As the very nature of the job dictates as a supply teacher you need to be pretty organised as often you will get a phone call in the morning to teach a class that day. Usually once you arrive at the school there will be a lesson plan either left by the teacher or one very quickly cobbled together by another member of staff if the absence is unexpected. This can be very difficult as in both scenarios it can be quite difficult to follow someone else’s lesson plan successfully.
That’s why as a supply teacher it’s always best to have a plan B, when accepting the job if you can find out what age group you will be teaching and which subjects you can then take along your own lesson plan as a back up if the work is finished too early or if your not getting on with the plan left for you.
It’s always useful to have a back catalogue of activities and work sheets to hand in a folder for this purpose organised by age level and subject with varying degrees of difficulty to suit all levels in the class.
These lesson plans are actually available online and you can print of work sheets and activities as well as buy topic books that have lesson plans to work from.
It takes a bit of work to put this together but you certainly will be glad that you have it.
