I used teachhub.com to find an educational blog. The one that I found postd helpful ideas on how to best prepare for yours and your students' absences to try and make things easier for you the teacher. You can read my comment by clicking the link below:
TeachHub Blog
There were many ideas that I liked in this article including the common info sheet for the sub, creating different (and slightly harder assignments) for the absentee, and making the homework available to students a week in advance by posting it online (resonates with my tech in ed class) to make it easier for students to keep up.
I also liked that I saw content area from two of my classes reflected in the material of the blog. In classrooom management, we are all about installing procedures to make your life easier, and this was a large emphasis in this blog. Also, for tech in ed, it was suggested that homework be put up a week at a time so that students can keep up the best they can when they are gone.
I hope that my comment (it was the first one) encouraged the writer in the ideas that she was putting out. I commented on my status as a student and the overlap that I saw with classes that I am currently taking. I also commented about the ideas that I really liked. However, I think what contributed the most to a community of learners was my comment about other methods that we've learned about preventing headaches for teachers due to absences by using tech resources such as videos and the SMART board.
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Shayna,
ReplyDeleteI can imagine how frustrating such seemingly insignificant chores must be in the teaching profession. We're passionate about reaching kids and sharing our treasures of knowledge - not keeping track of attendance and organizing their work. I like the practicality of your comment because whether we like it or not, absent work has to be arranged somehow - and why not put the technological resources we're learning to good use while making this task more efficient? :)