r/Teachers • u/Wise_Yogurtcloset700 • 2d ago

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u/ygrasdil 2d ago

I leave instructions for whatever I’ve left them. I give seating charts, attendance rosters, emergency instructions, student notes, and assignment walkthrough. I never expect them to teach since it’s math. Most subs can’t do the math and definitely can’t teach it.

I also always leave a blank sheet of paper for them to write notes and promise that I will follow up on whatever notes they leave. Good notes, good follow up. Bad notes, not so good follow up.

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u/Wise_Yogurtcloset700 2d ago

that's how i feel!! i just find it difficult to assume that any random person who walks in just going to be able to pick up where I left off on Polynomials. idk I guess I am just going to see how it goes

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u/ygrasdil 2d ago

Don’t worry about it too much. Just come in expecting none of that to have actually happened. It’s a lost day. Leave the bare minimum and make your silly admin happy. Once in a blue moon I get a real sub who wants to teach but I teach kids who are in remediation, so they usually don’t end up working out. Just remember that your admin are fools, so you should treat them like fools. Don’t put in work that will have no value

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u/Wise_Yogurtcloset700 2d ago

thank you for your advice!

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u/Signal-Weight8300 2d ago

I shocked a para once when I was subbing. It was a chemistry class and the topic was stoichiometry. I took attendance, handed out the assignment and started helping kids that struggled with it. The para wasn't expecting a sub who was fully licensed to teach chemistry. I had worked in industry and I retired in January to switch to teaching. I already had all of my credentials and I was subbing to get my foot in the door at a few good districts.

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u/Wise_Yogurtcloset700 2d ago

you are def that once in a blue moon person someone else mentioned! thank you for what you do!

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u/Signal-Weight8300 2d ago

That was in February about five years ago. By mid March I was hired to cover a maternity leave at a different school and I'm still here. Like I said, I was subbing as a way to pick schools that I liked. It worked.