Theoretically, as a teacher you are more likely to be off work for illness than employees of most other professions due to the high number of children that you encounter on a daily basis.
Yet the DfE reports that teachers take an average of just 7.9 days off each year – similar to the average number of days taken by employees from across all sectors, according to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE).
It is thought that the presence of a culture of fear in schools often prevents teachers from taking the time off that they need when they are ill, but perhaps greater than this is the pressure that teachers put on themselves to get back to teaching before they’re ready.
With this in mind we’ve produced The Absent German Teacher Worksheet Series.
So if you are ill, at least you know that your students will always have work to do – which will hopefully relieve the pressure a little bit.
The worksheets within the volume cover a wide range of topics and range of ability – and are all designed so that they can be used as a one-off in an emergency, or as a series of highly varied tasks over a number of days, should the absence be unexpectedly protracted.
Activities range from a discussion about what happened to Berlin after the Second World War, to completing a Wordsearch revolving around the topic of Oktoberfest (for example).
Each topic area is followed by a wide range of questions, an extension task through which the students are required to translate a passage into German, and a homework task in which they have to write ten short sentences in English and translate as much of each sentence as they can into German using a dictionary.
The volume aims to increase your students’ knowledge of Germany, covering topics such as, Oktoberfest, Albert Einstein, Munich, the Berlin wall, Volkswagen Beetle, facts about Germany, etc. etc.
You can order The Absent German Teacher Worksheet Series online as a download for £10 by visiting http://www.absent-teacher.com/eworkbooks.html
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