Something new this semester is the creation of a Sub Binder. I had a basic one going but all the teachers have been asked to make a very detailed one.
For me that means an obnoxious amount of extra lessons since I don't know if a sub will have a music background and I have trust issues both with some of my students and subs. Having been a sub for a year I completely get the paranoia now and I'm trying my best to be as detailed as possible without overwhelming someone but that's proving to be tricky.
My go-to lesson has always been a musical movie. But my former principal nixed that and then laptops started to not have CD/DVD drives which made that even harder. I also have a very old unreliable stereo that just collects dust in my room
Teachers Pay Teachers has some great sub plans that I've purchased that have been my lifesavers with one small problem: audio recordings. I can easily make a CD which I have for some but the CD player on my stereo is not the greatest. That was my only snag when it came to some of the awesome activities I had purchased.
As I was cleaning out my desk at home I came across mine and my husband's collection of old iPods that had been replaced by iPads and phones. I had been meaning to bring them back to the Apple store for recycling and store credits and I just never got around to it. Then it all came to me: PLAYLISTS!
One of those things that I should have thought of instantly and would have made my life so much easier when I had to take time off before. Here's hoping my iPod I bought in 2009 can tough it out
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