I am positively *gleeful* right now.

One of the other teachers in my department was gone Thursday and Friday and she is absent again today. On Friday the sub got fired for gross incompetence because the class was totally out of control. We have no sub plans for today. I called her and got an idea of what she wanted then filled in the blanks with other stuff I think is appropriate. (I teach the same class.)

I put an overhead up in my class telling my kids to come in quietly, get out their books, and continue from where we left off on Friday.

I then went to the other classroom, put the agenda on the board, and read the class the riot act for a few minutes about how their behavior was utterly unacceptable and if they get out of line today they will have a stack of referals waiting, calls to their parents, and detentions for weeks to come on top of an apology letter. I told them that they lost their talking privilege and if anyone said even one word they were to be sent to my room to await punishment.

The sub said the kids barely breathed all period. They did their work quietly and were very respectful when they talked to him.

And when I came back into my room my perfect angels were reading the play and everyone was following along and being great. *grin* And I get to do this two more times today. Apparently I don’t need those classroom management seminars I am going to later this week.