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I've been reading these responses, and am happy to report that I got a job offer for the level I wanted. It works out with my child's school schedule as well. It's easy to assume certain things from reading them in an Internet forum, and I feel I have been portrayed by some to be inflexible and not likely to be considered for a job. Luckily my employer saw it differently and gave me a chance. I guess it helped that it was for a former teacher I had subbed with before and she requested me when her aide quit. The right place at the right time!
Hopefully one of those other classrooms will never be short handed and need you to fill in....
No, I'm not a sub any longer, so I don't fill in anywhere. Besides, I was never in the mod severe substitute pool anyway, so that was not an option.
Quite often in schools, if an emergency arises, staff may need to be shifted temporarily to meet students' needs. That's what I am referring to in my post.
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I've been reading these responses, and am happy to report that I got a job offer for the level I wanted. It works out with my child's school schedule as well. It's easy to assume certain things from reading them in an Internet forum, and I feel I have been portrayed by some to be inflexible and not likely to be considered for a job. Luckily my employer saw it differently and gave me a chance. I guess it helped that it was for a former teacher I had subbed with before and she requested me when her aide quit. The right place at the right time!
That's great!
There are times and things in our life where it is not only okay to be inflexible, it is the right thing to do. Been there, done that, so have most people. Such choices can have ramifications, I am glad it worked out for you. You have a child with special needs, I absolutely agree seeing to her needs is more important than a job, especially if you can financially swing it without one.
At the end of the day, how the person hiring you saw your situation is all that matters. The problem with putting things going on in your life on a forum is that there will be people who will give you the truth as they see it, all filters off. It is just part of the nature of the beast.
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Quite often in schools, if an emergency arises, staff may need to be shifted temporarily to meet students' needs. That's what I am referring to in my post. You don't present yourself as a team player. Good luck.
Yes, that did happen with some regularity in our school.
There are times and things in our life where it is not only okay to be inflexible, it is the right thing to do. Been there, done that, so have most people. Such choices can have ramifications, I am glad it worked out for you. You have a child with special needs, I absolutely agree seeing to her needs is more important than a job, especially if you can financially swing it without one.
At the end of the day, how the person hiring you saw your situation is all that matters. The problem with putting things going on in your life on a forum is that there will be people who will give you the truth as they see it, all filters off. It is just part of the nature of the beast.
Quite often in schools, if an emergency arises, staff may need to be shifted temporarily to meet students' needs. That's what I am referring to in my post. You don't present yourself as a team player. Good luck.
My school district doesn't have permanent aides filling in for other classes. They have a large pool to cover staff that are out. I am a team player, actually, but since I don't know you and you don't know me there's no sense in arguing.
Yes, that did happen with some regularity in our school.
I can see how that would be needed in other schools, but my district is very attractive to applicants, they have a huge sub pool to choose from. There are "district paraeducators" that oversee all of the paraeducator training and in the rare occurrence a sub is not available, one of the registered paras will fill in for the gig. Once you are a permanent aide like myself, you never sub again unless you request to go back to the pool.
I can see how that would be needed in other schools, but my district is very attractive to applicants, they have a huge sub pool to choose from. There are "district paraeducators" that oversee all of the paraeducator training and in the rare occurrence a sub is not available, one of the registered paras will fill in for the gig. Once you are a permanent aide like myself, you never sub again unless you request to go back to the pool.
I think you missed the meaning of the post you were responding to. Here it is: "Quite often in schools, if an emergency arises, staff may need to be shifted temporarily to meet students' needs."
We're not talking about a common teacher absent, sub hired situation. We're talking about if an emergency arises. No matter how good a school is (and mine was considered the best middle school in Fairfax County and one of the 10 best in the state of Virginia...and Fairfax is one of the best school systems in the nation), emergencies do occur. Midway through the school day, getting a sub is not usually very easy. A teacher is rushed to the hospital or just goes home at 1 p.m. quite ill. You don't get a sub for 90 minutes. You make do. And you make do with the personnel whose work experiences are closest to the professional taken ill. That's just one example. In my time as a teacher I pitched in in virtually every subject matter in an emergency -- foreign language, history, home ec, shop, sped, math, even orchestra...and I was an earth science teacher.
I think you missed the meaning of the post you were responding to. Here it is: "Quite often in schools, if an emergency arises, staff may need to be shifted temporarily to meet students' needs."
We're not talking about a common teacher absent, sub hired situation. We're talking about if an emergency arises. No matter how good a school is (and mine was considered the best middle school in Fairfax County and one of the 10 best in the state of Virginia...and Fairfax is one of the best school systems in the nation), emergencies do occur. Midway through the school day, getting a sub is not usually very easy. A teacher is rushed to the hospital or just goes home at 1 p.m. quite ill. You don't get a sub for 90 minutes. You make do. And you make do with the personnel whose work experiences are closest to the professional taken ill. That's just one example. In my time as a teacher I pitched in in virtually every subject matter in an emergency -- foreign language, history, home ec, shop, sped, math, even orchestra...and I was an earth science teacher.
No, I do understand the meaning of the post. I am not a teacher. I am a paraprofessional. While every school district is different, if a paraprofessional in my district has an emergency and has to leave the classroom there is a huge pool to choose from to fill in. In the rare case that a para sub cannot be found, there are about five district paras that work in the district offices that are in charge of training. They will be called in that situation. The poster stated that they hoped I would not be asked to fill in a mod-severe classroom. I was merely pointing out that there is no chance of that.
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