Who Knew?!

      The beginning of last week I was kind of down because I felt guilty that I hadn't had a call to sub in a few days. Since I wasn't working I began messing around on my phone and I found this app called Jobulator. Jobulator is suppose to notify you, kind of in the form of a text message, that there are available jobs. Once I put that app on my phone, within an hour I had a job for a half day later that afternoon. I also ended up picking up two more jobs while I was at school that day for later on in the week. 

     Until I put the app on my phone, I would get my jobs by either a call from the school or checking online. If I would of known how much this app actually helped I would of installed it months ago. I used to get maybe three jobs throughout the week, but now these past two weeks I have a job scheduled for almost everyday! 

     Substitute teaching is hard because you never really know what you will be doing, where you will be going, or how often you will be able to sub. It is however getting easier because I am starting to learn students names and several teachers daily routines. There are a few teachers at a couple of the schools I go to that are extremely kind and always make an effort to say hello or see if I need anything. I definitely can see me having a teacher position there someday.

     People have told me that I would hate subbing, but to be honest I am aware that it is all part of climbing the ladder. If it was between me subbing and me not teaching at all, I would take subbing any day. As much as I love the idea of having me own classroom, eventually having all these substitute positions will help me gain experience which will be beneficial when I do have my own classroom. 

     Needless to say, if you are a substitute teacher looking for as many teaching opportunities as possible, put Jobulator on your phone, you will see a huge jump in the number of your teaching days, which will also be a jump in pay!!