Make each student feel that his or her presence is valued every day. Give group members the responsibility for getting each other to class. Encourage students to call each other after being absent to see what was missed. Students should do any homework that was assigned while they were out. Making up class activities might require the student to come in before or after school with other absentees or to do the activity alone.
Students can often pick up details from group members and from later activities.
Like absence, this is an issue in many classrooms, but in IMP, the assignments are not just practice of what was done in class that day, and they often provide essential preparation for the following day. This makes it vital that students do their homework regularly. There is no magic elixir that you can give your students to make them do their homework every night. Hold discussions on the role of homework in the IMP curriculum. Use your grading system to show the value you place on homework and POWs.