For those teachers who are new to the process, substitute teaching may be hazardous to your emotional and physical health. The information I have gathered will help you survive the experience. I have found that everything written about teaching is about teaching. Substitute teaching is not the same. First, you must be in the right frame of mind.
Teachers like to control the knowledge inputted into their students' heads.
Since they are not there, they will let you input little if any information into their students. Subs have cried and yelled to get through the day. This is not a pleasurable experience or position one wants to be in. Do not let the students deter your vision or purpose for teaching. Second, you must understand what you are getting into.