Responsibilities as a counselor sub
Hello!
So long story short, hopefully, but I am a displaced counselor in my district. What that means is, I still have a job as a counselor, but I’m not assigned to a particular school permanently. I get moved around a lot throughout the semester unless the school asked to keep me. Right now I’m basically a glorified helper.
I was recently assigned to a high school. I’ve been helping out with college stuff, but this week I’ve been assigned as a substitute teacher for a French class. The French teacher has not left any work for me to assign to the students. My understanding of substitute teachers is usually that they implement the lessons that the teacher leaves behind for them, or monitors that work that they’ve been assigned through their student portals.
This teacher has done none of that. Is it my responsibility to create curriculum for these classes? I do not speak French. I’m trying to figure out what the best course of action is, I like to be helpful and I don’t want these kids to just be sitting for the next week, but I also am not a teacher, and I don’t think that I am responsible for creating work for them. But I don’t know.
Has anyone ever encountered something like this? Do you have any suggestions on who at school would be appropriate for me to talk to about this? I don’t wanna make waves, I like this school so far and ideally, I would like to stay here this year, but I also don’t want to be seen as someone who will do whatever whenever just not to rock the boat.