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  Over the past few years, Pinterest has established itself nicely and cosily on the bookmark tab of thousands. It is a place to go for daily inspiration for the home, wedding planning or even pictures of cute animals, but did you know it can be a life-changing resource for relief teachers? Here are a few reasons why. It really is your CRT bag of tricks online! Pinterest literally has thousands of activities for relief teachers to utilise. Take a look and start pinning them to your own boards, now! That way you’ll never be short of an activity. Bring...

Do you find yourself spending hours preparing your lessons? Are you getting very little support from other relief teachers? Is it difficult to know what to teach your children without a syllabus? Would you like some tips on how to create a good lesson when you find yourself with ten minutes to prepare a lesson, a broken photocopier, and your bag of teaching goodies safely locked up at home? If you’ve answered ‘yes’ to any of the above questions, then I hope the following will help your plight! Covering someone else’s lesson Obviously, the more information you can get about...

Getting your Bag of Tricks Organised Personalising your bag of Tricks Creating your bag of tricks is really a vital part of your experience as a successful Relief teacher. I often suggest to people, that rather than considering a day of no calls as a day off, allocate some time into putting some thought into your resource kit or creating some resources of your own. It is so easy to do this using such simple programmes as PowerPoint, which I use all the time. At the end of the creation you can save it as jpg files, PDF, windows media...

  Testimonial I am blessed to be able to create resources to make Relief Teaching just a little easier. Before I start on my blog, I am thrilled to share some very kind words I recently received. My Ultimate Relief Teaching Survival Kit, has been a labour of love for the past 6 months and to receive such glowing feedback made it all worthwhile, and I know that I am helping in my own way to take some of the stress away from finding resources and building lessons from scratch. “This is BRILLIANT!!! I only bought it a few days...

  One of the biggest challenges with Relief teaching can be the uncertainty of work. Let’s look at some of the strategies that you can use to support you in becoming a teacher that is valued and offered call backs from the schools that you work in: · Building relationships with students is a vitally important part of our day. Setting the tone for the day by creating a safe and secure classroom environment sends students home happy and very keen to tell their parents and their classroom teacher about the great day that they had with you. a) To...