Tag Archives: flu
What Teachers Should Do about Swine Flu
Late last month, New York school nurse Mary Pappas sent 102 students home sick on a Thursday and 80 more home the following day. Pappas recognized early that the illness students in her Queens high school had wasn’t the common cold, so she called New York City Health department. The supervising doctor put Pappas in touch with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. St. Francis Preparatory School closed for a week after health officials confirmed the illness was the swine flu (H1N1 virus). Continue reading
Classroom Management: Handling Absent Students
One February the ’flu hit our high school and kids were absent for days at a time. When they returned, ashen-faced and fatigued, no one mobbed me for their missing work. They sat in their seats and worked on the sponge activity instead.
I had a system in place for absent students and their missing work, so everyone was calm and not coughing over me while I took roll. Continue reading
Substitute Teachers: Preparing for a Guest Teacher
The teacher returns to her classroom after a bout of the ‘flu. She’s weak, she’s tired, and her classroom desks are scattered like leaves on the ground. Her head hurt before she saw her classroom, but now it really hurts.
Here’s how to make sure that your guest teacher/substitute teacher has a good experience in your classroom and that you come back to happy kids and an orderly room. Continue reading
