Tips & Tricks for Distance Learning

At home Tips and Recommendations for Distance Learning

Included below are ideas and recommendations to support your child while they are learning from home. These ideas can be used with any child; you can use one or all of the strategies at a time. If you feel your child could use more support to stay on task and complete their schoolwork, employ as many of these strategies as possible. Each recommendation listed has a more complete descriptions linked. Click the suggestion to learn more.

1. Create a Schedule

2. Create a space for academic time away from other distractions

3. Mix academic tasks with preferred or non-academic activities

4. Use timers and motivation to keep kids focused and on task

5. Embed different types of school work into everyday activities

6. Use token boards (aka star charts) to track activities completed and rewards earned

7. Save preferred activities for incentives

8. Recommendations for non-compliance and work refusal

9. Additional resources

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