What should be priority or the main goal for a teacher when she is absent?
It is to maintain a smooth transition to the students, sub and school in order to keep the learning experience for students to continue without interuptions, or is it to help create as much confusion as possible for sub, students and school?
How can the best case scenario be accomplished?
A teacher should prepare and do everything possible to help her students continue with their learning and lessons.
The burden of continuing the learning experience for her students is NOT upon the sub or the school, but the burden is upon her instead.
A good teacher will have lesson plans in place for the sub to implement.
This is the number one way to keep students in control and out of mischief while she is gone.
Now if the teacher would like for her students to be out of control for the school and the sub she will prepare as little as possible for her students to do in her absence.
What kind of teacher would do this?
One in which has some sort of "mental problem" herself or himself desiring to see harm come to her students and the school in her absence, or just a plain NOVICE teacher needing to be taught how to correctly leave lesson plans for her students while she is absent.
When the teacher fails to leave adequate lesson plans for the sub and school, and the students misbehave, who should be disciplined?
It should be the original teacher, as it is her fault the students did not continue without interruptions LEARNING.
It just makes perfect sense that when a teacher is going to be absent, she should leave in place "a continuing lesson" for her students.
Well what if the teacher wants to act as if what she teaches daily is something that cannot be taught in her absence? And suppose it really is a hands on kind of thing that would be difficult for a sub to implement.
In this case, the teacher should prepare lessons "similar" to what she is teaching or at least upon the same subject material.
Suppose it is just "projects" this teacher teaches. What kind of lessons should she prepare for her students, the school and the sub?
It does not take rocket science to figure this one out. Just prepare lesson plans from the BOOK. Is it Science? Well, if there is a Science book, prepare lessons from the book. The entire Science book is not about making projects. There are many ways a permanent teacher could incorporate the book material into a lesson plan easy enough for the sub to follow and to keep the students engaged in learning their subject in her absence.
If nothing else, for Pete's sake, just have them look up science words and copy down meanings, or some other kind of similar activity. I am certain there is more in a Science class book in which a COMPETENT teacher could incorporate into lesson plans.
Don't leave it up to the sub to continue your lesson plans.
Don't leave the sub a bunch of puzzles to give out to your students unrelated to their subject matter.
If the sub carries a sub pack, she might incorporate a crossword puzzle or something else into the lesson plan AFTER SHE HAS IMPLEMENTED THE ORIGINAL TEACHER'S lesson plan based upon the subject he or she is teaching.
I suppose if chaos breaks out due to an incompetent teacher not preparing adequately for the days he or she is going to be absent, in the immature teacher's mind IT WILL ALL BE BLAMED ON THE SUB. Perhaps this was original incompetent teacher's goal to begin with.
Perhaps the incompetent teacher desires to come back to a class of students who have misbehaved so she can then ABUSE them with lunch detentions and other idiotic methods of trying to punish the students.
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