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Classes don't have to be a waste of time when the teacher is away

Most teachers have movies they'd like to show their students, if only they could find the time

Movies that further curriculum goals can keep students engaged and advance their learning

Set Up The Sub Templates for Use with Any Film

"Set Up the Sub" templates allow teachers in any subject to be sure that when they are away, students will focus on curriculum and the attainment of standards.

-- Checklist for Teachers Setting up the Sub -- all subjects;

-- Instructions to the Substitute -- all subjects;

-- Film Study Worksheet for English Language Arts and Literature classes (Worksheets for classes in other subjects will vary, depending on the movie and the curriculum to which the movie relates.)

Here's How To Do It: Keep a pre-selected DVD (or VHS tape) in your classroom along with any handouts, readings, and other materials that the substitute will need. The Checklist for Teachers will prompt you to take all the steps you need to complete the lesson plan. The Instructions to the Substitute will prompt you to give the substitute all the important directions. If necessary, as the class moves forward in the curriculum, select a different film and prepare new materials in case you are absent. Keep the materials you have already prepared for the same time period next year.

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Set Up The Sub Lesson Plans for Specific Films:

-- Cast Away Set Up The Sub Lesson Plan (Literature/Literary Devices: expository phase; motif; symbol; theme development; dramatic irony) [Grades 9 - 12]

-- The Simpsons -- Set Up the Sub Drills for Recognizing Irony Using Episodes from The Simpsons - Ninth Season (Literature/Literary Devices - Irony) [Grades 9 - 12] [Coming in February, 2009]

Why Set Up the Sub?

When class time is well spent, everyone benefits: the students, the classroom teacher, and the sub. The substitute needs clear lesson plans that will keep students occupied and out of trouble; the teacher needs to know that class time isn't wasted and that attention is being paid to meeting educational goals, such as fulfilling curriculum standards; the students need to have their attention held, so that in order to pass the time, they don't have to resort to dropping books on queue or propelling various objects at their classmates. A well planned lesson based on a film can meet each of these needs.

Substitutes can come to a job with a lesson plan, including the film, in tow, in case no formal plans have been left by the regular teacher.

Most teachers have films they would like to show their students but they hesitate to spend the class time necessary to see an entire movie. Yet, when the teacher is absent due to a conference, an illness or an emergency, substitutes are all too often primarily baby sitters. With Set Up the Sub, class time that would otherwise be wasted or of little value, can be used to both show the film and further students' education. This web page published August 20, 2008.

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