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Edgar Rider

The Trials and Tribulations of Substitute Teaching

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Originally published in TEACH Magazine, July/August 2015 Issue

By Edgar Rider

It’s 8:25 a.m. and there are no notes left in the classroom. I scramble around the room and a few papers fall from the desk to the floor. I can hear the students chattering in the hall. I then look up and realize that in about five minutes they will begin filing into the room. It’s all on me now.

Welcome to the trials and tribulations of the substitute teacher.

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Edgar Rider has been working as a substitute teacher for grades K–12 for approximately eight years. He has previously been published in The Criterion and Copperfield Review Quarterly.

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