Due to illness or other circumstances in their lives, some students will need to miss classes on occasion. Planning how you will approach missed classes and assignments will make it easier for you to address the unexpected and for students to continue to learn in your course.
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Students can have difficulties in the classroom as the result of academic or personal challenges as well as circumstances at Penn, in Philadelphia or more globally. As teachers, we can help students to better meet those challenges, both by connecting them with Penn resources and though the choices we make in our classes. The pages described here offer suggestions and resources to help instructors provide that support for our students.
Strategies to Help Students Stay on Track When They Must Miss Class
Teaching in Response to Upsetting Events
In the wake of traumatic international, national, or Penn events, students may be angry, saddened, or anxious. Instructor responses to such events often matter deeply to students.
Learn MoreResources to Support Your Students
Penn has a wealth of offices to support students in academic and personal difficulties. Letting students know about the appropriate office, or consulting it yourself, can help them with those difficulties.
Learn MorePractices for Teaching Students Living with Stress and Trauma
Students experience a wide variety of stresses in their lives, circumstances that may affect them in our classes. Designing our classes to take that stress into account can help our students to learn and thrive in our courses.
Learn MoreCombining Structure and Flexibility in Your Courses
By giving students clear expectations and steps to take on a regular basis to succeed but also being prepared to provide students other options to continue to learn and demonstrate their learning when circumstances demand it, we can benefit all our students, particularly when life is most complicated.
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