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Docia Shares a Story - Substitutes

by Docia Zavitkovsky
January/February 1998
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Substitutes are special people centers can't do without. They are unsung contributors who deserve recognition for the indispensable role they play.

Eva Moravcek, an early childhood instructor at the University of Hawaii, shared with me an experience she had when she substituted in the lab school for the regular teacher who had to be away.

Scene: A beautiful Hawaiian day, ten children, two competent student assistants, everything shipshape. She watched the children play. They were relaxed and busy. She thought, "Easy - it should be a breeze."

Scene change: Sean threw up in the block corner all over the blocks and rug. Kainoa climbed up the outside of the tunnel slide and was perched some nine feet above the sand pit. Jackie, aged three, merrily poured dry beans on the floor.

The next few minutes were busy ones. Sean was taken care of and his mother called. Kainoa was removed from the tunnel slide to a safer, more appropriate climbing activity. The beans, with Jackie's help, were returned to the basin. Eva breathed a sigh of relief.

"Then," Eva says," as we were sweeping up the beans, I glanced over at the hollow blocks that Donna (one of the student assistants) was still cleaning. She was ...

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