Washington Education Association
Preparing a More Useful Sub Plan for Your Substitute Teacher
Make your substitute's life easier by using the prompts on a one-page resource to a craft a profile of your classes and your daily routines. A great-first page for a substitute teacher folder.
Worthington City Schools
From Survive to Thrive: What Great Substitute Teachers Do Differently
Thinking about signing up as a substitute teacher? Subbing is not for the faint of heart but with the help of the thoughtful advice in a detailed guide, you can develop the skills you need to be a great, professional substitute teacher.
Cowden-Herrick Schools
Six Steps for Substitute Success
Here's a switch--a lesson plan designed for prepare class members for a substitute! The plan highlights six behaviors that demonstrate respect and responsibility.
Other
Pro Teacher
This site is a resource for classroom teachers and substitute teachers. The site has lesson plans, message boards, web sites and academic content standards that will enhance your classroom.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Middle School and High School Sub Plans
Lesson ideas for the substitute teacher for middle school and secondary art instruction.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Harry the Substitute Teacher
Harry and his students look at various arrangements of classroom desks in this video from Cyberchase.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Sugar vs. Artificial Sweeteners
A curriculum unit that looks at digestion, carbohydrates, and the chemistry and history of sugar substitutes and how these differ from sugar. They will do activities where they research artificial sweeteners, look at making healthy...
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Elementary Art Sub Plans
Lesson ideas for the substitute teacher for elementary art instruction.
Incredible Art Department
The Incredible Art Department: Art Lesson Plans
The main page for this site's section on lesson plans. It describes how to build an art lesson plan and has links to instructional activity collections for all grade bands, for substitute teachers, integration with drama, cartoon...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Welcome to Our Classroom
Young scholars will create a classroom resource book for substitutes to help them feel more comfortable and familiar with faces and procedures in our classroom and school.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Amplify Education, Inc.: Switch the Sound Activity, Phoneme Substitution
A classroom activity to help the student determine what is different about a one syllable word. The teacher says a word, then changes one sound in the word, and asks the learners what is different.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Guess What I'm Thinking?: Initial Sound Accuracy
A version of the "20 Questions" game. The instructor tells the class he is thinking of something that starts with, for example, /b/. The students have to come up with what the teacher is thinking of.
Chase Young, PhD
Dr. Chase Young, Ph D: Reader's Theater Script: Miss Nelson Is Missing [Pdf]
A reader's theater script for Harry Allard, Miss Nelson is Missing, is provided on these pages. Seven character roles are needed in this activity.
Wisconsin Response to Intervention Center
Wisconsin Rt I Center: Phoneme Substitution [Pdf]
Classroom teachers will learn how to use phoneme substitution as an instructional strategy. Teachers will learn direct instructional techniques for phoneme substitution. Word picture cards are included to be used with phoneme...
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
Ascd: The Best Value in Formative Assessment
Ready-made benchmark tests cannot substitute for day-to-day formative assessment conducted by assessment-literate teachers. This article helps educators find out what assessment for learning is and how it leads to student improvement.
Los Angeles County Office of Education
Teams: Levels of Phonemic Awareness
This site outlines seven levels of phonemic awareness ranging from awareness of rhyming words to phoneme manipulation.
Other
Visnos: Spinners
Interactive spinners can be used by teachers and students to find the rule, use order of operations to solve, and substitute values for variables. Best results when Safari or Chrome are used.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
Nctm: Illuminations: Algebra Tiles
This resource is about factoring linear and quadratic expressions in one variable, evaluating them at a given value of the variable, multiplying factors to find the expanded form of the expression, and solving linear and quadratic...