North Marion High School Week 4

This past week at North Marion went well, however, there are a few things that I learned to help me become a better teacher. This placement has been very different than my past experiences and it has been interesting trying to adjust. There are many students who don't come to school for many days in a row. This week has taught me how important it is to stay organized with missed assignments and what they need to make up and what they can't. I not only need to be organized with their papers that they missed but also be organized and keep up with edline and make sure I immediately mark things that can not be made up and mark things that can be made up but do not have a grade yet. My mentor teacher keeps folders in the classroom for the students to keep their papers in and I usually put their missing work in the folders, but I need to make sure I only put in what they need to make up and the date that we did it on. I got a little mixed up this week with a few make up papers, but in the end it all worked out. I think in the future I will try to have a more organized way to keep my papers for myself and my students to help make make up work go more smoothly. I would like to have a filing folder or something to keep each chapters papers in with the dates on the tabs or something along those lines. I would also like to have a 'mailbox' for each student that I could easily put what they missed in it. I am also having a difficult time with knowing how to handle a student that has already missed 10 days of school. It is hard to move on with everyone else when you have a student who has no idea what you are talking about. There is usually a few minutes at the end of class for students to start homework and I can spend time with the students who were absent, but you can't make up 10 days in five minutes. This is an issue that I think has to be dealt with differently in different situations, but I am currently struggling with what the best option is.