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The Secret Supply Teacher
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The Secret Diary of a Supply Teacher: ‘Help! I’m at an all-girls’ school and I can’t cope’
TES’ insider in the world of supply teaching had never set foot in a school where only girls are taught...until now
7 December 2016
The Secret Diary of a Supply Teacher: ‘I press the panic button. But nobody comes’
30 November 2015
The Secret Diary of a Supply Teacher: ‘I don’t want a permanent role for the sake of my mental health and the good of my children’
In a permanent post, this supply teacher was made to feel they didn’t measure up and that their testing and data-entry skills were never up to scratch
12 November 2015
Secret Diary: ‘How supply teaching transformed me from a “teachbot” into a Stephen Fry of the classroom’
Part two of our undercover teacher discovering the delights of supply work
25 October 2015
The Secret Diary of a Supply Teacher: ‘Like a wartime fighter pilot waiting to be scrambled, I sit by the phone’
Supply teaching...to a regular teacher thinking of making the switch, it might seem like the promised land – a place free of parents’ evenings or getting up when it’s still dark to write lesson plans. But will it all be milk and honey for The Secret Supply Teacher? In the first instalment of a weekly series, he faces up to the reality of waiting for the work call
14 October 2015