Substitute teachers
A whole day, printed, from your phone, in five minutes. Free, no sign-in, and nothing you choose leaves your phone.
Make today's plan ▸Grade, the times, what the teacher left. Get every block, every sheet with its key, the breaks and a note to leave.I have minutes left ▸Three no-prep activities that fit the time and the room: quiet, no paper, no screen.
This week's pick
Sort it out (1–5, 5–15 min). Write twelve words or numbers in a jumble. Students sort them into two or three groups and say the rule: odd and even, animals and plants, nouns and verbs.
You need: the board and a marker.
Sub plans by grade
All 40 sample plans: a whole day, reading or math at each grade, and middle school ELA and math.
Minutes left
What to do with that much time, at any grade, with nothing prepared.
The teacher who's out
Tools a sub uses all day
More for subs
- First day as a substitute: the checklist
- The substitute's note to the teacher
- For the teacher who's out: leaving sub plans
- Emergency sub folder template
- The sub bag: what a substitute should bring
- My sub log
- My sub résumé sheet
- Reading pack for subs, K–8
- Math pack for subs, K–8
- Writing pack for subs, K–8
- Science pack for subs, K–8
- Social studies pack for subs, K–8
- Any subject pack for subs, K–8
- Which grade is this passage for?
- The first five minutes: a quiz for subs
- What would you do? Ten moments for a substitute
- Sub lingo: the words on a sub plan
- The note: say what happened, not who is what
- Minutes left: pick the activity that fits
- Brain break or not? A quiet-room quiz
- The lunch count: a sub's one bit of arithmetic
- Attention signals: which one fits the room?
- Pack the sub bag
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