{"id":1162,"date":"2008-01-18T12:07:11","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T12:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teacher-absen-1\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T12:07:11","slug":"teacher-absen-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/teacher-absen-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher absences hurt learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is REALLY true in the computer science classroom. I am not out often, and try to keep it to one day at a time. I went to TCEA for a week once, and found my classroom in complete chaos when I came back.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t find anyone who can instruct the students at all.  My criteria for a sub:  there hasn&#8217;t been a fight when she&#8217;s been in the room, there hasn&#8217;t been major equipment missing &#8212; this year, whenever I&#8217;m out a mouse disappears.  It&#8217;s happened twice.   Weird, but I think it is a student punishing me.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m worried about the Game workshop, I&#8217;ll be out three days, at the end of the six weeks.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/22686809\/\">Teacher absences are hurting learning &#8211; Education- msnbc.com<\/a><br \/>\nDuke University economist Charles Clotfelter, among a handful of researchers who have closely studied the issue, says the image of spitballs flying past a daily substitute often reflects reality. &quot;Many times substitutes don&#8217;t have the plan in front of them,&quot; Clotfelter said. &quot;They don&#8217;t have all the behavioral expectations that the regular teachers have established, so it&#8217;s basically a holding pattern.&quot;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is REALLY true in the computer science classroom. I am not out often, and try to keep it to one day at a time. I went to TCEA for a week once, and found my classroom in complete chaos when I came back. I can&#8217;t find anyone who can instruct the students at all. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teaching-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","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=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}