Tired of constantly looking for subbing jobs? With this substitute teacher cover letter, you will be on every principal’s speed dial.
Dave Rygielski Career Expert
A substitute teacher doesn’t get many chances. Right when you get into the classroom, you have to command control—or you’ve lost. The same is true with your substitute teacher cover letter. If you don’t impress immediately, you will be dismissed quickly.
With this substitute teacher cover letter guide, you can be sure you will be the first one they call when disaster strikes.
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The first example comes from Melinda, who has several years of experience in subbing jobs. She knows her worth and more importantly, what’s important to the principal looking for a substitute, and displays all her skills accordingly.
Melinda K. Novak
2652 Pointe Lane
Pompano Beach, FL 33060
Pompano Beach, September 21, 2020
Clermont Middle School
2119 George Street
Clermont, FL 32711
I was pleased to learn about the available Substitute Teacher position at Clermont Middle School. Being a licensed substitute teacher with 5+ years of experience in substituting for teachers of various subjects in Grades 1-12, I maintain a 100% positive feedback rate from all schools and districts I have worked with. I am keen to apply my experience to help you maintain continuity of education in these hard times.
In addition to my Bachelor of English degree, and Masters in Education, I have experience working as a substitute teacher in 12 schools. I was responsible for the classes up to 33 students in some of the toughest inner-city schools of Miami. Due to my empathetic approach and incentive-based realization of the lesson plans supplied by the absent teachers, I was able to succeed where most subs fail: By not being seen as an adversary, or seen as insignificant and dismissed. Some of the schools I have subbed at are in a state of continuous disarray, and on 10+ occasions a year I have had to make do without ready lesson plans, and still managed to upkeep the 100% positive feedback from the schools I have worked with. At one point, I was called at 9am to come into Dade County Middle School to sub in for a History teacher that didn’t arrive that morning, and after a week the students and other staff insisted on me remaining there until the History teacher didn’t recover from the car crash that prevented them from arriving on that fateful morning, which ended up being 4 months. The fact that I made a difference big enough for two of the students I taught back then to still remain in contact and send me updates on how they’re getting along in college 4 years later is what keeps me coming back and trying.
I am confident that my wealth of experience and individual approach will allow me to get just as much, if not more, out of the students of Clermont Middle School than a regular teacher would.
When would be a good time to have a meeting or a call to discuss how I implemented a very simple psychological incentivization technique I learned in the first year of college to allow me to engage almost 100% of students?
Melinda K. Novak
Top marks. By focusing on what the principal needs her to be, she speaks right to their needs and can be sure that school will have her on speed dial from now on.
The next example is from Jean—someone who just qualified, but has enough transferable skills and initiative to get a great sub job.
