About Garden Schools
FAQ
DBE Homeschooling
Mountainside Camp
Mountainside School
DBE Accreditation
DBE Foundation
School Magazines
Bookstore & Publishing
Working Knowledge
Employment

The Ten Best Strategies

For

Succeeding With Distance Learning

At

Burton's Garden of Schools

 

  • Work on your assignments at a time that suits you and your family’s schedule. When are your parents going to be available to help you with your least favorite subjects? When are you going to have enough peace and quiet to get your work done?

  • Chose the right days to work on your assignments. Plan a schedule and modify it as you go making changes you can live with and succeed with. Try the traditional work load of one lesson of each subject each day of the work week. Try two lessons in each subject every other day. Mix things up and work only on the weekends or two days a week. Whatever works best for you, try to complete no less than 4 lessons in each subject for each week. This will give you one day to get caught up on subjects you may have fallen behind in or time to get ahead and correspond with your teachers about your progress.

  • Write down your plan in the easiest way to manage each weeks work load. You might keep a simple list of the lessons and cross them off as you complete them. You might print out a weeks worth of lessons and work on them off and on for a few days then set down and enter the whole week all at once.

  • Does the load seem too much to handle with all the other activities you work so hard at? Lighten your load a little by taking long weekends and several short planned vacations during your busiest times and continue to work this way all year. Several small breaks is better suited to most students and avoiding long winter and summer vacations keeps you from forming bad habits when you enter the work force of adult life.

Just keep in mind the goal is a minimum of 180 lessons in each subject area for each school year.

 

  • If you are unhappy with the number of lessons you are reworking or find that you are unable to get the grade you would like then have someone check your finished work before you turn it in to be graded. You can also send a rough draft (label it that way!) to your teacher to look over if you have trouble with a writing assignment.

  • Write to your teachers and classmates! You will find it easier to ask for help if you get to know each other first. Tell your administrators your ideas for the school and the coffee shop. Change takes time but it can’t happen without input and your ideas are inspiring so share your thoughts.

  • Do the lessons you like the least first. Everything comes to an end sooner or latter. If you don’t like the subject the topic will eventually change and if you just don’t like the style of the lessons the teacher will change as you progress on to new learning levels. So work through the tough spots and put them behind you.

  • Are you so far behind you think you can never catch up? Pull out all the stops and ask for help! Any lesson that seems too hard, reply to the teacher with a comment that the assignment is too hard and you would like to be moved to an easier level. Set a goal and work the way you think is best for you. You might do 20 lessons in your least favorite subject and then 20 in your most favorite topic. No one said you have to be traditional! Do a little every day you can do a whole years worth of assignments as fast as you can and take a long break before you start again.

  • Did I say ASK FOR HELP?! Ask your teachers, ask your classmates, ask your administrators, ask your parents, your little sister or you cousin. If you don’t ask you can’t receive. So start with a prayer to the Great Provider and then set out to find the right plan for you. You can succeed in your own time in your own way at Burton's Garden of Schools!

 

Since 1993