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  1. What to do if a teacher loses your work?

    If you are 100% sure you did the work see if your parent will intervene. Gather the names of other students this has happened to. I would have your parent first contact the teacher and if he refuses to change the grade go above his head to guidance counselor or vice principal. At my son's school I was warned about a particular teacher who ...

  2. How do I work out a problem with a teacher who loses the assignments I

    The next time you turn in an assignment, stick around after class for a minute to have your teacher write her initials and the date next to the assignment listed in your book. If there's any question later about whether or not the assignment was turned in, you'll have a written record.

  3. How to deal with missing & late-work: one teacher's approach

    As such, I've broken the thread into segments so that I can provide additional details about how to address the late work issue in meaningful ways without using grade penalties and without losing your sanity. Part 1: Organizing Assignments into Essential vs. Non-essential. Tweets: This Tweet probably needs the most explanation. If you remove ...

  4. Disciplinary Actions

    The discipline can range from a written reprimand to a monetary fine, suspension without pay to the loss of your job. If you are terminated, you will lose your New York City teaching license (s). However, your permanent state certification cannot be revoked without another hearing. In some cases, teachers who are awaiting disciplinary charges ...

  5. Teachers' Rights: Tenure and Dismissal

    Teacher tenure is a promise or agreement that a teacher will have their job for a specific amount of time. In many states, after working for a certain period, a teacher can earn tenure. However, this amount of time depends on the state tenure statutes, which vary by state. This system protects public school teachers from losing their jobs.

  6. Missing Assignments--and the Real World

    The two mega-issues that emerge whenever teachers talk about missing assignments and justifying their actions toward late work are grades--always grades--and the idea that we owe kids "real ...

  7. A Few Ideas for Dealing with Late Work

    One teacher gives "Next Class Passes" which allow students one extra day to turn in work. At the end of every marking period she gives extra credit points to students who still have unused passes. She says that since she started doing this, she has had the lowest rate ever of late work. 4. Extension Requests.

  8. 7 Classroom Management Mistakes—and the Research on How to ...

    Mistake #6: Expecting compliance. It's a losing battle to expect compliance from students without putting in the emotional work. Demand it and many students will simply rebel, test boundaries, or engage in power struggles. Good classroom management requires that you build a solid relationship based on trust and empathy: "Classroom ...

  9. Dealing With Students Missing Exams and In-Class Graded Assignments

    The oral required assignment also can be delivered just to the teacher or videotaped or turned in on audiotape. Alternative assignments. As with missed exams, you can weigh other assignments disproportionately to substitute for in-class graded work — by doubling a similar assignment if you have more than one during the semester, for example.

  10. Late Assignments: Tips From Educators on Managing Them

    Accepting an assignment late gives them time to get motivated or set up one-to-one support so they can focus on the work when they are ready. I do not want to distract students with rules ...

  11. Teachers' Rights: Contracts

    A teacher's employment contract is a legally binding agreement. This agreement is between a teacher and a public school or school system. It's important to review your contract when you accept a new teaching position. The employment contract contains important details such as: The duration of employment. The teacher's obligations.

  12. Why it's hard for students to "just turn in" missing assignments, and

    As a parent, it can be stressful to see that your student has overdue work, or get notifications from their teacher that they're missing assignments. It's even more frustrating when you've told them over and over again how important it is to "just turn it in"…but the work is still showing up as missing.

  13. What do you do when a teacher loses your assignments?

    If that doesn't work, the department of state education. Make copies. Make sure they are clearly dated (either electronically or by hand). Email her the copies and request a read-receipt. Last ditch effort, make a "turn in sheet" and force your teachers to sign off that you turned in the assignment.

  14. 3 Ways to Survive Forgetting Your Homework at School

    1. Find your book at the library if possible. It is very likely that a copy of the book will be held at your school's library. You may be able to search by the name of your course, the course number, or your teacher's name. If the library at your school is not open, a public library may also have the book.

  15. What should you do if you lose your student's exam?

    $\begingroup$ I have. Students appreciate the message about grade reflecting understanding and really value the idea of a grade being fair. I usually nudge towards the retake - connecting to the final if that's a comprehensive thing.

  16. What's a good way to prevent students from saying I lost their paper?

    As a teacher, I've often had students say that they turned in an assignment, but that because I don't see it, grade it, and return it back to them, that I must have lost their papers/assignments. I tend to be disorganized at times, so it's hard for me to confidently say that I really haven't lost their papers.

  17. Rethinking Deadline and Late Penalty Policies…Again

    Rethinking Deadline and Late Penalty Policies…Again. Some of the recurring topics on Faculty Focus in the past ten years pertain to handling excuses, extension requests, and late work, because teachers regularly deal with those issues. Suggested remedies range from giving one-time grace to assuming deception as the norm.

  18. Methods for Managing Late Work

    Methods for Managing Late Work. Examining the reasoning behind your assessments can help shape your approach to tardy work, says Jennifer Gonzalez. When she was teaching, Jennifer Gonzalez used to plod through a "pointless" exercise at the end of the term: allowing a few students to complete late assignments and then docking their scores by ...

  19. grades

    Yes, tell the teacher. It's just the right thing to do. If for some reason you need a self-serving reason: the teacher will immediately realise that your solution is exactly the same as theirs, the whole assignment will have to be reset and you and everyone else will have to do another piece of work.

  20. I think i might have lost a students test, what should I do?

    KiraiEclipse. •. The teacher lost the test, she should give the student the highest grade. As a teacher we have no problem giving a 0 to a student that lost his homework, we should have no problem giving a 100 when we lose the student's work. Absolutely not.

  21. Teacher Tenure & Due Process Protections for Educators

    Published: April 4, 2023. Tenure status often provides the broadest protections for teachers at the K-12 level and for professors at the higher education level. At the K-12 level, tenure laws prevent a school district from dismissing a tenured teacher without good reason. These protections are not available to all educators—tenure is ...

  22. Educator Resignations and Requests for Contract Release

    If the district agrees to release the educator from the contract, the educator is free to go. Educators should be sure the person telling them they can resign has the authority to do so. Most districts have authorized the superintendent to accept resignations, and many have authorized the human resources director.

  23. Academic Misconduct Explained Simply

    Yes, this happens. Your university can request copies of the raw data you used in your assignments and dissertation/thesis at any point. Be sure to keep backups of your raw data (ideally, on a cloud-based drive like Dropbox or Google Drive) until such a time that your school can no longer reasonably request them (typically graduation).