Goal
Teach your child to be successful at doing homework. This means completing homework on a consistent basis, and learning to learn independently
homework
All parents want their child to be successful at doing homework. You might believe that homework is more important than all of the other skills listed in the previous Content Pages. You might want to assist your child with homework before you work on any of the other Content pages.
Before you focus your attention on homework, take a deep breath. Your first priority is to be a parent. That means that you know, love, and care for your child. Only after that can you be your child’s teacher. Successful teaching starts with all of the other Content Pages in this website. Only after that can you be truly successful at teaching your child how to do homework. This point is so important that it will be repeated here: Your child needs to have good sleeping and eating habits, know and follow a schedule, and understand and comply with rules, before your child will be successful with homework. Your child also needs to experience success at socializing, which can help them to do homework.
Your success at teaching your child homework skills will be much lower without first addressing the skills listed in all of the other Content Pages. Read the other sections on this page to understand why.
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Teach your child to gather all of the materials and information needed to do homework successfully
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Teach your child to sustain motivation for homework and for learning, by creating a consistent place for homework, and by scheduling both the timing and the amount of time that results in the best outcome for your child
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Teach your child to solve their own homework problems
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Teach these skills if you and your child have mastered the skills listed above:
Teach reading, writing, and math skills
Teach academic content areas that go beyond reading, writing, and math.
Teach your child to solve their own learning problems using a variety of resources.
Next steps
You have reached the end of the last Content Page of the IEP for Home. I hope that your journey has been informative. I also hope that you will keep coming back to the Content Pages, the Stumbling Blocks Pages, and to the Resources pages. The IEP for Home will continue to be useful to you as your child progresses through school. Whatever you and your child are not able to master now, maybe you can master next year. Keep reviewing the goals and objectives. Enhance your child’s skills. Help your child reach their potential and their fullest independence. And, contact us here: iepforhome@gmail.com