Inevitably it's going to happen. You'll get sick in the middle of the night...or your kids will. Your car won't crank. You have a flat on the way to work. Something will happen at the last minute to prevent you from getting to work on time. What are you going to do? What are your students going to do?
This sort of thing would happen at my school with annoying frequency. And what would the admin do? They'd ask the other teachers to come up with some lesson plans to get through the day. Ugh! Nothing I enjoyed more than using my planning period to get something crappy thrown together for a fellow teacher.
Please. Please. Get some emergency lesson plans for your classroom, so that if this does happen, you can just say, "My emergency plans are located...blah...blah...blah." An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure! Your fellow teachers, admin, and students will thank you.
You can find emergency sub plans on Tpt. In fact, I have some myself. They are linked below. But it's also pretty easy to throw together your own. Before I made some, I would just pick some stories from the literature book that I never taught. Then I would build a little lesson around them.
Read the story aloud.
Answer the questions at the end.
Go over them.
Write a response.
It's really not that hard to create some emergency lesson plans...or buy them. And you'll be glad to have one less thing to worry about when you have an actual emergency.
MY EMERGENCY LESSON PLANS ON TEACHERS PAY TEACHERS
MY MOVIE BASED SUB PLANS FOR EXTENDED ABSENCE
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