An age-old\u00a0question perhaps. How do you create great learning opportunities for your students when you are not in the room, not knowing which teacher with which experience\u00a0will be covering your classes. It’s a particularly\u00a0difficult question for me this Friday as I just found out I won’t be in class on Monday, but my major assessment for the unit was today with a carryover on Monday. They are presentations.<\/p>\n
I don’t like leaving work periods, but sometimes this is awesome for the kids if there are major assignments coming up. There are not. I don’t love leaving worksheets as they seem like such a hollow experience compared to what I know we would be doing in class.<\/p>\n
Sometimes I leave a video\/comprehension questions. Sometimes I leave a tic-tac-toe\u00a0board they need to fill out and basically do three in a row based on their own learning styles (videos vs articles vs games).<\/p>\n
How do you create authentic learning experiences for your classes when you are not present to read the learning, change the pace or redirect students who are confused and lost in the material?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
An age-old\u00a0question perhaps. How do you create great learning opportunities for your students when you are not in the room, not knowing which teacher with which experience\u00a0will be covering your classes. It’s a particularly\u00a0difficult question for me this Friday as I just found out I won’t be in class on Monday, but my major assessment … Continue reading “How do you engage your kids when you are not there?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-reflections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/mary-ellenwilcox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}