The AI Substitute Teacher Lesson Plan Template

What a sub plan needs that a regular plan doesn't

A substitute needs to know things a regular teacher takes for granted: which students are on which bus, which student has a medical accommodation, who to send to the office if there's a behavior issue, where the fire drill exit is, and what to do if a student refuses to participate. A good sub plan template includes all of that logistics info before it gets to the instructional content.

• Class schedule with exact start and end times

• Student roster notes (medical, behavior, IEP logistics)

• Emergency procedures and referral contacts

• Minute-by-minute lesson activities with materials pre-staged

Three sub plan scenarios

Sub plans come in three flavors: the planned absence (you know you'll be out for a conference, so you write detailed plans), the sick day (you're writing the plan at 5 a.m. with a fever), and the emergency plan (left in the filing cabinet for the day you can't plan at all). This generator produces all three — the planned absence plan is the most detailed, the sick-day plan is faster to write, and the emergency plan uses generic activities that work without a specific unit context.

Keep a generic emergency plan on file

Most schools require teachers to keep a generic emergency sub plan in a filing cabinet for days when planning isn't possible. Run this generator once at the start of the year with 'generic emergency sub plan for [subject, grade]' and save the output in your classroom. The activities inside don't depend on a specific unit — they're stand-alone tasks a sub can hand out and a class can complete without context.