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Schools don’t typically teach children how to study for tests. Some children manage well regardless, but others need step-by-step guidance. Here are some suggestions you can use to help your child prepare for tests, eliminate night-before panics, and lessen test anxiety.
Before The Test
Find out the teacher’s system for scheduling tests. Some tests might be given [...]
Teachers have heard many excuses about homework they given to students, the first teacher made the first homework assignment. As long as teachers keep giving homework, most students will keep trying to get out of doing it.
Why do teachers bother with homework? Why do they continue to inflict homework on kids, their parents, and themselves? [...]
Posted in Homework Help, Homework Helper, Kids, Tutor 
Tags: Homework, Homework Help, Homework Helper, homework planSome children absolutely cannot or will not do their homework despite rewards, consequences, promises or threats, and despite the best and most caring efforts of parents, teachers, tutors, and other concerned persons. If your child’s problems resist any and all of the troubleshooting strategies outlined in this article, you probably need professional assistance. Ask the [...]
Try going round in circles? The way of getting a small group of students know each othe is to get them sitting in a circle. Ask one to say his or her name, then the person to the left to say, ‘I am… and this is my friend…’ Carry on round the circle, adding one [...]
Maintain two-way communication with your child.
Don’t just lecture. Listen and respond to what your child has to say. When you respond, don’t plead or argue. (Pleading puts your child in charge; arguing creates a no-win situation.) Instead, respond assertively and positively.
Don’t give your child a choice unless you mean it.
Instead of saying, “Would you like [...]
Q: I get home from work just in time to fix dinner. My daughter has gymnastics after school and eats dinner as soon as she gets home. Both of us are exhaunsted afterward. How can we possibly fit homework in?
A: Your case is an exception to our “do-the-hardest-homework-first” rule. You may want to try letting [...]
Your children isn’t interested in doing his homework if you answer YES to any of the following:
You and your children engage in nightly battles over when homework will be done.
Your children rush through homework assignments, with sloppy, incomplete results.
Your children “forget” to bring their homework assignments home.
You do more of the homework than your children [...]
When your children were very young, you made most of their decisions for them. You structured their activities, planned their meals, and made sure they go to bed on time. Even when you began to guide them into making choices of their own, you still probably kept very close tabs on what those choices were. [...]
Good question, and before we go any further, it needs an answer.
Homework is important for reasons that are obvious and reasons that are not so obvious. Unfortunately, most people - teachers and parents alike - see no further than the obvious.
The immediate, obvious aim of assigning a child homework is to provide that child with [...]
As a parent, it’s important for you to know that homework really does make a difference in your children’s performance at school. Research tells us that the time spent doing homework directly affects a child’s achievement. This is important information. It tells us that by doing assigned homework, children will increase skills and do better [...]