MS or HS for foreign language, computer science, higher level math or science. Long term sub at my kid's MS was given the wrong curriculum for their computer science class, and it wasn't realized until the 2nd month of school.