What are subs expected to do in terms of discipline? and a cool review idea, March 23

Today I subbed for a math class at one of the Junior highs, and I learned a new way to review for a test. The teacher called it review bingo, but it was different from bingo. The students were given a score card to write down the answers to the math questions on, like bingo, but then instead of doing the math questions one by one as a class, the students worked through the math problems as fast as possible, holding up their white boards as they found the answer to each question. As the teacher, I was to verify the correct answers. Let me tell you this is hard to do. Not only do you have 10 or so students with boards but in the air wanting to to tell them if they are right. You have answers to 5 different questions to check, and the students are racing so they want you to get to them first. It was a lot of fun for the students, and they were motivated because they were racing against each other, and any student that got a bingo got a piece of candy. I think it would be fun do do this in an English class, like as review for a test as an alternative to the jeopardy style review, but it would have to be tweaked. What makes it better than jeopardy is that every student is answering every question, so every student is accountable for all of the information.

After lunch there was a small incident. A couple of the students were horsing around in the hallway and a teacher caught them. She brought them to my class and told me to give them a detention. Well first of all, subs are not told the procedure for detentions. Is there a form that needs to be filled out/ Who do they serve the detention with? At the high school students serve detention with the teachers that gave them the detention. If this is the procedure at the junior high, do they expect subs to stay after school to supervise the detention. This is highly doubtful, but I have never been told what to do. Second of all, why couldn’t the teacher have given them the detention when she witnessed the behavior. I didn’t see what happened and the students were well behaved in class, so I left a note for the teacher to deal with the issue as she pleased. If schools want subs to dole out punishment, then they need to inform the subs of the proper procedures  for doing so.