Homework+Help+Strategies+for+Parents

HOMEWORK HELP FOR PARENTS Here are some tips to help your child with homework:
 * Set up a specific place to study that is well lighted, quiet, but not too isolated, comfortable, with appropriate chair and table, equipped with materials- paper, pencils, pens, erasers, sharpener, clock, and or computer.
 * Set aside a regular time for homework or make a schedule or the week so that parents or children can fill in activities, study periods, dinner time, recreation, and bedtime for each school day.
 * Be supportive and give appropriate help. Parents should not do their children's homework, but parents can engage in problem solving with them, guide them, and help them over the rough spots.
 *  Condiser your child's learning style. Does the child learn best through seeing, hearing, or manipulating the material?
 * Talk about the assignments. Does the child understand the homework? What does the child need in order to complete the work?
 * Help the child structure the time and assignment, and help the child get started. Recgnized that the responsibility for completeing the homework belongs to the student.
 * Show interest in and encourage the child's efforts.
 * Be a parent who is both loveing and firm.
 * Refer the child to a homework hot line or Web site to get an explanantion of the assignment if needed.
 * Please contact the teacher if further help is needed.