"A place for everything, and everything in its place" - Samuel Smiles
Teaching is one of the few professions that requires an immediate replacement for you if you're absent.
It takes more than written lesson plans in order for a substitute to effectively teach your class in your absence. It also takes organization.
Do you know a teacher whose room is one big pile of papers and books? Whose desk isn't evident to the human eye? Whose supplies spill into crevices and corners and whose files are files in name only?
That teacher puts a substitute in peril when he or she takes over a class.
How can a teacher help a substitute? Leave direction and detailed lesson plans. Let the substitute know where the teacher's manuals are. Where the grade book is. Where the supplies lay hidden.
When substitutes have to rely on students in order to find things, they aren't able to adequately cover the material. They appear helpless and lose control of the classroom. They feel frustrated and may never come back.
Many teachers complain that they are not considered professionals by the world. By the world's standards, how professional is your classroom? Remember, your room is a direct reflection on you.
Need help getting organized? Find someone whose classroom you admire and ask them for help.
Prompt: I admire the classroom of a colleague because. . . I would like to ask them for help in . . .
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