A four-hour course being offered by Moniteau School District poses a central question to the people who attend: “Who was your best or worst teacher?”

The district's emergency substitute teaching certification class aims to not only certify people to substitute teach, but to help them recreate their best teachers and avoid becoming their worst teachers.

“We try to build it around their experiences and education,” said Dustin Thompson, principal of Dassa McKinney Elementary School. “We ask them to tell us about the best teacher or their worst teacher. Then we use the (Danielson Group Framework for Teaching) and look at what made them a good teacher or a bad teacher.”

The next emergency substitute teaching certification course is from 4 to 8 p.m. Oct. 14, and registration is available by calling 724-637-2117, ext. 2001, or by emailing skirschner@moniteau.org.

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