In early school days not clearly whether homework helps children to study well or not. In a common understanding, homework can help them to set knowledge gained at school and to learn to operate time. You can help the child with homework, having allocated time and space.
Bases
Homework can take the different forms. For example, children of younger school age can be asked:
- to do work sheets or longer projects
- to read or write
- to collect interesting objects to share with a class.
Pupils of high school receive different homeworks for different objects more often. It can be mathematical tasks, written tasks, research projects, practical or creative tasks and so on.
The academic advantages house rabotyv early school days are not present accurate proofs that homework helps children to study at school well. As children become more senior, homework has the academic advantages - there is close connection between homework and progress of children at high school.
Others preimushchestvav whole homework can help the child:
- to practice and improve skills which he studies in a class
- to be ready to work next day
- to work on longer research or creative projects
- to learn management of time and organizing skills, such as work on time and finding of balance between work and a game.
Homework is also useful for parents - it gives you the chance to see what the child studies at school. Manifestation of interest in homework of your child is a great way to let it know that you appreciate training and education.
We do homework
Find suitable time. It is the best of all for some children to perform homework shortly after they return from school. Another can the break is required to play and have a rest before beginning homework. Small children can concentrate approximately for 15 minutes before they need a short break. Even the senior children need breaks. You can induce the child to do neck extensions, to shake hands and to move with fingers. You can motivate the child to do homework, setting a limit of time for homework and allocating time for the fact that he likes to watch, for example, TV or to play in the street when he finishes.
Create the correct situation. The good idea - to place the child in such place where there is a good lighting, air and is enough place for books, handles and other things. Younger children more likely will work in domestic surroundings, for example, at a kitchen table better while the senior children, most likely, need the own quiet place. When your child performs homework, try to minimize the distracting factors, having switched off the TV and having asked younger brothers and sisters to play somewhere else. You can also ask children of advanced age to leave the mobile phones at you while they do homework, or to agree that they cannot use the mobile phones, laptops, computers or tablets, to watch video or to play games until homework is finished.
Help the child to become organized. You can show to the child how to break big tasks or projects for smaller, more operated tasks. The scheduler of homework or the application for planning that they could see when tasks are appointed can be useful to children of advanced age.
Help to develop positive approach. School lessons are not always easy. Your task is to help to develop positive approach to the academic and organizational tasks. If the child avoids tests, suggest it to break tasks into those which he considers lungs, and those which it finds difficult. If there are difficulties with a certain task, you can help it to approach a problem positively, having forced it to define precisely that he considers difficult. So you can think over in common some decisions, having weighed everything for and against various options to find the best. It is often difficult for children to begin projects or to think out the ideas. Perhaps, you will manage to start everything from scratch, helping your child to break projects into smaller parts or to plan steps.
Be a trainer. When it comes to homework, it can help you to be the trainer of your child. You can organize suitable time, a situation and approach to doing homework, but work performance finally is a duty of your child. To be a trainer means that you sometimes have to allow the child "to fail", but you remember that they study both on failures, and on progress.
Work with the teacher
Try to establish friendly labor relations with the teacher of your child . Thus, you can talk easily with each other about school and homeworks. If you have doubts concerning homework, you should talk to the teacher at an early stage, but not to allow a problem grow. Problems about which have to know the teacher include the following:
- Spends too much time for homework. Learn, what is the time other children in a class of your child spend for homework. If your child regularly spends on it more than time, talk to the teacher.
- Does not understand work. If this is so, your child can pass concepts of a class. If you let know to the teacher, he can fill these gaps in study during the classes.
- Cannot concentrate. It will help you to learn whether it just is a house problem (perhaps because he overtired), or it also happens in school.
- Problems with one concrete subject. The teacher can offer other approach to a subject. For example, you can use blocks for addition and subtraction, or there is a set of fascinating educational online games which perfectly will be suitable for children of advanced age.
Volume of tasks for the house
There are no tough rules. In the first years at some schools do not give any homework, except reading. Some schools and also different teachers at schools give much more homeworks, than others. More homework not always means higher level of progress, especially at elementary school. If you feel that your school student has too much homework, you can talk to the teacher. On the contrary, if you feel that your child does not receive enough homeworks or does not receive at all, you can independently conduct training. For example, you can read together, write stories or letters, to investigate interesting subjects or to plan the budget for a family action.