[QUOTE="roseaster, post: 56507952, member: 469686"']
DON'T ask for work ahead of time. It makes extra work for the teacher. If the teacher gives you work ahead of time, or an assignment to while you are there he/she expects it to be done while you are there and handed in upon your return.
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I disagree with not asking for work as a former teacher. Don't expect the teachers to provide the work, but there is no harm in asking for what they can give you. It was much harder for me to help students get caught up the more days they had to make up. If they asked for work ahead of time, then that meant they tried to learn those lessons before returning. This allowed them to be able to catch up to what we were doing much faster. It's highly unlikely I could have given a student over a week's worth of work, but I could have told them what we were working on and given then a couple assignments to do. Doing ANYTHING is better than nothing. That student will be sitting in class completely confused upon returning. The faster the student can catch up the better - and giving some work allowed them to catch up faster. The school's policy was 2 days given for 1 day missed for excused absences, but when there were a lot, it was better to try to get caught up faster so they had less time sitting in class confused. The school's policy for unexcused absences was 0 days given to make up work. Meaning, it was not required and teachers were free to give the students zeros for all they missed. I never did because I cared about the learning, not the policy. But the school would have fully supported me had I decided to give students zeros for all the time they missed when not excused as that was the official policy.
DON'T ask for work ahead of time. It makes extra work for the teacher. If the teacher gives you work ahead of time, or an assignment to while you are there he/she expects it to be done while you are there and handed in upon your return.
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I disagree with not asking for work as a former teacher. Don't expect the teachers to provide the work, but there is no harm in asking for what they can give you. It was much harder for me to help students get caught up the more days they had to make up. If they asked for work ahead of time, then that meant they tried to learn those lessons before returning. This allowed them to be able to catch up to what we were doing much faster. It's highly unlikely I could have given a student over a week's worth of work, but I could have told them what we were working on and given then a couple assignments to do. Doing ANYTHING is better than nothing. That student will be sitting in class completely confused upon returning. The faster the student can catch up the better - and giving some work allowed them to catch up faster. The school's policy was 2 days given for 1 day missed for excused absences, but when there were a lot, it was better to try to get caught up faster so they had less time sitting in class confused. The school's policy for unexcused absences was 0 days given to make up work. Meaning, it was not required and teachers were free to give the students zeros for all they missed. I never did because I cared about the learning, not the policy. But the school would have fully supported me had I decided to give students zeros for all the time they missed when not excused as that was the official policy.