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Home : 2004 : November : 20
Have you considered visiting the schools and meeting with the secretary or principal and telling them you are new to subbing but would very much like to work at their school. Sometimes just the "package" - someone well-spoken, friendly and professional looking - will tip the scales in your favour, to say nothing of the fact that YOU took the initiative, on your own time, to stop in and introduce yourself. Make up some sub "business cards" (your name, sub request or phone number and the grades/subjects you teach) and ask if you can leave some for the teachers or pin one up in the staff room. We are all "unknown faces" to most of the schools until we've been there and proven ourselves. Anything you can do to make yourself a "known face" will probably help you. And the more you work, the more work you will get (as you are finding now). Do let the teachers for whom you sub know that you would love to come back to their class again and leave your business card, with your name and phone #/sub # attached to your note at the end of the day so they can carry this with them. Some teachers will even call ahead to ask if you are available on a certain date before calling in their absence and requesting you specifically, and when that starts happening, it's really great.
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