Managing Students' Absent Work............... the easy way
Managing Absent Students Work In my first couple years of teaching I felt like I had a step ahead of everyone else knowing that I wanted to have a plan for students to get missing work when they were absent in my class. Over the years with the help of other teachers I have tweaked the concept of “less work for me when a student is gone” and feel pretty confident in how smoothly things run. I have a half sheet of paper that has information on it specific for my class and the routines that we do. When I do attendance at the beginning of each hour I take the extra 30 seconds to write each students’ names on each absent slip that are gone. (I do NOT fill out the absent form at this time). By getting their names down by the end of the day I have a neat pile (sometimes large sometimes small) of the students that need missing work. The next step can be done in two ways. I know as teachers we are always super BUSY during the hour with our students but any spare moments that I ha...
