Assignment #5

Today I revisted the educational blog entitled "The Innovative Educator". I read a recent posting about a lesson plan one teacher created for her class when they had a substitute teacher. She actually created an interesting assignment that utilized technology to ascertain the science background of her students. The lesson even had extensions to be used by the regular teacher or other substitutes. Whether or not the substitute lesson plan succeeded or not is unknown to date, as the plan has not yet been implemented. The teacher's intention for creating the lesson plan was to eliminate the disruption in her class due to having a substitute teacher.

I have substituted for quite a few teachers at the elementary and middle school level and while the above mentioned idea sound godd on paper, I honestly do not think that it is going to eliminate the disruption that exists in a classroom due to the regular teacher being absent and a substitute teacher being present. The eruption exists because most students see a chance to deviate from their regular classroom activity and get away with it because the substitute teacher has no idea who they are so their will be no punishment. In most classes, the best and most interesting of lesson plans is not going to engage the students enough so that it is business as usual.

I did however, think it was great that the regular classroom teacher was actually trying to come up with a way to make things easier for her sub.