Substitute teachers never scared me. I am one now and the quickest way to get the kids’ attention is to yell. For me anyway. I am a coach’s daughter and I inherited that loud voice. When I want to be heard, you can bet your boots that you will hear me. I don’t really intend for it to scare the kids, just more so get their attention. It sure does startle them though, given that I am all of 5’3” and am generally pretty quiet as they come in the room. They don’t expect it.

Keep in mind, I substitute at a high school. I wouldn’t use the same approach with younger ones. Though I did work at a day camp when I was younger and had to yell to get the attention of some of those kids too. But that was mostly just to be heard over them to get them to quiet down. Those kids, the best way to “scare” them was to threaten to cut short their play time if they didn’t do as they were told (this involved keeping them at their tables or on a gym floor line for a few extra minutes before releasing them to play).

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