This book offers practical tips, teaching strategies, and classroom activities for successful substitute teaching. Tackle your role as substitute teacher with confidence and ease. This essential resource offers field-tested guidance on how to maintain effective classroom and behavior management while making connections with students and advancing classroom content. Packed with strategies, actionable steps, and insights from a variety of guest teachers, this book will prepare you for a day that is both enjoyable and productive. This book will help you: walk through the process of becoming a substitute teacher step by step-from submitting the initial paperwork to completing a full school day; glean insights from current and former substitutes, with clearly defined dos and don'ts of the role; learn how to make positive impressions with school staff and establish connections with students; strategize on how to correct misbehavior and redirect attention in rowdy classrooms; and understand classroom structures you may encounter and receive tips and activities tailored to each one.