*Teacher Role IDENTIFIERS Teaching Perspectives

Since regular teachers miss on average 8 days of work each year due to illness, there is a need to have well trained substitute teachers for the public schools. The substitute teacher needs inservice education programs which prepare him/her to do a quality job of teaching students. The following are essential reading skills to develop within certified substitute teachers: word recognition skills; structural analysis skills; syntactical analysis skills; and higher levels of cognition in questioning. This paper also considers some other goals which a substitute teacher should aim for, such as helping develop a love for reading in students; having structural ideas in mind as to what needs to be emphasized in reading instruction; possessing a repertoire of skills for students to use in increasing comprehension abilities; being well versed in management strategies when teaching students; having a repertoire of planned activities to assist students to indicate what has been learned within diverse culminating activities; and having knowledge of and implementing evaluation techniques which are valid and reliable for assessing reading achievement. (Contains 10 references.) (NKA) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the Original document