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Emergency Lesson Plans Are A Great Idea

Filed Under Dealing With Stress, Organization, The Way I See It 

Emergency lesson plans are a great idea. They’ve made my life so much easier on many occasions. I create a few lesson plans to use when there is an emergency- if I’m away from school, if I’m at school but not well and can’t think, if my originally planned lesson just doesn’t work etc. Basically these lessons are there for me to use when things aren’t going well. I usually use www.edhelper.com to create the lessons and then I print a class set and keep them in a file in my drawer labeled emergency lesson plans. There are lots and lots of activities on edhelper that you can use to fill in for those times when the wheels fall off the teaching wagon. I usually include a reading activity with questions and a word search for vocabulary and some other activity. There are reading activities for math and science as well as English, history etc. It’s amazing what’s available. With a little imagination and foresight you can be prepared for those days when nothing seems to go well- like today. :)

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5 Responses to “Emergency Lesson Plans Are A Great Idea”

  1. Brett on November 7th, 2006 2:38 am

    The edhelper link is broken. Great blog, I read it often.

  2. Elona on November 7th, 2006 4:10 am

    Brett, thanks for the heads up about the broken link to edhelper. I’ve fixed it, and thanks for the encouragement. I really enjoy writing my blog and hope that you find it useful.

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  5. Ilchi Lee on September 4th, 2008 3:41 pm

    That’s a great Idea, that concept will also work well in my line of work, some days I’m not up to the challenge mentally. A contingency plan should pay dividends.

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