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I attended a conference held by the New York City Department of Education. It was held to inform new members of the SVA (Substitute Vocational Assistant) program on their policies and procedures. The SVA program allows select High School graduates who are interested in pursuing a career in teaching a vocational subject; the opportunity to gain hands on experience and a nice salary. They place the members in a high school with a mentor to teach the vocational career they are knowledgeable in while earning 90% percent of a starting teacher’s salary and studying to become a full fledged license teacher. The conference was held in the New York City College of Technology (NYCT) and consisted of many different workshops. The one in which I will write about was said to be the most important of them all, because it covered all the necessary information on the program itself, what to expect and how to go about teaching a class