How To Help Your Child With Homework: For Parents of Elementary and Junior High School Children
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword 3
Homework: A Concern for the Whole Family 5
The Basics 6
How To Help: Show You Think Education
and Homework Are Important 8
How To Help: Monitor Assignments 11
How To Help: Provide Guidance 13
How To Help: Talk With Someone at School
To Resolve Problems Resources 18
Checklist for Helping Your Child With Homework 24
The National Education Goals 25
FOREWORD
Families play a vital role in educating America's children. What families do is more important to student success than whether they are rich or poor, whether parents have finished high school or not, or whether children are in elementary, junior high, or high school.
Yet, for all that common sense and research tell us, family involvement often remains neglected in the debate about American school reform. To focus more attention on this important subject, the U.S. Congress recently added to an initial list of six National Education Goals another that states:
Every school will promote partnerships that will increase parental involvement and participation in promoting the social, emotional, and academic growth of children.
The Office of Educational Research and Improvement has produced Helping Your Child With Homework to contribute to the drive to increase family involvement in children's learning. As the handbook points out we know that children who spend more time on homework, on average, do better in school, and that the academic benefits increase as children move into the upper grades.
But the value of homework extends beyond school. We know that good assignments, completed successfully, can help children develop wholesome habits and attitudes. Homework can help parents learn about their children's education and communicate both with their children and the schools. And it can encourage a lifelong love of learning.
In addition to helping with homework, there are many other important ways that parents can help their children learn. Parents can encourage children to spend more leisure time reading than watching television. They can talk with their children and communicate positive behaviors, values, and character traits. They can keep in touch with the school. And they can express high expectations for children and encourage their efforts to achieve.
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