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Teachers: Getting Ready
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I'm starting to get things organized and ready for my sub even though I'm only 31w and don't know who will be in my room. I figure it's better to be safe than sorry if things don't go exactly as I plan and I don't go around my due date of May 9th. I'm also doing it out of just being anxious and excited. 
I'm just curious, but when did/are you going to have things ready for your sub? Do you know who your sub is already? I think if I knew who was going to be in the room (our day-to-day sub, for example), I wouldn't be so crazy detailed. This person will be finishing out the year for me, so it's more than just leaving information about our routine.
.... I keep trying to let go of some control and tell myself that they are in good hands and I'll be more concerned about MY baby than my 23 8yo babies by that point.
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Re: Teachers: Getting Ready
My sub is hired and ready to go.
I am preparing a binder of things that she may need to make copies of, schedules and and leaving a folder on my computer desktop of newletters/calendars she can adjust and print out each month, as well as other documents she may need access to but wouldn't be able to find in my files on the computer. I am also trying to stay ahead of the game and make lesson plans a few weeks out at a time as well as smartboard lessons so that when she does come in the first week is easy on her. I also included a list of assessments and things she has to get done before the year is out.
she has been subbing in my room all year. I am very comfortable with her finishing out the year.
I arranged my sub when I was 4w pregnant, the first week of school. I am a band director and he is the same guy who subbed for me last time and is in high demand.
I have to be INSANELY detailed when it comes to schedule/routine. He is in his mid 80's and doesn't use a computer. I have to have it planned down to the last detail (for 4-8th grade I make my own schedule and it rotates but not evenly), including 5 days when he will be out. He is also conducting 5 concerts for me.
I am beyond stressed.
You still have plenty of time to do stuff. I worked up until last week and started getting ready like 3 weeks before that. I teach high school so I made sure that I had my units completed and tests graded so that the sub could start fresh when he got there. I also left information about certain students that are struggling and my strategies for helping them. Also, email addresses for parents that I frequently email, etc. etc.
In the end, its really hard to let go of the control of the classroom and you just have to! I'm still checking my work email to keep tabs on everything.
Hope this helps
I have a folder of important things, and nothing more!
She was my sub two years ago when I had DD, and she was the teacher in my room a few people before me. She really knows the ropes! I am so thankful that I don't have anything to worry about : )
I'm due May 28th so my sub wasn't going to have to do much (last day of school is June 10th). And no, no idea who it would be.
Well, today I went in for my 28w appt and thanks to a shortened cervix I will not be going back to work. uggh! Just did lesson plans for tomorrow through Friday. Went to pick stuff up from school after appt to write plans. I plan on wirting plans for the next couple of weeks and will go back one afternoon this week to organize and pull things the sub may need. I'm not on bedrest so I can go in and get what I need at least. He has no idea who he is going to replace me yet. Poor guy- hated breaking that news to him this afternoon.
We just had to find a new sub for me - the one we had lined up came down with pneumonia and her doctor told her she's not allowed in the school anymore...too many germs.
So, I have been doing a little more prepping than I would have. Today I wrote down each student's name and then about 3 things about that child to help the sub get to know them. I am also getting the snack calendars along with the monthly projects that the kids do ready for her (for both April & May). She is going to start spending some time in my room this week so I have a list of questions for her about how she wants to handle certain things, for example: I have a part time aide in my room, but if she is sick or needs the day off, I don't have her get a sub because I find it's more work for me to tell the sub what to do the whole time than it is for me to just do it myself. But my sub may want the extra hands when my aide is gone so we have to talk about that.
It's definitely hard to give up control for the rest of the year, but they will survive and learn! I also decided that if it was the end of the school year tomorrow, all of my students would be promoted to first grade except one and his parents have already agreed to retention so I really don't have anything to worry about!
I will be out for 9-10 weeks of school (last day 3/25 and not to return for the rest of the school year which ends 6/2), so I have a ton of stuff to do for the sub. I teach four different high school classes which aren't even remotely similar so it has been a lot of work.
I started working on a general plan for each class about week 30 and over the past 6 weeks, I've been adding "unit plans" for each class (with the assignments/power points/tests that go with it). I'm sure I'm OVER doing it, but I want to make sure my sub doesn't screw up my poor kiddos last quarter of school.
I found out last week that I'll have two subs for the time. The first 6 weeks will be a credentialed history teacher on the layoff list (I teach English) and they haven't hired someone for the last 3-4 weeks yet.
I haven't done much so far. Unfortunately, the school district won't have the sub for me until about the week before i go out--and typically they don't even shadow us!
I teach library in two schools; so I know it will be incredibly hectic for the sub to come in. Unfortunately except for lesson plans (and I am trying to get done ALL the things that I want them to focus on before I go out on May 2nd); most of the things the sub has to learn are in house, especially since she will be closing out the libraries at the end of the year.
Since I have no secretaries, she will have to really learn how to multitask, by teaching a lesson/having an activity/checking in and out books/shelving books...and not a lot of time to do it in. Which is sending me into a panic. There is a whole computer system to learn; along with the Dewey Decimal System, and how to settle fines/lost books/etc. Hopefully they will come in and shadow me, just because I can't even imagine leaving things for her to thrown in to do it.
I am not doing anything as far as planning for my sub.. I will leave her the textbooks and that is it. I am sorry to say. I am just trying to make it through the next 5 weeks.
I will be out for 8 weeks and coming back once classes are over for testing weeks.
I wish I could trade you - I teach history and have a certified English teacher coming in to sub for me. It's crazy, the whole time I was training in Social Studies, I was told that we (s.s. teachers) were a dime a dozen. Now we don't have any subs in our district who have any background!
My last day is the 24th and it has been super overwhelming trying to prep stuff for the last 8 weeks of school!
This time I will admit I am being super lazy. WIth my DD 2 years ago my maternity leave was started in mid September and I teach Kindergarten. So I was super detailed and planned and organized and copied and got all crafts, read alouds, etc ready for the entire 8 weeks. I didnt want to come back to chaos (but I did anyways-my sub wasn't very good, but I didnt pick him).
This time, my last day is next Thursday (wahoo!) and I will be out the rest of this year. I am only doing 2 weeks of detailed lesson plans, then leaving her an outline of the rest of the year as far as where she should be in the curriculum, projects, and themes we typically do. She is a new teacher, and I am just telling her it is her class now. SHe can change whatever she wants. I am really not going to care once I am at home. I hate to say that, but since I am not going back to this group of kids, I dont mind if she changes routines etc. I am conferencing with all the parents before I leave and letting them know what levels there on etc. I will discuss all this wih the sub before I leave too.