I think its easy to get frustrated when students miss school. They miss instruction, they miss tests, and it is incredibly hard to differentiate to ensure they get the content while their peers are ready to move on... but here is a positive way to look at it:
This is an incredible opportunity for your students who have been present to be the teachers! They always say that the best way to learn is to teach.
1) You now have a formative assessment to make sure that those present students really did master the material.
2) The students who were absent get caught up by their peers. The peers could make movies for them, design problems/assignments for them to do, and it gives a good review lesson for those peers too. They will cement their understanding of those skills and then everyone will get caught up before you have to move on.
Instead of seeing absences as a challenge, lets look at it as an opportunity! I am excited to start this project!
No comments:
Post a Comment