When I started teaching some 13 years ago, my day often started with a visit to the staffroom to see if I had a slip of paper attached to my locker door.
This slip was to inform you of the details of the cover lesson you had been allocated that day, in place of your non-contact marking and planning time.
Such things are of course a thing of the past. Since the introduction of “rarely cover”, teachers are only used to cover lessons when unforeseen circumstances arise. However, at some point in your career, for whatever reason, you will find yourself in a situation that requires you to quickly plan a lesson – often for a subject you know little or nothing about – in the five minutes it takes you to walk to the classroom.
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