- Plan for limited technology or limited access.
- Predict student questions during assignment design.
- Share both questions and answers of unexpected questions in a timely manner.
- Ensure that current assignments are supported by what was taught and experienced while on campus?
- Avoid ambiguous language in assignment and instructions.
- Design independent work with clear and recognizable expectations.
- Support a student’s need to work ahead.
- Make the teacher’s presence known, supportive, and encouraging.
- Encourage and build in consistent need and means for communication.
- Respect the fact that older students are helping younger students or even taking on parental tasks in the home.
- Acknowledge that students are completing assignments at any given time during a 24-hour time period.
- Understand that discipline or a lack of discipline will reveal itself in student work; develop corrective and supportive measures for the student who lacks discipline.