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Below are all the current positions Substitute Teacher Service has to offer.

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Substitute Teachers

Substitute Support Staff

Specialty Positions

Para Services

While there’s a heavy focus on hiring permanent school staff, it’s equally important to screen substitute teachers and ensure you’re hiring the best possible candidates. Substitute teachers can greatly affect student (and parent) behavior. They can spend days, weeks or even months teaching and interacting with students. They can mean the difference between education stalling or continuing uninterrupted in a teacher’s absence.

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You love substitute teaching. You love the flexibility and freedom of choosing your own hours. You look forward to working with students on a day-to-day basis and making a real difference in their lives. You enjoy teaching a range of age groups and subjects and keeping your knowledge base fresh and up-to-date.

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Work, grocery store, laundry, cook dinner, pick the kids up from school, take them to soccer practice or dance classes, shovel your dinner into your mouth, catch up on any work you need to, have a two-minute conversation to catch up on the day with your spouse and get some shut eye before the next school day rolls around. If this is you and a work/life balance seems like a figment of your imagination, think again.

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In a world that is constantly on the go, it’s a wonder anyone can find time for more than just work, especially when you’re in charge of running an entire school. You probably think that unless you sleep in your office and forego any social interaction for the next millennium, you’ll never get everything done.

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If you have kids or have ever interacted or worked with kids, you know that one of the most challenging things to do is hold their attention and interest for more than a few fleeting moments.

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When you were little, you probably didn’t know a whole lot about career choices or the perks of choosing one job over another. You only knew you wanted to have fun and live in a mansion (ok, a townhome will do).

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You’ve worked hard all your life and have been counting down the seconds until retirement and then it hits you - you’ve actually finished your last day at the job. Your life goes from busy every day to retirement: the final frontier. All too often, we have grand plans of how to fill our hours during retirement - gardening, travel, volunteering and spending time with family. We do all of the above and sometimes more, only to still feel slightly unfulfilled. Then, you think of something your younger self would have never thought - going back to work.

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Remember your first day of school? You were nervous, didn’t know what you were doing, what to wear or what to expect. Everything was up in the air, and you always wished you’d prepared better. Unfortunately, this feeling is a familiar one when you’re a substitute teacher and jumping into someone else’s well-rehearsed routine.

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You want the best of the best, and who can blame you? Finding the right fit for your school and classroom is not something you can take chances on. Even though substitute teachers are only temporary, they’re just as important as your full-time teachers. If you’re in search of the right people for the job, we’re sharing tips on how to acquire (and keep) the best substitute teachers out there.  

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When you were little, did you ever dream of being the hero? The one who swoops in and saves the human race from all of the evil in the world? Do you imagine changing lives and making the world a better place? If your daydreams include any of the above on a semi-regular basis, but you really have no idea where to start, then you’ve come to the right place. Enter: the substitute teacher.

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5 Reasons Substitute Teaching Provides More Than You Think

There are a lot of myths and misconceptions out there about what subbing is, and about what it isn’t. That’s why we developed this helpful guide to show you the benefits of substitute teaching. get started on the right career path that is ideal for where you are.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Classroom Presence

One of the challenges of substitute teaching, no matter the classroom, is having a strong classroom presence. That special “je ne sais quoi” is difficult to teach and often thought of as partly an innate ability, but that doesn’t mean those that may struggle a bit more than others can’t be coached.

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Useful Links

These links will take you to all the necessary resources you need in order to apply to Substitute Teacher Services.

PA Act 34 – PA State Police Clearance ($22.00)
PA Act 114 – FBI Fingerprinting: ($23.85) 
     *Instructions for FBI Fingerprinting click here

  ***You will be emailed your unofficial results. You will only have 1 chance to save(as PDF) or print your FBI Fingerprinting results after you click the link in your email.  Afterwards, you will not have access to the results***

PA Act 151 – Child Abuse: ($13.00)
TIMS Teacher Certification Application System

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