{"id":1146,"date":"2008-03-08T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teacher-absence\/"},"modified":"2008-03-08T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T18:42:00","slug":"teacher-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teacher-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher Absences hurt learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my lost posts from the DNS problems, but VERY revelant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22686809\/\">http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22686809\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is really true in the computer science classroom, as the best I can hope for in a sub is a babysitter.&#160;Physically things are not too bad.&#160; The hall pass is missing and I&#8217;ve alerted the administrators AND replaced it.<\/p>\n<p>As for learning &#8212; not as many assignments got turned in as I would like.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This six weeks was very hard for my webmastering students.  We did Flash, and it is not a piece of software I am comfrtable with.&#160; We&#8217;re using an older version and the online tutorials do not work as well as they could.&#160; Plus we don&#8217;t have a book or other reference.&#160; Debugging Flash is hard for me.&#160; Doing Flash is hard for the kids.&#160; The good news, is that now we are doing Dreamweaver and I am very comfortable with it.<\/p>\n<p>My computer science kiddos are just not putting the time and energy into the class they need to.&#160;The majority are not taking it seriously and are not asking for help.&#160; They waste a lot of class time.<\/p>\n<p>The good news is that the PreAP kids are doing the best.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>And my favorite CS kiddo has gained an new appreciation for me, because she got stuck on Monday, and i called in on Tuesday and got her unstuck over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>I still think the trip was worth it, but it did make the week even harder &#8212; I was gone Thursday and Friday, which were the end of the six weeks.&#160;Also gone Monday and Tuesday.&#160; Monday traveling and Tuesday recovering and grading(and I did work all day Saturday and Sunday!).&#160; I   never would have gotten the work graded if I had came in , as it was, I finished about 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday was ELA testing day and only 7th period met.&#160;<\/p>\n<p>And now we are out for spring break&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of my lost posts from the DNS problems, but VERY revelant http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22686809\/ This is really true in the computer science classroom, as the best I can hope for in a sub is a babysitter.&#160;Physically things are not too bad.&#160; The hall pass is missing and I&#8217;ve alerted the administrators AND replaced it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}