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A survey of the district's elementary principals and teachers and of the substitutes working at two elementary schools indicated that substitute teachers should be evaluated, that an inservice program for substitutes was needed to help provide information and direction that could improve their overall effectiveness, and that there was strong support for the development of a handbook that would outline basic procedures that substitutes could rely on and follow wherever they worked in the county. In response to what was learned from the surveys, the authors designed and conducted an informational workshop for substitutes in the elementary schools in Eastern Henrico County (Virginia), devised and developed a handbook for substitutes, and ascertained whether the information workshop, procedural suggestions, handbook, and evaluation guidelines helped improve the performance of the substitutes. Appendixes contain the survey instruments, evaluation checklists, and the handbook developed. (Author/IRT)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert