I can't go today!

Sometimes we can't go to work.
When shouldn't we go to work, first of all?!
- When we get sick;
- When we have an appointment with a doctor;
- When we have a very important test/work at college;
- When something very urgent happens with somebody from your family.

So, this week I have this birthday in another city. It's my mom's partner/best friend's 50th birthday. There's no way could say no.
And what to do when you have somebody else leading your students?
How can we have some control of it?

Of course we can't control everything, but we can have some idea of how the class will be if we prepare it very well to the other teacher. And obviously, every teacher teaches differently. So, even if you prepare very well it won't be exactly as you planned.

- First of all, prepare your students for the change and then leave a message telling the sub teacher how are the students, what are their difficulties, who needs more attention, etc.
- After, you can tell the sub teacher what that class should acomplish on that day.
- Leave a note telling what are the home productions and the due dates.
- Leave the papers that need to be handed back corrected.
- If you don't know how the teacher teaches, prepare extra papers with the content and some exercises for the students to practice, and you can correct next class.
- On the next class, just ask the students how it was and clear any doubt.

Hope it's helpful!