Monday, April 27, 2009

Homework Strategies

There are numerous strategies that can be used at home to connect classroom learning to home learning:

1. meet with teacher after school to discuss specific goals for homework in conjunction with general goals for the classroom

2. integrate all family members into child's learning at home: reading to siblings, reading to parents, parents reading to siblings etc

3. differentiated learning can be incorporated into homework, by giving harder or easier worksheets,  and activities that are tailored to the student's needs 

4. weekly newsletters that the students help create to show their progress in the classroom, and then weekly notes from the parents back to the teachers, to show the child's progress at home

5. READ, READ, READ! incorporate reading any way possible

6. if note taking is part of the homework, provide different ways to show that knowledge gained from the text through activities in addition to the notes

These are just a few examples.  There are many other options.

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