Laura Shannon Phillips Blog
The purpose of this blog is for teacher collaboration. It is designed to be a place where teachers can come to share ideas to benefit their classrooms. I am starting this blog as a fulfillment of an educational requirement for EDM 510.
Make-Up Work HELP!!!
I have been teaching at the high school level for a few years now and I love most aspects. However, there is one thing in particular that I struggle with, make-up work. I seem to always have students absent. Because high school teachers have between 80 and 90 students a day, I have a hard time keeping up with who was absent and what they missed. The process of making up work seems to take weeks and does not seem to be fair to the students who were at school. Although not everyone is a high school teacher, we all attended high school and might have learned something from a teacher we had in the past. I am interested in any suggestions. Let me give you a few examples of my struggles:
-How do you know an assignment is a make-up assignment and not just late?
-Late homework. I like to grade homework quickly and get it back to students. If I have already given back corrected homework, did the make-up student complete it on their own or did they copy? What should I do?
-How long do you accept late homework, quizzes, or tests? A week, a month?
-Does anyone have a way to make up missed labs?
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